First full tank with ScanGauge!

[ThermionicScott]

Just had my third full tank with the SG. I had hoped to wait until March for this fill, since my ideal is to have one (or less) fill per month, but the gas light came on while driving home last night. Annoyingly, the pump I used this morning kept clicking off early, so I had to manually finesse it the whole way. So it's a little suspect.

Got 25.9 MPG by my usual math. Hard to say whether that's due to my driving technique, our ridiculously warm weather, or that pump, but I'll take it.

The ScanGauge only figured that I'd used 9.1 gallons of gas, so I took the opportunity to adjust it all the way to the actual value of 12. Even if that's too far, I'd rather have slightly pessimistic, than optimistic, MPG readouts while driving.

On a sad note, my car seems to be rusting apart faster and faster. The holes in the wheel arches keep growing and joining, and I'm concerned that I won't be able to use the factory jack next time I need to change a wheel. I may not get a chance to kill this EJ22 before the body falls apart.

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by skyking

I don't allocate time for that "going back" thing, when we have a great repository of working mods here.

+1

Thanks to EM we don't have to reinvent the wheel. We just read about highly successful wheels, come up with appropriate implementations and then tweak. We've had some people document great work here, really amazing stuff.

[puddleglum]

ThermionicScott, congrats on the improvement. Sounds like you and I have a bit in common, a short commute in winter weather and a car that's disintegrating from rust. Anything you can do to help it warm up faster and stay warm will help you. With the SG you can keep a close eye on temp so you can potentially block the airflow a lot more than you can by just using a factory temp gauge. I've got mine pretty heavily insulated now and I may go even further for next winter. We are in a deep freeze again and I'm still seeing fair numbers.
As for the SG calibration, it takes a while to get it right and even then it's only close. I found when I had it in my other car, winter to summer fuel made a big difference in calibration. I find it is a big help though and feel lost without it now.