How to Monitor Lean Burn in a Civic VX- Video

[OG VX]

Hello all,
I made this video today, in case anyone could benefit from it. I'm sharing now I use a vacuum guage (main focus) and MPGuino to monitor Lean Burn on a 92-95 Civic VX. I also talk about gear selection.

Hope this can help some of you save some fuel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_OJ...ature=youtu.be

[firehawk618]

Thanks for posting the great video.

I would like to add that in the HX your principals still apply, actually probably any car however the HX has a most definite LB engagement.

You can be cruising at 60mph, getting xx.xx indicated mpg, vacuum gauge ~15 then suddenly when it kicks in your indicated mpg will jump up substantially and your foot will go down on the accelerator just to maintain your 60mph and the vacuum gauge will go down as low as 3.

As Chryslerkid put it, it feels like a parachute deployed behind your car. Very very true.

This pretty much confirms what I have suspected that the VX and HX are totally different animals as far as ECU logic goes.

The funny thing is with ScanGauge or Ultragauge your MPG will indicate a huge DROP when in LB because it calculates MPG off RPM's, LOD and probably the MAP sensor.

My MPGuino is still in transit. Once it's here I will also post a video of the HX's behavior.

[AbramWagner]

Good vid, I need to get a vac gauge. I'm constantly wondering which gear is better going up hills.