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Old 01-04-2010, 01:01 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I'm working on driving habits however I drive mostly highway with cruise on.
IIRC Wisconsin has a lot of rolling hills. If that's your highway drive, you can probably increase your mpg by dropping the cruise control, and learning to roller-coaster the hills a bit. That is, you let your speed drop a bit going up - cruise control would give more gas to try to keep a constant speed uphill - then pick up speed on the downhills. This also could help with your AT shift points.

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Old 01-04-2010, 06:57 AM   #12 (permalink)
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A block heater will help with the over rich warm up as well.
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I'd be interested to see that flat underbody. I drive a minivan of a different make, and my underbody is far from flat with exhaust, suspension, fuel tank, crossmembers...

A belly pan is definitely on my list of improvements to do. I've done a temporary grill block, and will be doing a more permanent one. But adjusting the nut has, without a doubt, been the biggest factor in my mileage gains.
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you might want to check out the seminars and mods list to see what mods have done to other vehicles like yours.

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