Best gas saving mods
4th Gear Member
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,088
From: Shelbyville, Indiana
I"m confused. According to your garage you installed 4.10 gears. Why did you put in 4.10s if gas mileage was an issue?
But if gas mileage is important there are techniques to use to improve it but you have to drive like your grandmother in order to do them.
1. Be very easy on the throttle. Throttle movement uses gas.
2. Keep rpms below 2000. Rpms use gas.
3. Coast up to lights and stops signs with a nice easy stop barely using your brakes.
4. Attempt to keep a nice constant speed. This usually involve driving below the speed limit so that you do not rush up on traffic and have to use your brakes.
5. If you are driving in hills, let the car speed up going down hill and slow down going up hill. This is the exact opposite that cruise control does.
There are other techniques but since I don't follow any of them I can't remember what they are. My favorite driving technique is throttle to the floor with rubber burning results.
But if gas mileage is important there are techniques to use to improve it but you have to drive like your grandmother in order to do them.
1. Be very easy on the throttle. Throttle movement uses gas.
2. Keep rpms below 2000. Rpms use gas.
3. Coast up to lights and stops signs with a nice easy stop barely using your brakes.
4. Attempt to keep a nice constant speed. This usually involve driving below the speed limit so that you do not rush up on traffic and have to use your brakes.
5. If you are driving in hills, let the car speed up going down hill and slow down going up hill. This is the exact opposite that cruise control does.
There are other techniques but since I don't follow any of them I can't remember what they are. My favorite driving technique is throttle to the floor with rubber burning results.
4th Gear Member
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,306
From: New York
there are mods you can do to get it down. Make sure your AFR is correct for idle/cruse, running around rich under those conditions can kill mileage. I believe anything that improves volumetric efficiency (VE) closer to 100% will help mileage. Those are all bolts on basically, your intake, exhaust, UDP maybe, etc (minus cams and gears for the most part). Having the correct TB helps to, under low loads if you have a 78mm set up the velocity charge will be very low and not atomize the fuel as well.
The velocity charge is like momentum of a wheel, because if you dont change the intake port the same air velocity would go through it at steady state (flow rate the same assuming no leaks)
Biggest one people will say is the gas pedal mod, baby it and itll return the favor (in mileage, not fun, haha)
Hope that helped
The velocity charge is like momentum of a wheel, because if you dont change the intake port the same air velocity would go through it at steady state (flow rate the same assuming no leaks)
Biggest one people will say is the gas pedal mod, baby it and itll return the favor (in mileage, not fun, haha)
Hope that helped
