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cow is that possibly only specific to your car? |
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People tend to get hung up on the good BSFC numbers and don't take in account that if you have great BSFC numbers with high load to medium load you will also have higher Torque or HP numbers in which require more fuel to be burned. |
If you have better BSFC and have produced more power, the power hasn't necessarily been wasted; you use the extra work that was done to go further. If you just end up going faster and then braking then you've certainly wasted it.
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That gives me a new tuning challenge; doing as lean of a burn as possible at 75% throttle, while keeping it at about 13.8:1 at 80%, and 13.7 at 80-100%. Anyone in the Portland, OR area want to help with this? |
It's no more fun. You don't go any faster.
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Oh, I do ;) The difference between 25% and 75% is drastic on my car.
I'm concerned that I may get a ticket for "display of speed", or something. Sometimes I have to not give any gas coming from a stop, and always have to slip the clutch a bit, to not spin the tires. At 75% throttle, my car would do the ? mile in about 17 seconds (at 90+%, it does high 13s). I acknowledge that in normal cars, it wouldn't make much difference. My car is far from normal, though. |
If you're going faster, you're doing it wrong. You may not gain a fuel economy improvement; you may in fact lose fuel economy.
I often shift when I've only reached 1200RPM. You may need to go lower than that. The strategy may not be compatible with your car. Experimentation will answer all of these questions for sure. |
Oh.
I get it. I'll try it, and see how it works out. |
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