How to tell if DoD is working?
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Launching!
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How to tell if DoD is working? Just as it says... I'm trying to gauge how much I actually use this. I drive 54 miles of interstate, 30 miles of highway and the rest city/ country road.
However I still only average 20 mpg. The open road has some elevation changes and whatnot...
Basically if I rarely use it, I'm getting rid of it.
However I still only average 20 mpg. The open road has some elevation changes and whatnot...
Basically if I rarely use it, I'm getting rid of it.
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Your mileage should be higher than that...unless you're dragging. I've gotten high 20's at 65-70 on cruise. We average 22 with town and climbing the "summit" everyday on way to work.
Get ahold of Lew (06MonteSS) to tune. That'll help big time.
Thanks,
Tom
Get ahold of Lew (06MonteSS) to tune. That'll help big time.
Thanks,
Tom
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I recently (400 miles ago) had Lew write me up a tune to turn the system off. In comparision to the old tune he wrote for me (which kept it in V4 mode more often than stock), I am getting ~12% less mileage, or the equivalent of paying $0.35 more a gallon. I will run it for a few thousand miles and see where it ends up at before I decide to keep it tuned out or not. I run a lot of highway miles, so the results of someone who runs around town more often may be very different.
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I do all city driving and average 13.9 mpg,but when I cruise the fwy I get about 20-21 mpg...But my car hardly see the fwy,lol...
I average at least 230 mile on a full tank,and I still have DOD ...
I average at least 230 mile on a full tank,and I still have DOD ...
18.8 average for the last year, almost entirely stop-and-go city driving, but with a couple of miles of freeway thrown in. (Based on my last fill, the Legacy gets 22.5 for the same commute.)
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gxp's do NOT have the 4/8 cyl mode indicator in the DIC...
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I gained 2mpg since I disabled my DOD 4.5 years ago...
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2014 Camaro 2SS/RS - LS3, 6-speed manual, short-throw performance shifter, NPP dual-mode performance exhaust, 1LE front splitter, ZL1 rockers, Z28 Rear Spoiler, all paint-matched Red Rock Metallic, BMR strut tower brace, Cold Air Inductions cold air intake, Apex Motorsports, Inc. catch-can, Custom DiabLew Tune
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I recently (400 miles ago) had Lew write me up a tune to turn the system off. In comparision to the old tune he wrote for me (which kept it in V4 mode more often than stock), I am getting ~12% less mileage, or the equivalent of paying $0.35 more a gallon. I will run it for a few thousand miles and see where it ends up at before I decide to keep it tuned out or not. I run a lot of highway miles, so the results of someone who runs around town more often may be very different.
if you don't then it will hurt you...
my driving is 50/50 town/highway driving... and for me, the DOD hurt...
as I mentioned, I gained 2mpg after I disabled it...
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2014 Camaro 2SS/RS - LS3, 6-speed manual, short-throw performance shifter, NPP dual-mode performance exhaust, 1LE front splitter, ZL1 rockers, Z28 Rear Spoiler, all paint-matched Red Rock Metallic, BMR strut tower brace, Cold Air Inductions cold air intake, Apex Motorsports, Inc. catch-can, Custom DiabLew Tune
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lower octane burns faster... as such, it doesn't get a chance to burn all of the fuel, it's more of a flash ignition... so you don't get the most efficient use/performance of all the fuel, since it's not all being burned...
higher octane burns slower, so it's considered more efficient, since more of the fuel is actually being used/burned to provide performance...
so yes, you'd probably get better mileage with a higher octane fuel...
higher octane burns slower, so it's considered more efficient, since more of the fuel is actually being used/burned to provide performance...
so yes, you'd probably get better mileage with a higher octane fuel...
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Just as it says... I'm trying to gauge how much I actually use this. I drive 54 miles of interstate, 30 miles of highway and the rest city/ country road.
However I still only average 20 mpg. The open road has some elevation changes and whatnot...
Basically if I rarely use it, I'm getting rid of it.
However I still only average 20 mpg. The open road has some elevation changes and whatnot...
Basically if I rarely use it, I'm getting rid of it.
I was amazed at how much it is actually on, and how often it goes on and off without being able to feel it. On cruise it is pretty invisible.
And I notice between 2-4 mpg higher with DoD on, on the highway.
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On the way in to work I tried to pay more attention and keep speeds a little lower (I typically run interstate at 80) and I did notice it on a lot more just by looking at the instant display.
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Any chance you could send a quick how to on the LED?
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I took a trip from New Jersey to Maryland...Deeeeep in Maryland and it was about 90% highway. I hardly gunned it and kept it on cruise control at about 65-70 mph range. When i stopped at a local Sunoco on the way back, i put 25 bucks premium in it which filled it up and i got 330 miles on the tank. All in all, for a daily driver, this car is very good if you have the DoD on and if you do alot of highway driving.