Well, in my estimation, it will need more testing to be conclusive, but after a 215.6 mile trip it gets roughly the same mileage it got before installing this device
. I guess I didn't have quite the art of positive thinking
Here is what I did notice. Ironically when I first started my drive this morning I was getting roughly just over 15mpg with about a half a tank (which is LOWER than what I usually get). I got to a gas station with about 30 miles left to empty and filled up. I messed with the "baseline" case here for an experiment so technically the results after are skewed. When I filled the tank I put in fuel injector cleaner because it was time for some more. By the time I made it the rest of the way to my destination (roughly 50 miles) I was up to 16.4 mpg (however, that is typically roughly what I got before this device). Not bad for having my roof rack on doing my normal driving of anywhere from 70-75mph though ( I wanted to stay with my "normal" driving conditions so as not to will it good like yoda said
) I did notice improvements up to close to 17mpg on stretches of my trip where the speed limit was lower and thus I expected better mpg anyway.
On the return 108 miles of the trip I was up to 17.1 mpg at one point for quite a while, but then dropped down to 16.4 by the time my trip ended. I also kept the speed closer to 70mph in the 65mph zones, so this also somewhat explains the slightly better mpg avgs. All mpg numbers were taken from the car's mpg estimator, so it may or may not be completely accurate, but que sera.
So I'm going to test it for a couple more tanks, but so far as everyone on here pretty much expected, "snake oil"!
I do think it was worth the try (not the money, but it was only $15 so no big loss I guess), but here is my question:
Isn't this kind of how those throttle body spacers are suppose to work? And if so, what have people had for performance and mpg gains/ losses with a throttle body spacer kit? Part of the reason I experimented with this device is it was a lot cheaper than "trying" a throttle body spacer and it does what I would consider close to the same thing.
Thoughts?
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