Ripster wrote:
Yes we have pretty well discussed this on the GDE site, they are unable to completely
correct the EVIC error in miles per gallon, and it is 4-6 mile per gallon off. So if you get
a 37 mpg EVIC you are at about 31-32 real time hand calculated. You realistically
get a 3-5 mpg improvement city and hwy from what you currently get. And many
conditions, tires, lifts, brakes hanging on and not releasing. Lots of factors come
into play. I get high Evic numbers, but generally on a trip I can do 30mpg solid and
the other benefits, well it just makes it a very nice machine now.
After chatting with the folks at GDE about the tune the other day, they've come up with a way to make the EVIC a little better. (mine is due in the mail this afternoon, so we'll see). Essentially what it boils down to is that the EVIC calculates mileage based on the odo feed (sensor in the rear diff) and the number of times the injectors are firing. The tricky bit is that the injector fire count yields a different overall work (i.e. amount your rig moves) depending on things like speed, gear, load, if it's warm or not, if you are driving uphill or down, etc... SO, give that the EVIC is a linear function (higher-degree variables for all that other stuff) GDE picked a value for the math that was closer to what their tune yielded. It probably still won't be accurate since the measurement is fundamentally flawed, but it should be better than the first few versions of the tune.
Dan
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