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Old 11-27-2008, 04:16 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Personally, I don't think it'll work any better than laying off boost anyway. A couple of days ago, I drove up to the suburbs of Chicago on Stage 1-91. All highway. I got about 60 or miles before the gas gauge even budged from full. Of course, the gauge is severely non-linear up at the top, but it still seemed good.
OK, well I decided to go against my own logic and actually use the Cobb Econo map to test for gas mileage improvement (if any) on my long, arduous trip from Indiana to New Jersey. I filled up three times on the way there. Tank #1 used Cobb Econo and the second tank #2 used Cobb Stage 1-91. Tank #3 continued on Stage 1-91, but is still partially full.

Both tanks #1 and #2 both experienced 75-80mph speeds. Tank #1 contained flat terrain while Tank #2 contained mountainous terrain with many hills and valleys.

OK, the results are as follows:

Tank #1 (Cobb Econo) - 340mi - 26.3mpg
Tank #2 (Stage 1-91) - 342mi - 26.6mpg

Results? I think it's pretty self-explanitory. Cobb Econo map simply does not work, at all. In fact, given the terrain in which Stage 1-91 experienced, it is worse.
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