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Old October 18th 07, 10:17 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
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Default Most fuel efficient RPM?

On Oct 17, 8:32 pm, gpsman > wrote:
> On Oct 17, 4:48 pm, " > wrote:
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> > On Oct 17, 4:15 pm, (Timothy J. Lee) wrote:

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> > > In article . com>,

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> > > >What's a reasonable way to determine at what RPM your vehicle gets the
> > > >most mileage per gallon of gas?

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> > > If you have an OBD-II car, plug in an OBD-II scanner that can read out
> > > instantaneous fuel consumption and use it to determine what the fuel
> > > consumption is at various RPMs and speeds.

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> > Good call. It's a 98, so it should be compliant. Of course, I'd need
> > a scanner that will give me the instantaneous fuel consumption. That
> > may cost more than I could ever hope to save in fuel.

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> Eh, maybe just take what you can from this guy's experience:http://www.omninerd.com/articles/Imp...s_Affecting_Fu...
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That was a fairly interesting read, thanks.

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