Hi Stevo12886:
___Drafting isn’t the key. The culmination of everything is. Use a draft only when it is to your advantage or when all else fails like a 20 + miles per hour wind down the nose. At other times, it will usually cost you mileage unless it’s a perfect draft and that is very rarely available.
___As for oil, make sure you pick up Mobil1 Synthetic. It has lower cold and warm viscosities for the same weight oil.
___Warm air mods aren’t going to help a Corolla that much. An Insight won’t allow lean burn in 40 degrees F or lower temperatures. Warm air mods get you above 40 degrees AIT for lean burn in almost any temperature … up to a point. Cold air helps HP, warm air helps efficiency. The fuel/air mixture is atomized better in warmer temperatures. Don’t bother because it is probably already warm enough in your locale anyway.
___No LRR ratings are listed anywhere that I know of. The GoodYear Integrity’s are perfect for a high mileage driver in a Corolla. They are inexpensive, long lasting, quiet, and have to be a LRR tire or they wouldn’t be on the 04 Prius.
___When driving with load, stay in the right lane. Let’s start at the approach of an overpass. You are at a steady 55 miles per hour. You begin to climb the overpass. Do not push your foot down further. Keep it exactly where it is or let off just slightly to exaggerate the new found method. By the time you have climbed to the top of the overpass, your speed should be down to 52 - 53 miles per hour. Now on the downside, keep your foot on the accelerator at exactly the same position. By the time you are on the bottom of the slope, you should be at ~ 55 miles per hour again. Without a game gauge, you won’t see what your fuel economy is doing so just trust me on this one. This is called driving with load. You are locking in a given mpg, not a given speed. I drive in sometimes congested traffic on the Chicago Tollway. Even in light congestion, there is enough room for you to allow the Corolla to slow down and speed up as necessary. After you get used to this 55 to 52/53 and back up to 55 again on an overpass or slight hill, it will begin to become natural to you. A bit longer of a hill and you may be at 50 miles per hour on the top. If you happen to drive mountain pass, slow down to match the speed of the slowest driver. If there is a truck, van, or small car struggling along at 30 miles per hour, you should be as well. Climbing is actually working against gravity and the faster you climb, the harder you work. Acceleration via the ICE is a fuel killer. Just slow down to a reasonable speed and stay there. If the car shifts down, slow down but you don’t want to slow down to a crawl as your engines RPM is to fast for a given distance traveled. You still want some RPM to keep the intake open as opposed to choked down. After a time, this method will become as natural as driving with cruise.
___Good Luck
___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
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Waynegerdes@earthlink.net
That is just the size of the document for all posts into that particular forum. My longest was probably over 5 pages or so in one of the Home Theater Computer forums …
