Throwing a 6mt in neutral while driving to save gas?
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when you are off the throttle in gear the ecu goes into fuel cut (0 inj. p/w). If you coast it has to maintain idle thus using fuel. That being said, you drive a g what do you care about fuel economy. Im lucky to get 10 or 15 mpg average around town lol and my 240 averages about 5. Downshifting wont wear out your clutch if you are good at rev matching.
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I think folks are over thinking this. If gas mileage is the issue just do slow starts and shift at the lowest rpms without bogging the engine (there is a sweet spot). I doubt anything you do coming to a stop makes much difference. I usually do it the way 'monteitis' describes but sometimes I'll coast with it in gear and use any engine compression there is. But that's just 'normal' driving. I rarely coast with the clutch in or downshift to slow the car unless I'm on a downhill slope (mountains) and then only rarely.
I get 19-20 around town, 25 mixed driving. Car has 77k miles on it.
I don't know anything about racing but at least on road courses I've heard that a good driver is always on the gas or on the brakes. So downshifting for compression slowing seems redundant....but again...I know nothing about racing.
I get 19-20 around town, 25 mixed driving. Car has 77k miles on it.
I don't know anything about racing but at least on road courses I've heard that a good driver is always on the gas or on the brakes. So downshifting for compression slowing seems redundant....but again...I know nothing about racing.
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I usually just leave it in gear... say I'm in 4th gear and I need to stop at a traffic light ahead: I'll just slow down gradually and pop it out of gear when the rpms dip to around 1k. Changing brake pads is so easy, and you'll still only have to do it once in a blue moon.
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