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Originally Posted by baddog671
LOL, you guys beating me for using the term "drift". Can you imagine a metro "drifting"??? I've always used that term, but I'll keep that in mind now that the japanese culture has overthrown our own...
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It's not Japanese culture, they just made it popular.
Oyea, and using the brakes to drift (sliding sideways) doesn't work well at all. it's actually quite difficult to manage that many pedals, somewhat counter productive, and totally unnecessary. If the brakes are used at all, it's to shift the weight to help initiate.
as for the actual subject of the thread, any opening of the throttle plate out of idle will increase fuel flow thus, any coasting faster than the car would travel in gear at idle will result in fuel savings. Pretty easy to manage since most of our FE minded cars have piddly little toys for an engine and won't keep the car moving at idle in higher gears.
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