Throttle Position During Acceleration and its effect on FE

[zpiloto]

I'll throw this out. I have an automatic. I did runs over a 1 mile course with different accelerations rates up to 55 MPH then set the cruise control until hitting the finish line. I did 3 runs a piece in the same direction. I tried WTO, 80% Load on the scangauge, 60% load, and a combination of WTO to 35 then 60% load to 55. The weather was 90 with calm winds.

WTO 24.3 24.7 24.5 AVG 24.5
80% 23.2 23.5 23.7 AVG 23.5
60% 24.2 25.0 24.3 AVG 24.5
WTO-60% 25.1 24.6 24.5 AVG 24.7

Looking at this, which granted will have a lot of errors in it just because it impossible to control the varibles on the open road, the AVG were very close. I think you can do what every traffic will allow and not hurt FE to much.