Throttle Position During Acceleration and its effect on FE

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Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Speaking of testing, what would be a valid way to test low load vs high load (low RPM) acceleration?

I would think you'd also want to find best acceleration to cruising speed, and also best acceleration to codfishing.

Pick a preset distance say between 1/2-1 mile and accelerate to cruise speed from a stop and at the end point hit the scan gauge and see what the amount is.

Although mine is an automatic I found that to accelerate to cruise speed the amount of fuel difference is very small but the best for me was to accelerate at WOT to 35 MPH and then reduce to 60% load for the rest of the acceleration. Matching what the folks at BMW came up with. Now if traffic would only allow that.