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Just a few quick notes before we run off to clean the car and hope for some good food:
Abundant torque certainly makes freeway driving more fun.
Dyno testing is great for getting power charts, but all the magic happens on the road. When you are at 6000 feet and it's 0 degrees out, it's just a shade different at 0 feet and 80+ degrees out. Dyno's don't put the load on the engine the road does, either, specially not climbing passes.
Sadly, I've got the cel/idle issue. On real long drives, when come to a stop the exhaust cam no.2 is sticking in full advance. Idles massively rich then. We've been logging it and starting to pinpoint the issue.
Gas mileage doesn't suffer, at 80+ mph, the car with two heavyweights, a full load of gear, and big wide sticky tall tires is still doing doing 28mpg up the passes, and 30+ in the hills. Haven't seen any flat sections in a while...
As Ross puts it - USDM gas sucks.
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