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Teach me how to drive!
Hello guys.. so after getting this car, I have really been interested in improving my driving. My two main concerns right now are fuel efficient driving and maximium acceleration. Yes, I know those two don't go together but I am interested in improving in both aspects.
For fuel efficiency, how do you guys find you can keep your MPG up? I am getting about 24-25 mpg right now with street and hwy driving. I know that is about right for this car but i'm curious on methods of maybe getting that up. I use 93 octane gas btw, not sure if that affects it. For accelerating, how do you create the most acceleration in the car? I believe it has to do with shifting gears at certain RPM, right? I am a novice obviously... Thanks guys! |
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My eco mode is to shift around 2500 rpm, but I can''t resist to drive slow in this car.
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I use cruise control and 6th gear as much as possible and shift around 3000 RPM.
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For fuel efficiency:
1) When accelerating, be light on the throttle and upshift at 2500-3000 RPM. 2) When cruising, upshift to the highest gear that will keep you above 2000 RPM. 3) Note: if you encounter an incline, downshift to avoid lugging your engine. For maximum acceleration: 1) Downshift into the lowest possible gear that will keep you below 7400 RPM, press the throttle fully, and upshift when the tach hits 7400 RPM. 2) Note: make sure you understand the gearing in the car. If you exceed 7400 RPM on your downshift, there is a good chance you will damage your engine.
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@Jyn raises a good point though. If you're still new at this, you may want to practice upshifting at 7000 RPM until you get the hang of it.
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Do NOT downshift at too high a speed for the gear selected. If you do so you may wreck your engine. There is no protection built in to the car to prevent you from making this mistake (unlike an automatic which usually just beeps at you if you paddle shift down to too low a gear). I'm pretty sure this engine will hold together at 8,000 rpm, maybe only once and I'm only pretty sure. Engines blow up when they are overrevved with the intake valve open on a cylinder. It's the inertia of the piston and connecting rod that breaks the rod or sometimes it's the inertia of the valve and spring that crashes the valve heads into the rising piston, referred to as valve float. Should you ever sense that you've just selected too low a gear as you let in the clutch pedal shove that left foot to the floor immediately and hope you didn't reach the full rpm for that road speed in that gear. You do get some warning even from an engine that likes to rev this much but it is only a split second before the engine is actually driven to excess rpm by the wheels travelling too fast for the gear you thought you wanted. This is a very rev happy engine whatever the press may say about the noise and torque dips etc. It loves to rev and sounds great while doing it. It isn't a lot noisier at 7,000 rpm than it is at 5,000 rpm. Learn to shift up aggressively before you learn to downshift aggressively. Here's the calculated speeds in each gear: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6325 The spread is a little unusual in that you normally expect a mathematical progression. Why Subaru chose to make fourth closer to fifth and fifth closer to sixth than is ideal is puzzling which then makes the spread from 2 nd to 3rd look odd. This may account for the impression that second gear isn't quite tall enough, or first gear isn't short enough depending on whether 0-60 means anything to you or not. Normally you expect the speed differences as you shift up the box to become wider in nominal numbers: 22/24/26/28/30 would be within the expected range and a progression would be even more logical. Also, the steps are 22 mph/26 mph/22 mph /22 mph/ and fifth to sixth is not relevant to the discussion because it will be an "overdrive" deliberately selected for fuel economy, this engine won't pull redline in sixth and that is now very usual. |
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24-25? I usually get 30 and I shift at 3500 for the most part.
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Kinda left of field I know, but I belive the FRS still does not come equiped with the JDM underbody panels? I was wondering how much of an impact they might have on economy if you were to introduce them into the equasion along with lowering the car sligtly.
Still reading through it but found this thread really entertaining and kinda related to your query on improving economy, but from the physical mod rather than driver side of the coin - http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...nderbody+panel |
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Learn to drive better? Whatever you do, do it smoothly. Your passengers will thank you.
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