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    Gas Mileage

    It's no different than your favorite sports team trying to improve its roster. It's meritocracy. It's not even really that bad of a thing. Everyone knows the places that do it and just because you didn't work out at MegaCorp working on bleeding edge technology, doesn't mean you can't be a...
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    Gas Mileage

    Essentially, they are firing their C students. I don't know about other industries but in software it happens and you can't hide it with BS because everyone on the team knows who the bottom 10% is.
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    Gas Mileage

    How often does the government fire the worst performing 10%? It's common in my industry.
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    Gas Mileage

    He was also a nazi, allegedly. GM did/does it, but not in the US anymore as far as I know. I haven't messed with enabling it on my LS swap, but I could. My point is the barely competent engineers already knew about it and have been doing it since before you were born, and probably even before I...
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    Gas Mileage

    Lean burn definitely saves fuel. That's been known since at least Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic.
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    Gas Mileage

    No, she's rust free on the bottom and I would like to keep it that way. I'm willing to drive those speeds though ... for the sake of science of course.
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    Gas Mileage

    Any C level or better mpg engineers want to get me an extra 5 mpg on my Tahoe? I'll report the 100% truth. Might be a fun forum thing.
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    Gas Mileage

    The implication is that everything is done by people who are just barely competent. I don't think it's correct, except perhaps in government.
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    Gas Mileage

    I just spent 2 weeks interviewing candidates for a mid level programming position. Half these people got an undergraduate degree in India or other foreign country and came over and got a Masters in the US. They all had "A" averages for grad school. Most couldn't answer basic questions. I'd...
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    1988 GMC C1500 - Z06 Package!

    In 2012 the bigger risk was your DoD lifters taking a dump.
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    Gas Mileage

    Do you know the GPA of the engineers who did the work or the amount of time they spent or the amount of validation it required to mass produce a vehicle for US purchase? I don't. It's a lot more effort than one person can do though, I'm confident of that. There are definitely gains you can make...
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    Gas Mileage

    Full parts list: K&N filter Intake Vortex Generator Slick 50 oil treatment E3 spark plugs Magnets on the fuel line "Power conditioner" in the cigarette lighter Removed tailgate
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    1988 GMC C1500 - Z06 Package!

    That sucks, but I guess that was why it was so cheap. Any blind hole really. Someone here broke one of the bosses that holds the spider down doing it.
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    Gas Mileage

    Your basically saying because of broken or worn parts lambda was much less than 1. Ok, that's not surprising. TBI is an old design that isn't as good as current designs, no doubt, but at a steady state rolling down the road it's not going be 5 mpg off.
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    Gas Mileage

    Great post! It takes a X amount of power to go a given speed. You might be able to squeeze out a little efficiency here and there, but does anyone believe GM would leave 5 mpg on the table when they could just run a different air filter or put a different spring in something? It's ridiculous.
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