Went on a road trip with my son to Ft Lauderdale yesterday and did a road test of my new Apten Flasher.
Set the 1st program to my custom 93-octane/max mileage program, filled the truck with Mobil 93 gas and drove I75 South to Naples; this leg of the trip was 105 miles. Mileage was 32.9 MPG. This was 74.1 MPH with the cruse control on.
Refilled truck with Shell 87 octane and set the computer to the stock program. Drove 111 miles into Ft Lauderdale. Mileage was 20.8 MPG. The speed was about 75 except the last 21 miles, which were in town, in traffic driving. The shifts seemed to take forever and the truck felt sluggish.
In Ft Lauderdale, we refilled the truck with Shell 87 octane and set the computer to the 87-octane program.
We drove all the way back to Sarasota in this mode, I75 only, average speed was 78.4 MPH. The mileage was 21.4 MPG. The truck felt much more powerful than with the stock program and the shifts were as crisp as with the 93 program.
My son did all of the driving, speed was calculated with GPS. The truck was considered full at the first automatic cut off of the gas pump.
I am befuddled by the 10 MPG difference in the programs. The 32 MPG reading with the 93 octane program is in line with the same mileage I got with the similar program that was in my Apten chip. It is possible that the various fill ups could have been slightly different due to different gas pumps and their cut off points. This was a short preliminary test of the Flasher vs mileage. The test will be done again on an upcoming Atlanta trip where we will run 500 plus miles per tank to determine a more accurate mileage.
I left the truck in the 87 octane program to see how it works out in town.
Highest gas price was $2.24 9 for 87 octane in Naples.