Using DFCO to increase your MPG

[pawsplus]

Alrighty! Thanks!

Oh, and I'm assuming that my goal is to stay around 2000 rpms, right? I.e., upshift before it gets TOO far beyond that?

[BailOut]

Originally Posted by pawsplus

Alrighty! Thanks!

Oh, and I'm assuming that my goal is to stay around 2000 rpms, right? I.e., upshift before it gets TOO far beyond that?

High RPMs don't hurt much when you're in DFCO. I routinely go a little above 4k RPM while in DFCO in the mountains.

[Loren]

Originally Posted by pawsplus

Alrighty! Thanks!

Oh, and I'm assuming that my goal is to stay around 2000 rpms, right? I.e., upshift before it gets TOO far beyond that?

If you're upshifting, you're not in DFCO at all because you're accelerating. That's a topic for another thread.

If you're decelerating/coasting in DFCO, simply don't bother to downshift unless your revs get below 1500.

My typical DFCO maneuver is to just stay in 5th to about 2k or so (I don't really look at the tach), and then skip 4th and downshift to 3rd for the majority of a decel. If I can stretch it further (the light ahead of me is red, or traffic isn't moving), I might grab 2nd and try to maintain enough momentum to stay in 2nd and never have to stop or downshift to 1st if I can avoid it.

The short version of that is: Always coast for as long as possible in DFCO, and always try to time your position within traffic to maintain as much momentum as you can and avoid slowing/stopping unnecessarily.