34 mpg!?!?
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34 mpg!?!?
I recently supercharged my car and rolled off the dyno last Tuesday. 
The car is bone stock other than the ECS system with the Paxton charger and a Speed Density tune that was sent by ECS and tweeked by G.R.E.A.D tuning out of suthern Indiana. I was very happy with the results even with the 110,000 miles on the car. I set out for my 3.5 to 4 hour trip to Pidgeon Forge TN for the Rod Run car show last Friday and as I was leaving I filled up with gas and reset my fuel milage on the display. I was so happy when I arrived in TN with the 34 mpg. (and fyi, I am 22 years old and yes I wanted to hear the bov several times with a few 6k rpm pulls) I was happy and yet skeptical so I reset it on my way back, taking it easy at first, I went almost 100 miles and was show 37.5 mpg until I ran into a Maserati on the interstate. 
I was still able to arrive back home with the 34.x mpg on the dash! I didn't get the pen and paper out to verify it this time but on numerous times before the car has been spot on, within 1 or 2 mpg!
The car is bone stock other than the ECS system with the Paxton charger and a Speed Density tune that was sent by ECS and tweeked by G.R.E.A.D tuning out of suthern Indiana. I was very happy with the results even with the 110,000 miles on the car. I set out for my 3.5 to 4 hour trip to Pidgeon Forge TN for the Rod Run car show last Friday and as I was leaving I filled up with gas and reset my fuel milage on the display. I was so happy when I arrived in TN with the 34 mpg. (and fyi, I am 22 years old and yes I wanted to hear the bov several times with a few 6k rpm pulls) I was happy and yet skeptical so I reset it on my way back, taking it easy at first, I went almost 100 miles and was show 37.5 mpg until I ran into a Maserati on the interstate. I was still able to arrive back home with the 34.x mpg on the dash! I didn't get the pen and paper out to verify it this time but on numerous times before the car has been spot on, within 1 or 2 mpg!
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Ok Thanks! I meant to put this in the form of a question but I see I didn't lol. I will do that and see what the true numbers are because I thought this was crazy high numbers.
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injectors over 63.5 pounds will cause the DIC to be off, if below, it will be spot on if the tune is right.
09 and up c6's will be spot on up to 127lbs.
-Carl
09 and up c6's will be spot on up to 127lbs.
-Carl
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and.... Injectors up to 52 #, for 2006 & 2007 E38 ECMS will read spot of if they don't have a scaled tune from Edelbrock.
2008+ goes to 63.5 #
2009+ go to 127 #
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On a recent 110 mile highway ride to Atlantic City in a Cartek Pro Charged/blower cammed C6 Z06 (not my car) I saw over 30mpg at 70+mph on the DIC but I too assume that it might not have been entirely accurate. 
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I'm running 27-28 on the highway at 75. High teens in the city. So I'd guess a 22-23 average.
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nope even with 60's the DIC is 17 percent over
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