imported_mugenpowered

I was reading the September 2006 issue of Motor Trend and it has ten tips for saving fuel.
There are the usual tips like not driving too fast on the highway, good tire pressure, regular maintenance, no junk in the trunk, etc.

But one tip sounds weird:

"FLOOR IT TO SAVE GAS
Cracking the throttle wide open reduces pumping losses and improves efficiency, but only at low revs (2000 and below), which means this works only on manual-transmission cars or manumatics that won't downshift. It also won't work on turbocharged or supercharged engines. But for all the others, using full throttle and shifting early (so you're not accelerating any harder) is the smart bet."

I always thought flooring it was dumping more fuel, and thus, giving worse fuel economy?
So is this something that people do a lot?
I have never heard about it, but maybe I'm just a n00b, lol.

imported_My93Civic

Logically the way most of us have known that "flooring it" means = waste fuel faster.

So Im not sure what to say. I dont think flooring it makes sense though.

Cynikal.Mindset

so basically they are saying to get into a high gear as quick as possible and floor it...most imports dont cruise at or around 2000rpm so I dont know how this is gonna work maybe on domestics etc but I dunno...I'm confused still

nrg3k

This actually makes alot of sense. I hooked up an ODB2 scanner to my car (scangauge) that shows 'throtttle position'. The value is always lower than 100% while the car accels, but increases with RPM. This suggest EFI prevents a 'floored' peddle from actually dumping gas into the engine.

DJM:>

imported_plzbeleiveit

but then again your getting further faster meaning more kms at a faster rate.

00project

maybe what they mean is, floor it to cruising speed so u can release accelerator while coasting...