5280tunage
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Quick response on my towing adventure and a tune. Everything went great as far as the tune and tranny were concerned, no issues there at all. The only major issues I had were wind related and sway. the trailer was equipped with a really nice anti-sway hitch and let me tell you, the first actual bit of sway scared the crud out of me. I instantly knew the electronic sway prevention and the mechanical sway prevention were fighting each other. I had to pull over on the highway and shut off the electronic sway control and bam, it was night and day.
the other issue was fuel, the way there we did pretty good, averaged about 12mpg doing around 65-70, with a monstrous 6500lb dry weight trailer. Of course, it helps that we lost about 3k feet of elevation too. But the way back was miserable, we had major winds (in fact they closed I80/I76 for a bit to high profile vehicles) with alternating winds at 30+ mph. couple the wind and the elevation gain, I was down to around 6.5mpg and the engine was effectively at 3k rpm all the time just trying to stay at around 55mph. Terrible!
It's not often I feel like the expy is small!
the other issue was fuel, the way there we did pretty good, averaged about 12mpg doing around 65-70, with a monstrous 6500lb dry weight trailer. Of course, it helps that we lost about 3k feet of elevation too. But the way back was miserable, we had major winds (in fact they closed I80/I76 for a bit to high profile vehicles) with alternating winds at 30+ mph. couple the wind and the elevation gain, I was down to around 6.5mpg and the engine was effectively at 3k rpm all the time just trying to stay at around 55mph. Terrible!
It's not often I feel like the expy is small!