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      03-18-2008, 02:05 AM   #123
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Originally Posted by 1stnewcar View Post
Interesting - do you know why? how much error there could be etc?
Becuase the MPG is normally calculated by the injector pulse width (open time) for a given fuel pressure. The tuning box fools the ECU to run at a higher pressure but the ECU doesn't see the actual pressure. Running the same injector pulse width at a higher pressure will use more fuel.

Remapping normally ajusts the pulse width keeping the fuel pressure the same so the MPG calc is accurate.

I can't say 100% it's the case with this tuning box but on all the ones i have used before the MPG was 5-15% optimistic. Only way to check is to do a manual calculation.
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