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Old 06-19-2012, 05:17 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by wheee! View Post
ECON stands for economy and will tune the car for best gas mileage.

I was hoping for a little in-depth info on how the Econ map was different than stock.

I was also secretly hoping it did not just put the throttle into some "keep your foot out of it stupid" limp mode, but rather tweaked Fuel/air, or valve timing to squeeze more push out at the expense of torque and horse power in the lower rpm ranges.


perhaps I should just go out and get a tuner license from uprev and start tweaking. If I come up with something mind blowing I'll be sure to post it here and on the Prius forums lol.
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