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I live in the N Dallas/Plano area...so traffic is nuts around here. I have about a 10.5 mi ride to work. Even with traffic being that bad...I had a stretch coming home today where I had the engine off for 1.7mi. Had to restart to make it up a hill and then engine off again for the next .7 mi. Overall, I was able to have my engine off for right at 5 mi of my 10.5 mi commute. Going, I can stay in FAS for a little over 3 miles. If I could figure out a slightly better route, I might be able to make 1 leg of my roundtrip completely fuel free. I'm sure some of you guys who live in no mans land or in the mountain probably have some really long stretches, but I was pretty happy considering my area. What have you guys been able to achieve?

Oh, and for anyone who knows the area...the long stretch starts right around Prestonwood Baptist church on Hebron - headed westbound. The key is also hitting the lights right...there are 2 lights in there you have to worry about.

ETA - this also starting happening when I put my PSI in my tires at 50....

The longest ever is on the PA Turnpike just west of Blue Mountain. I swear it was at least seven or eight miles... :woot:

Locally, I have two mile stretches of Fas on a daily basis.

Hi All:

___IIRC, leaving Tonopah, NV Northbound on Rt. 6??? yielded a 12 miler or thereabouts?

___Many 7 to10 milers in the Sierra Nevada's. Tehachapi pass was another multi with one at 7 + and I-80 into Salt Lake must have been about 10 miles as well? IL? A 2.5 + miler with a D-FAS to start and one hell of a tail wind ;)

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Coming from NJ into PA, I have been able to get a 2 miler. I could probabl go longer, but I get nervous with some of the construction and what not going on...

No real opportuinities to get much more that that... lots of uphills around here LOL...

I've wondered about that; I'll have to check. There's one spot on the way home where I think it's maybe 3 miles, if not for traffic. Risking a speeding ticket, of course. :eek:

I get to NICE off at the end of my drive home for almost a mile, ending inside my garage. Some days I can stretch that to over 1.5 miles if traffic cooperates and there's no head wind. :)

Otherwise I probably don't coast for more than a mile anywhere else on my commute.

All the way down Pikes Peak in Aug 2007 - 18.6 miles and completely ran down the 12-volt battery. :o

i've gone 3.5 miles on the NYS thruway, however, i don't have anything over a mile on my daily commute...which is soon to change.

3.5 miles for me, too. But I recently switched from FAS to NICE-on coasting on that segment of my highway commute going down on highway 50 from the Sierra Nevada range towards Sacramento, since I worry about the almost 80 MPH top speed :Banane49: damaging my auto tranny! :eek:

I have the pleasure of a daily fas on my way home at night that is exactly 5.0 miles. After the initial drop off there is just enough up & down rolling hills to maintain 45 mph for the entire 5 miles.

Hi Larry:

___Everyday? Holy smokes! What is it like to climb out of that valley?

___I remembered another. I was in a rental Malibu in San Francisco. There was an Interstate that had a 3 – 5 miler to the East of the mountains. It was one of those that just seemed be at the proper slope for that vehicle to maintain a 55 – 60 mph terminal. Climbing into those mountains on a very windy mountain road when leaving the San Francisco area was no fun however :(

___Good Luck

___Wayne

There's a really outstanding FAS on the Mass Pike east-bound from I think the Blandford rest area? That's at least 5 miles, maybe 6. The best part is that its was nearly perfect constant speed in the Accord.

Hi Larry:

___Everyday? Holy smokes! What is it like to climb out of that valley?

___I remembered another. I was in a rental Malibu in San Francisco. There was an Interstate that had a 3 – 5 miler to the East of the mountains. It was one of those that just seemed be at the proper slope for that vehicle to maintain a 55 – 60 mph terminal. Climbing into those mountains on a very windy mountain road when leaving the San Francisco area was no fun however :(


Wayne,

Lets just say it is a daily chore to not lose any off my avg mpg on the way back out. Those same rolling hills I rave about when I go home I curse on the way out. There is no straight away at the bottom of them so you really don't have the ability to gain speed for the next one as you climb out. But that's is what makes them so sweet going down. Plus at the time of night I go home, all I have to worry about is not hitting a deer. I always have my A trip set for lifetime & B trip set for fill ups, so will be nice when I get the scangauge to be able to see what my trip mpg is for climbing out, compared to going home.

All the way down Pikes Peak in Aug 2007 - 18.6 miles and completely ran down the 12-volt battery. :o
:D
They must have made you stop off a while at the brake checkpoint. All that with no engine braking??? :eek:

Larry, just remember that the SG will read about 30% lower FE when you are in lean burn.

I-70 just east of Wheeling in West Virginia, westbound. It's about a five mile Fas with 6% grade signs.

[QUOTE=lamebums;108313]The longest ever is on the PA Turnpike just west of Blue Mountain. I swear it was at least seven or eight miles... :woot:QUOTE]

I know this stretch well (I think.) It's a few miles before the Lehighton exit, isn't it?
I'll check the FAS mileage next time I'm headed South.
I have a daily FAS of 2.7 miles (of course, I have to climb the hill to get to FAS on the down slope, but It's pretty cool.)
I think it adds about 1.5 mpg to each tank alone (using the nine gallon fill-up as a rule for me based upon the small tank in my Fit.)
brian:Banane15:

[QUOTE=lamebums;108313]The longest ever is on the PA Turnpike just west of Blue Mountain. I swear it was at least seven or eight miles... :woot:QUOTE]

I know this stretch well (I think.) It's a few miles before the Lehighton exit, isn't it?
I'll check the FAS mileage next time I'm headed South.
I have a daily FAS of 2.7 miles (of course, I have to climb the hill to get to FAS on the down slope, but It's pretty cool.)
I think it adds about 1.5 mpg to each tank alone (using the nine gallon fill-up as a rule for me based upon the small tank in my Fit.)
brian:Banane15:

I don't recognize the name of Leighton. It's just west of the Sideling Hill plaza on the Turnpike if that helps? There's some construction at the bottom on the east side.

IIRC it's the new section that bypassed the old abandoned turnpike and the two tunnels.

[QUOTE=fitmpg;108612]I don't recognize the name of Leighton. That's because you're talking about the E-W Tpk and the other fellow is talking about the Northeast Extension :)

I have two really great opportunities for long FAS runs on my outbound commute, and two on the way home. One of them gives me a good 3 miles, providing I have clear road to take the ess-curve with verve. ;)

However I've pretty much stopped FAS-ing on those long runs after having a heart-stopping near miss with an elderly driver; she sat there, and sat there, and sat there, not moving, at the intersection, until I was almost on top of it, then she pulled out. I'm sure she never saw me. We weren't going all that fast, and my little Fit's brakes were up to the task; but I shudder to think what might have been if I had not had any vacuum assist remaining. So for me FAS runs are now limited to wide open spaces with no cross roads, or my late night runs home from work.

I was absolutely braking down Pikes

, and my little Fit's brakes were up to the task; but I shudder to think what might have been if I had not had any vacuum assist remaining.

For this reason, I tend to use my e-brake if I need to slow down a little, saving my vacuum pressure for emergencies.

I've gotten a number of mountain FASes of 6-7 miles. Just last month I managed to get a true 7 mile segment at an actual 1100 mpg, coming down from near Mt. St. Helens. Starting off from a parking lot, I used the ICE to get up to ~30mph, then glided the rest of the way down to the next parking lot 7 miles away.

I routinely get 3 miles in town, coming off either side of Sylvan Summit (US 26 on the way to work), or I-5 through the West Hills. I've also managed 3 mile FASes coming home through SW Portland on arterial streets if the light timing works out right, which it only occasionally does.

I have a regular 2.5 miles down SB I680 to the light at Scott Creek and Warm Springs. This is a regular part of my daily commute. Whoo hoo!
Larry

I went 9 miles down from the Palomar observatory. That was a while ago.
I know the stretch on Hebron well. When I use it, traffic is heavy, plus I must get to 5mph for my autocutoff to work. I wish they had lean burn on the CVT Insights.

For this reason, I tend to use my e-brake if I need to slow down a little, saving my vacuum pressure for emergencies.

"vacuum pressure" is an oxymoron, like "efficient speeding" or "courteous H2-driver" :D Just had to throw that in! And I know exactly what you mean. The e-brake is perfect for those times when you have to lose a few mph. But for some weird reason, my European-designed Chevy Maxx has a pedal for the e-brake. And to release it, you have to push the pedal again. So it's definitely not intended as an e-brake, but more as a way to hold a parked car on a grade. Too bad. The car's parent - the Opel Signum over in Germany - has a neat handbrake lever that I could put to good use. But Chevy evidently decided that Americans would rather have that second cup holder on the console. The Signum is also available with a 2 liter turbodiesel that is efficient enough to drive from Berlin to Boston on one tank. Just remember to roll your windows up when driving westward off the tip of Portugal and into the blue area of the map!:p

Wow, I feel like a real amateur. My longest FAS on my daily commute is almost 3/4 mile if I can hit it right, and I feel pretty smug about that. :roll:

I was once indecently happy that, while running errands, I managed a one-mile FAS in town. That section of road sure doesn't look like a hill, but evidently it is just downhill enough... (There was a city bus that passed me 3/4 of the way through it, though; he seemed a little annoyed to have to move out of the right lane to go around me! ;) )

-soD