2005 Chevy 2500HD Duramax, wanting to boost MPG

erock666p

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Hi all, i'm a brand new Duramax owner and am interested in boosting my MPG. To my knowledge i have an LLY motor, it's a 2005 Chevy 2500HD with a 6.6L Duramax. I've heard that the best way to gain MPG is to do a new intake, exhaust and to chip it. I've also heard that chipping is an easy way to blow up a motor, which i am definitely not interested in doing. Any advice to gain MPG on my truck without causing damage to it over time would be greatly appreciated.
 

C.bowles2

2005 lly duramax
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They kinda just suck, im lucky to get 18, but its usually more like 13-15




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NC-smokinlmm

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Intake is a waste of money if your after mpg. Just get a ppe standard excellerator and set it on level 2, I had the best economy with it. Keeping your foot out of it helps the most...;)
 

battlegraduate09

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Intake is a waste of money if your after mpg. Just get a ppe standard excellerator and set it on level 2, I had the best economy with it. Keeping your foot out of it helps the most...;)

I had one of those back in the day, I actually liked it for an off the shelf programmer
 

Firefightkev

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Upgrade your turbo mouth piece, exhaust and do EFI live. If you tow efi live can get you an option to turn on turbo braking.

I had a banks programer and it dropped my mileage in the toilet.

2x on intake being a waist of money.
 

OregonDMAX

NOT IN OREGON, NO DURAMAX
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Intake is a waste of money if your after mpg. Just get a ppe standard excellerator and set it on level 2, I had the best economy with it. Keeping your foot out of it helps the most...;)

The lly intake is not the same as the lbz it is garbage just like the lb7 intake