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I recently put in a set of new Bosch injectors with 50hp DDP nozzles on my gen 3 truck.Monday I drove to Vancouver Washington and set the cruise on 65mph. A total of 426 miles one way.The Smarty programmer was set to completely stock. My plan was to drive one way in stock format and then do the return trip with the smarty 30hp + tune.So Monday I set off on the trip and everything was going fine until I got to the Columbia River gourge. Got into a head wind until I hit Hood River. I have no idea what the wind speed was but it was enough to make my truck work harder to keep the cruise speed up. That messed up my plans for a nice fair weather test.Hand calculated the fill up in Vancouver and I got 19.3 for the trip up. The overhead read 20.3.That's the closest to reality that my overhead has read since I have had the truck. Last tank of fuel I used before I changed my injectors had the overhead reading 4.1 more mpgs than the hand calculated actual numbers.Came home from Vancouver today and this time in reverse I have the Smarty 30hp + tune with timing on 3, TM on stock, RP on mild and waste gate off. Cruise control on 65 and and no wind on the return trip.Hand calculated mileage was 21.5mpg. And the interesting thing was my overhead read 21.4. :hyper:Of course I am thinking that maybe the mpg will go higher as I play around more with the smarty tunes to see if there is one my truck likes even more. :pray:I am traveling to and from Corvallis in the next two weeks (approx 500 miles each way) and I am going to try to two different tunes to see if I can see some increase. Of course these are just a sampling of very basic tunes but I am going to try 60hp+ one way and then the 90hp+ on the return trip.Did I say that I was pretty happy with the results so far?