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Old 01-13-2011, 10:48 PM
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the best i ever seen in my 99 a4 ss with longtubes, ory, slp lm 1 and a lid was about 310 on a full tank without getting on it at all..didnt get above 2k rpm the whole time. my 89 honda will get about 350 or so on a 10.9 gallon tank:]
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my bro has a mild H/C 400 rwhp formula 6 spd and drives about 240-50 miles between fill ups, but he drives it like a grandma though. Thats better than what i used to get with my stock 02 t/a lol, but i cant resist from not going WOT about 10 times a day on average
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Originally Posted by elwood2
I guess some of us need to do a tune up.
lol i dont know how i get such good gas mileage
Old 01-13-2011, 11:41 PM
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I'm over in mandarin. You?
haha what do u know. mandarin also, by zaxbys on san jose
Old 01-14-2011, 01:22 AM
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My 94 Z gets about 350 on the highway, and about 280ish city driving. and she is got a miss now for some dumb reason, but is all meaningless while it's in the body shop (******* snow)
Old 01-14-2011, 03:31 AM
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Originally Posted by 1986irocz28
i usually get roughly around 425 to a tank all highway
I have got this before when I went to work in Ohio but had to fill up before I got there cause I wanted to see what I could get with my car compared to a dually so I set my trip to check the miles and I think it was close to 415-420 before I pulled over to fill up because I had never been there before and didn't want to take a chance on me not finding another gas station cause I was sucking the bottom of the gas tank out, lol.
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Just a thought...but I was getting 180 mpt, then my fuel pump assembly died. I ran my current tank down to the needle on empty so when I pulled the tank to change the assembly it would be empty and easier to drop. Turns out I still had about a quarter tank left of fuel. After installing the new assembly and hooking the tank back up, my fuel gauge showed over a quarter tank of fuel left. Something with the assembly, probably the float, was messed up and giving me much lower fuel readings then what I really had left. Just some food for thought. I now get upwards of 250 a tank
Old 01-14-2011, 02:11 PM
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2000 ta 6 spd i get 23 to 25 on the hiway
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i average 21 mpg with 4.10's n a couple of bolt-ons. mostly city driving.
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[QUOTE=Ruthless909;14357394]Makes me kinda miss my 07 Civic SI [QUOTE]

Yea, our 07' Civic SI routinely gets 41mpg if you don't go faster than 70mph on the hwy.



My Full bolt on Trans Am (minus UD Pulley)/ and Tune gets 31mpg on the hwy. Went about 204 miles with 6.5 gallons. And that's not going faster than 70mph as well.
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Originally Posted by pillagenburn
I get worse gas mileage with 93 in my motor - anything under ~10:1 compression isn't really going to benefit from crazy high octane. I'm at 9.6:1 and I think my performance even improved when I went to 87.

And, for some unexplainable reason, my wallet has been getting fatter.
so true, vehicles that don't need premium aren't going to benefit, it can reduce performance. (keeping in mind that lsx do for the most part)
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if my needle is where yours is in the pic, i have about 200 miles on the tank. so about 17-17.5 mpg, and thats mostly city. i too would like to try to get more
Old 01-14-2011, 04:01 PM
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i get like 160-170 to the tank when driving city or highway and i have longtubes, catted y, slp loudmouth, lid, tune, new plugs and plug wires, oil chage every 3k miles, running 93. driving normal of course i get less with i go WOT. what can i do to improve this
Old 01-15-2011, 11:41 AM
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Consistant 30mpg highway and ~20-25mpg city, depending on how fast I want to get home.

SLP Lid, MAG Catback, and some tuning on a 6sd 3.42 02 SS
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I am running a pretty much bone-stock '99 Z28 M6 with about 84K on it. The only mods are a lid, FTRA, and K&N filter, which is in need of being cleaned/replaced. With mainly city driving, I'm consistently getting just over 20mpg (between 20.2 and 21.3 over 6K miles in 2010).
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When I had my ls1 I would get about 22 mpg with the stall and boltons. I think it was right at 220 or 240 to a tank if im remembering correctly.
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I am currently getting about 23-25 highway and 20-21 city but where I live you can drive like it is highway.
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The past 8 fill ups ive gotten 14.87 average, all city driving, with a max of 16.06 and a min of 13.39. These fill ups account for the past 32 days so roughly a month.
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11-27 depending on how much fun I am having
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Originally Posted by usmonaro
Wow thats awful. I have an 04 GTO M6 with K&N CAI and I have a 16 gallon tank as I suppose all of you do. I get about 290 miles per tank in town I believe and on high way I've got 400 miles or so per tank w/cruise @72mph. And that is on 87 octane. When I have 93oct in my car I usually am planning on thrashing on it, but from what I've observed lol and hard to believe that even under normal driving I get WORSE gas mileage when I run 93oct.
you have a 18 gallon tank , same as my 04 and 06 have , my stalled and cammed 04 gets about 11-13 in traffic and 20ish highway

my 99Z28 stock auto w/2.73's i had 350/360 miles on a tank



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