FYI: gas mileage... yes you can get 30mpg!
05-20-2006, 06:18 PM
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FYI: gas mileage... yes you can get 30mpg!
My odometer broke at 82K miles, I'd guess my car has maybe 110K on it now.
I was going to Orlando out of Miami.
On the way out of Miami I stopped to fill it. I was close to empty..
The pump trigger was hard to press, and the lock was broken, and the pump was going really slowly, so I quit pumping at $20 which was just a little over 1/2 a tank, figuring I might be getting bad gas and my hand was tired and I just wanted to hit the road.
Going like 70-80, Windows down (AC off), I rolled into Orlando with a about as much gas as I started with!
That is 240 miles, 7 gallons of gas = 30+ mpg. Not bad for a v8 car.
These gas prices are BS. Not the Mustang...
05-20-2006, 06:27 PM
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RE: FYI: gas mileage... yes you can get 30mpg!
nice man, i usually test my stang gt for miles. the last time i was getting 27 mpg socking it like one a week street racing. Sometimes if i drive like an old fogie i get 30 31 usually.
I have:
bbk t/b plenum 75mm
intake by C and L
85mm MAF
SLP catback
pypes x-pipe w/high flow cats
I have:
bbk t/b plenum 75mm
intake by C and L
85mm MAF
SLP catback
pypes x-pipe w/high flow cats
05-20-2006, 08:31 PM
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RE: FYI: gas mileage... yes you can get 30mpg!
Thats just the thing, I was not grany-shifting.
I was passing everyone, except at the toll booths. I left my sunpass device at home so I could get the manual tickets to turn into work
totally, a tune-up might be in order.
Mine in the last year has gotten new injectors, intake, plugs, wires, coil-packs, exhaust, fluid changes, front-end alignment, new tires, etc...
All that stuff helps...
I was passing everyone, except at the toll booths. I left my sunpass device at home so I could get the manual tickets to turn into work
totally, a tune-up might be in order.
Mine in the last year has gotten new injectors, intake, plugs, wires, coil-packs, exhaust, fluid changes, front-end alignment, new tires, etc...
All that stuff helps...
05-20-2006, 08:51 PM
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RE: FYI: gas mileage... yes you can get 30mpg!
dude, how are you getting that kind of milage? is that your highway, city, or both? on a 20mile commute i have about 5 miles of stop and go, 10 of express type and then the last of it is stop and go again and with all my mods i still get 20 mpg! aaarrrgghh
05-20-2006, 09:13 PM
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RE: FYI: gas mileage... yes you can get 30mpg!
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i shift at 2k every gear n still get so so gas mileage.. lol guess it time for a tune up.
i shift at 2k every gear n still get so so gas mileage.. lol guess it time for a tune up.
Shifting at 2k will probably net you worse gas mileage?