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Old 05-23-2008, 02:01 AM
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Well this is just a fun little fact. I am a private investigator and spend most of my time driving. Today i had to take my stang on survaillence because my usual car had been seen too many times. This rarely happens, but is a mild inconvience. Well today i did 10 hours of survaillence and well over 300 miles on a single tank of gas roughly (340-360). With 4.10 gears no less. Just wanted to see what people thought about this.
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Old 05-23-2008, 02:07 AM
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i do it all the time.. u lose like 2mpg TOPS with 4.10s under normal conditions
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i'm not cheating on her i swear! just leave me alone! that was just my secretary...we had to uh...finish some office work at my place
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Old 05-23-2008, 02:18 AM
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LOL nice. I just figured i would post this for the people who think 4.10's somehow cut mileage down a severe level. It seems to me it drives almost the same as a 4 speed auto. 5th gear rpms anyway.
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Old 05-23-2008, 02:24 AM
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LOL nice. I just figured i would post this for the people who think 4.10's somehow cut mileage down a severe level. It seems to me it drives almost the same as a 4 speed auto. 5th gear rpms anyway.
yup i always love to read posts by ppl who claim 4.10s are the worst things ever. The ONLY downside i see for them is the 4th gear top out at 110( but i really see it as a blessin, i dont need to be going faster than that anyways)
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Old 05-23-2008, 02:35 AM
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Exactly, you dont need anything above that, plus you get there alot quicker.
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Old 05-23-2008, 03:40 AM
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what kind of milage do you think you would get with 4.56's?
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Old 05-23-2008, 04:04 AM
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Before I get flamed, my DD is a 46,000 Kilometre Nissan Sentra GXE and I have a 50L tank and have NEVER travelled more than 500kms on a tank. You guy's are getting 500 "MILES" per tank? How so?
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ummm he said 300 not 500
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btw I don't even get that with stock gearing I can usually barely squeeze out 300. about 23mpg
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