tn_gt

well like the post above said 500 rpm's higher for cruising isnt very fuel efficient, i just dont want it to fall below 20 mpg and like i said i have a LOT of fun with my car and i check the mileage by pencil/paper and i get 22.5 consistently

rad_rob

Why is it that he wont install Motive gears in his worst enemies cars? Just curious....

tn_gt

guess they arent as up to par as ford racing gears, prob cause of the whine they make

rad_rob

Well, typically gears are only going to whine if they are set up incorrectly. I love how when gears whine, everyone points the finger at the gears being bad, instead of considering the fact that maybe they were were just set up wrong. I personally know quite a few people who run Motive gears with absolutely 0 problems.

grampa_stang

Ford say 4.9 hrs labor. So it depends on the shop rate and how long ittakes them to do it.

whtcanbrwnd04u

You don't know the meaning of "fun with your car" until you realize how slow it is with those 3.31s. Get the 4.10s.

p.s. a prius would get you over 20mpg and you could have a LOT of with with it

thewarmachine

I really don't know what my former or present mpg was/is. I look at the computer display sometimes and with 3.31 I remember seeing about 17.9 most of the time. Tonight after driving for a while, city and highway, it was about 19.7. I mostly drive on country roads where the speed limit is 45-55mph, so the 4.10 gears make 5th gear useful to me now, whereas before I really hated to use 5th at those speeds because the car was just too sluggish and boggy. The car feels very perky now.

If I get too worried about gas money, I'll switch to my 87 tune and save a few pennies. Otherwise, I'm driving my car.

How can a guy who spent $10,000 on his stang worry about gas mileage?

tn_gt

well i do a lot of highway driving and when i go off to college its about 40 minutes away, just enough that i prob would come home often and college students dont have to much money from what i hear lol...but for the most part of driving around the town i guess i could spare a couple dollars for them, plus gas has dropped 50 cents a gallon in the past 2 weeks here so

gman73

I drive about 70-75 miles per. day with about 60 hwy miles. With 4.10 gears and driving about 80 MPH on the hwy. I am avg. just over 20 MPG. HWY MPG alone at 80 MPH I get about 24 MPG.

cam2904

Nice on the gears warmachine. I thought I recognized your car at the dyno day. Maybe I will see you around sometime.