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Old Aug 30, 2006 | 08:06 PM
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Would putting a 6psi blower on my basically stock stang be really bad with gas mileage or only when i floor it? thx
Old Aug 30, 2006 | 11:23 PM
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only when you floor it. the sc doesnt really do much/anything below 3000rpms
Old Aug 31, 2006 | 01:42 AM
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i can drive around semi quickly without even going into boost.
Old Aug 31, 2006 | 02:25 AM
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My gas mileage already sucked B4 my S/C. At WOT I can see the hand on the fuel gauge move
a little. The FMU may have something to do with that, I dunno.
Old Aug 31, 2006 | 06:57 PM
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I'm running 18.5 mpg with mixed driving (local and hwy.) and my boost guage gets a regular workout.
Old Aug 31, 2006 | 08:02 PM
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I get 16 mpg with my setup and i dont daily drive my car its to take out and beat on it so its always ran hard i use to have a 01 silverado blown with an FMU and that thing only got 10MPG so think an FMU does have alot to do with bad gas mileage but i am no fuel economy expert so i could be wrong
Old Aug 31, 2006 | 09:10 PM
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i get 23mpg highway with my setup.
Old Aug 31, 2006 | 10:24 PM
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well you definately win nanakai thats honda status lol
Old Sep 1, 2006 | 12:51 PM
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i average 13.2 miles a gallon...cant figure out wha is wrong.......
Old Sep 2, 2006 | 01:41 AM
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Sucks. My expedition get's better than that. I'll sell you that & you can use it as your econo box.
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