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Old 08-11-2007, 12:43 PM
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My car is a daily driver and i drive a decent amount. What kind of gas mileage will I get if I swap out for the following cams and what would you recommend?

TR224
G5X3
Vengence Vindicator
T-Rex
Magic Stick 4

edit: Most of my driving is highway driving, how will driving under the power curve affect the gas mileage? Thats the main reason for putting the T-Rex cam in there.

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you cant say that this cam will get thiss gas mileage and that cam will get another gas mileage. so many variables go into how good your car is on gas, the tune and gearing being the biggest ones. my cam in sig got 27 mpg on the interstate and its been street tuned.
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i have a cartech x3 cam with lt ory 9in with 411 with a m6 and i get about 12-14 city. i dont do much highway so i cant help you there. but i dont drive easy by no means, im sure i could get better milage but thats no fun lol.
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i plan on getting it tuned and i only have stock 3.42's for now.
the internals are stock for now.
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I get about 20 mixed driving, and mid-high 20's with my heads/cam. It's all in how you drive it. Before I got heads/cam i got as bad as 8mpg on a full tank...

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I will probably end up going with the T-Rex, i know i dont need to flycut but would i need new injectors too? especially since i am spraying.
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i went from the tr224 to a trex and got almost the same gas milage even after i switched to 4.10 gears i didn't see much of a difference because i was going into 5th gear more often ....... trex with 4.10 in a m6 i got 26 mpg highway not tuned for trex
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the worst i have gotten with a tsp 233/239 was around 15-16, best i have gotten is around 27mpg. I average 19-20mpg Car is driven 100 miles a day.
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My Gas milage was unchanged with the TR224 cam.




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