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Old 01-09-2006, 06:23 PM
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what kinda gas mileage you gettin with your LS1?
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Good enough to warrant a purchase.

Expect anywhere from 15-30 depending on your heavy-footedness
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Originally Posted by caseball2051
what kinda gas mileage you gettin with your LS1?
17-22mpg
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SEARCH. There are a lot of threads and polls regarding gas mileage. You can be lazy and simply look at this one thread for info or you can do a small amount of legwork through search and get ten times the information.


Mileage varies.

I get about 12/22 mpg.
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all city, but still driving like a sane person- 13-ish.

Horrible, I wish I knew why.
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sorry new to the site still...thanks for the help.
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i average about 23mpg city/highway mixed
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14mpg city, occasional heavy foot, mods in sig!
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20-25 with an a4
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Welp, this past weekend I averaged 23mpg... from home, up the Dragon on US 129, up the Foothills Pkwy into Townsend TN, through Wears Valley and Pigeon Forge on into Gatlinburg, and from there to Sevierville to Knoxville to Cleveland(averaging 100 on I-75).
Oh, and we clipped 130,000 miles not too long ago. You won't regret getting an LS1, dude. I've heard people who've owned both say the LS1 get better mileage than the V6 F-body.
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i get around 9 when she likes, she sucks gas...iunno why...maybe cuss the damn gas peddle is stuck to the floor board, iunno why
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I average about 20... On the highway i can squeeze out damn near 30mpg and depending on how heavy my foot is i've gotten as low as 8mpg.

The biggest factors are gearing, transmission, and self control < thats the biggest one!

BTW its nearly impossible to daily drive an LS1 without going WOT at least once a day
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Originally Posted by Luna

BTW its nearly impossible to daily drive an LS1 without going WOT at least once a day
i know that's right!
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man its hard for me not to go WOT atleast 5 times when i have my car out. but i cant help it when i see just miles of open road i dont know what to do but go faster
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i get 50 miles a tank
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Stock - 18/29
Full Bolt Ons - 18/28
Cam/Intake Full Bolt Ons - 15/25

These are just from what I remember getting at each stage.
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automatic- 16 city/25-27 highway
manual- 17 city (depending on shift points)/ 28-33 highway...
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If you really baby her, you can get 22 in town easy. 28.9 was the highest ive ever witnessed in a LS1.
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19 average for the week with a mix of highway/city driving
31 just highway (gotta love the .5 6th gear )
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wow...never expected to hear numbers like that out of it. ive always looked into doin the swap for my 305. but never seriously. now i am. thanks for all the help guys. anyone want to sell me theirs now?!?!?!



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