The cost of the donor engine alone would exceed the fuel cost savings for the life of the car. This is why it's stupid when people sell sports cars to buy econoboxes.

It's like "I'll take a $3000 loss on my Camaro and pay sticker for this Prius so I can save $30 a week on gas."

 

I didn't get any better milage with a 3800 A4 then I do with my LS1 M6.

 

Re: Canadian prices...

Just to put actual numbers to the conversion, at today's exchange rate (1USD=1.163CAD), US dollars/gallon = 3.165 times Canadian dollars per litre. On my drive thru Ontario yesterday (Niagara Falls to Windsor) I saw premium gas for $1.12/litre. That comes out to be $3.54US/gal.

Man, that sucks. That's why I fill up before I leave NY and have enough to make it back to Michigan.

 

You do not deserve that car for even thinking it!!! Sell it and buy a Honda!

 

You're right - I'm not serious. For those with rude responses, take a deep breath and let it out slowly. Now smack yourself in the forehead - Do you really think I would put a V6 in an SS?? Come on!!!!

I actually really, really want to put a 408 iron block in this thing (can you say MORE gas??).

Here's what really annoys me though - Say the price of a barrel of oil goes up today $3. Well, your corner gas pump price will go up within HOURS. No reasonable person could possibly believe that the barrel of oil bought this morning for $60 whatever dollars made it to your gas pump by late evening. It takes WEEKS for that crap to be shipped and refined and shipped to your local gas pump. In other words, those bastards are truly gouging us for the difference until they actually get the product to the gas stations.

The gas companies for the last few years have been saying exactly two things:

1. When talking to investors they say "We can't freaking believe how huge our profits are - we're doubling profits every year for the last 4 or 5 years!!"

2. When taking to consumers they say "We can't freaking believe how high the price of oil is right now, and there isn't anything we can do about it."

In the meantime, go to Yahoo finance and look up the stock of the various oil companies. There's a section for "Insider transactions" that shows how much stock various company bigshots hold and how much they've bought and traded. Some of these people can buy $50 stock for $20 (example, not real numbers) then immediately sell it for the current $50 price. The company bigshots are making MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of dollars while you and I are paying $2.70+ for gas that hasn't even been produced yet.


How is this on topic with the forum?? Well, I'd like to try installing an LS1 in the rectum of a couple of oil company CEO's!!

 

Yeah, I seriously doubt anybody on this site that serious about their hobby would hack up and SS or any other car like that. I knew you were kidding.

FYI, $2.78/gal for premium this weekend here on the west side of Michigan. I average about 22 mpg with my Z if I keep my foot outta it. Problem is its no fun. Thats what I got the cavalier for during the week. Still cost me $2.59/gal in that thing today.

 

Anywhere from $2.69 - $2.80 for 93 Octane here in Augusta, GA

 

lol i knew u were kidding too, dunno about some of the responses though. i knew gas would keep going up so thats why alot of my stocks are in oil

 

how can you post a topic like this and not expect a few rude responses. I didn't think anyone was really rude so much as giving back what you dished up.

you should be smacking yourself in the head for such a trollish subject.

not trying to be rude of course, but you should think twice before posting such a misleading subject and wasting everyones time.

hey man, here's an idea for you

save some gas

 

Damn dude, I even knew he was joking some of you guys take crap waaayyy to serious Im just gonna have to start racing for gas money

 

Yeah, put the crack pipe down and step away from the keyboard.

 

 

Use the money and buy a motorcycle.

 

NO for MORE MODS I will reach light speed dammit

 

our A4 3800 gets worse gas milage than our A4 LS1s, if you really want to save on some gas, switch to 2.73s. you will see some improvement in highway milage, and run 13.8s at the track. you could trade me your SS for our V6 :-D or buy our V6 $3900 its in my first link in my profile..

 

I was just thinking "Damn, I should buy a horse. A bicycle would be cheaper, but then I'd have to peddle. A horse it is."

 

gas prices here are 2.99 for premium.....and thats only because we'll have Illinois (chicago) people in town this week for the fair.....we get screwed everytime they show up....and no go on switching motors....just lighten your right foot....my friends 01 arctic white ss a4 gets about 2mpg better in town and highway than my cavalier does.....and makes about 3 times the power at the rear wheels my car makes in the motor....i know which one i'd rather drive and it's not a cavalier

 

it's crazy when you can get jet fuel cheaper than unleaded (it was $2.85 yesterday) and 100 octane leaded was only $3.05...we are all just getting OWNED by a big corporate SCAM

 

The faster you drive the qucker you get to where your going. So that way you can shut off your motor and save gas right? Ha Ha just fooling with ya. I had a friend who actually believed this was true.

 

My old man spent 40 bucks to fill up the family van and got so pissed he went out and bought a civic hybrid w/ cash the same day. Now only if I had 20k or however much those things cost, i'd spend 10k in modding my car 5k on a used bike and another 5k to spend on gas throughout the year.