A little MPG rant...
07-15-2008, 04:21 PM
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30 mpg on the highway beleive it or not 
about 18 in the city with ez driving (rarely go above 2k)
4 passes/gallon at the track! but thats keeping it in between 5k and 6.5k
about 18 in the city with ez driving (rarely go above 2k)
4 passes/gallon at the track! but thats keeping it in between 5k and 6.5k
07-15-2008, 04:49 PM
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Driving back home from missouri, with a load of illegal fireworks filling up the hatch. AC full blast, going EXACTLY the speed limit, and in 6th gear as much as possible, got me 29 mpg.
Driving there going as fast as I could 85mph and up 24mpg.
My four cylinder HHR gets 29-30 and would have carried more explosives but its not as fun to drive.
Driving there going as fast as I could 85mph and up 24mpg.
My four cylinder HHR gets 29-30 and would have carried more explosives but its not as fun to drive.
07-16-2008, 06:09 AM
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Driving back home from missouri, with a load of illegal fireworks filling up the hatch. AC full blast, going EXACTLY the speed limit, and in 6th gear as much as possible, got me 29 mpg.
Driving there going as fast as I could 85mph and up 24mpg.
My four cylinder HHR gets 29-30 and would have carried more explosives but its not as fun to drive.
Driving there going as fast as I could 85mph and up 24mpg.
My four cylinder HHR gets 29-30 and would have carried more explosives but its not as fun to drive.
07-19-2008, 01:14 AM
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LS engines are great on cruising. But in stop and go, forget about it.
LQ9 6.0 I get 23-24 mpg highway which is better than the 4.8 it replaced.
City I get 10-13.
LQ9 6.0 I get 23-24 mpg highway which is better than the 4.8 it replaced.
City I get 10-13.
07-22-2008, 09:59 AM
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why why why.. I have a 6-spd with just bolt ons and stock gears, I cant get but 17 mpgs on average, long trips all interstate I might get 22 or so. Suckssss
07-22-2008, 06:48 PM
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Yeah, I dont know why some of you are getting such bad gas mileage. Mods in signature. I drive from Charlotte, NC to Pittsburgh, PA every other weekend, and I average 27mpg both ways. Thats a lot of mountain driving too, with pretty steep inclines. I have averaged a little lower (24 mpg once) because people need to learn that the left lane is for faster moving traffic. I had to keep downshifting into 5th.
07-23-2008, 04:02 PM
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Wow, to hear some of you guys describe it, your 300+ hp LS1 suddenly turns into some kind of miraculous gas-sipping econo car out on the highway. That is really, really amazing. My '00 low mileage 6-speed SS has been tuned, diagnosed and declared in perfect mechanical condition, yet it gets really poor gas mileage when driven normally around town or out on the open road. Only when I skip shift continually and NEVER exceed 2000 rpm in any gear do I see a relatively decent gas mileage figure.
07-23-2008, 05:44 PM
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Wow, to hear some of you guys describe it, your 300+ hp LS1 suddenly turns into some kind of miraculous gas-sipping econo car out on the highway. That is really, really amazing. My '00 low mileage 6-speed SS has been tuned, diagnosed and declared in perfect mechanical condition, yet it gets really poor gas mileage when driven normally around town or out on the open road. Only when I skip shift continually and NEVER exceed 2000 rpm in any gear do I see a relatively decent gas mileage figure.
...before I modded my car is got 29 MPG on the highway