Gas mileage loss after LT/ory install
12-01-2006, 03:53 PM
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Hahaha, true. I think my car sounds badass with my cutouts open. IMO it doesn't seem as loud as people think. Maybe because I had my cutout welded at the end of my ipipe where it curvs up over the axle. Cause when it was under my car I had alot of vibration but now it acts as a turndown pipe woohoo.
12-20-2006, 03:21 PM
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Hows it going everyone, for the ones who had the same problem as me the only solution is to get a tune man. I got a tune this weekend and my gas mileage was back up to normal if not better. The basic tune obsolutely did the job, get it done guys and saving money on gas will pay for the tune itself.
12-20-2006, 10:26 PM
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I got 240 or so before headers and then went to 180 or so...got a vinci tuner and am now back to 220-250. Yours needs some sort of a tune...Bosch 13111 02 sensors help..
you are talking about for the front 2 right? how can those help over the stock ones? and aront those for the vettes too??
12-20-2006, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by TORCHD 02 TA
you are talking about for the front 2 right? how can those help over the stock ones? and aront those for the vettes too??
12-20-2006, 11:22 PM
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this has nothing to do with the question over the headers but...JUSTIN00SS, i got a letter from gm the other day that said my car was one of the years that there were a certain number of faulty cats on the passenger side. its not a recall for all of them but if yours goes bad, gm will get the bill. sux that you already replaced it though
12-20-2006, 11:23 PM
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i get just over 200 or so with 12 gallons... our cars have 16.1 gallons so thats like 266 with lt's, ory, plenty of exhast leaks and a diiirty air filter... like a year overdue of being cleaned, lol. That'll cut it down a bit. Thats on my stock tune.
12-21-2006, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by NHRAMAN
yes..for the front 2...these have a wider heat range apparently..13111 Bosch Rear Vette 02's are what people on this board recomended to me to use when I installed the headers...no SES light.
i will look into these. Even though i have HP Tuners to turn off the SES light, can the Bosch's still benefit me in anyway????
12-26-2006, 11:11 AM
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maybe im drunk everytime i drive my car, but i can make it WAY passed 250 on a tank, and im talkin like 400, 15 gallons X rougly 28 to the gallon = 420, i have an m6, but i know when i take it to kansas city which is rougly 250 miles i can make it there and most of the way back in 1 tank
12-26-2006, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by radcliffe18
maybe im drunk everytime i drive my car, but i can make it WAY passed 250 on a tank, and im talkin like 400, 15 gallons X rougly 28 to the gallon = 420, i have an m6, but i know when i take it to kansas city which is rougly 250 miles i can make it there and most of the way back in 1 tank
04-29-2007, 09:33 PM
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How's it going everyone, just wanted to bring this thread back up really quick. After I did my tune my gas mileage seemed to go up but still wasn't where it was before I did the LT install. I have been getting a ticking sound which I thought was an exhaust leak or bad plugs. I went ahead and changed all the plugs except for the 8th one because I couldn't get to it at the time. But I was still getting the ticking sound and bad gas mileage so I thought it was an exhaust leak.
I never got around to checking it out because I have been so busy and have another car to drive. But just this past Friday at my automotive class I brought my car in and changed out the 8th plug with a new one. I couldn't believe it, the ticking sound completely went away and my car is holding up the gas now. So it turns out that my 8th plug was bad the whole time which was giving me bacefire at wot.
Well just wanted to share this with you guys, now I have been wanting to drive my car more since I fixed that damn problem, woohoo.
I never got around to checking it out because I have been so busy and have another car to drive. But just this past Friday at my automotive class I brought my car in and changed out the 8th plug with a new one. I couldn't believe it, the ticking sound completely went away and my car is holding up the gas now. So it turns out that my 8th plug was bad the whole time which was giving me bacefire at wot.
Well just wanted to share this with you guys, now I have been wanting to drive my car more since I fixed that damn problem, woohoo.
04-29-2007, 10:13 PM
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yea man that last plug is always a bitch. i have gotten good results getting it from under the car with a 3" extension and a cheater pipe on the handle of the wrench. it was giving me a horrible misfire for a while, finally changed it and shazam. it's amazing what a little tlc will do for any car 
I would sell a limb for that kind of mileage again. I am lucky to see 190 these days.