Whats your highest LS1 MPG with your setup?
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Whats your highest LS1 MPG with your setup? Kinda curious as to what everyone is getting with thier LS1 and what I should be expecting with mine, before I build it up into something. I belive I read on here somewhere someone was making damn good power WITH damn good MPG's too!!
i have about 330-340 rwhp right now.. get about 20-22 mpg around town, around 30ish on the highway.
my old 402rwhp/354 rwtq camaro with 3.73 gears got roughly 24mpg, and 32-34 on the highway depending on my driveing
my old 402rwhp/354 rwtq camaro with 3.73 gears got roughly 24mpg, and 32-34 on the highway depending on my driveing
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Kidding!
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ur kidding, right?
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alot of the mpg is in the tune.when i was cam only i was low teens and when i put the heads/90/90 on and had it retuned it was around the upper teens.i still was nowhere near the mid twentys but i don't think upper teens is that bad .
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Mpg Hi, when I first bought my 2000SS in December 2001, I was averaging 240-260 a full tank. That's an average of 14.28-15.47 around town. With all of the mods, I'll average 160 full tank which is 9.52 mpg. For our cars to average 20-25 on highway, a full tank would give you 420miles total. The manufactors estimate of total mpg is 374. Somehow, these numbers don't match. The best I got from when my car was fully stock was 320-340 total on driving to California from Las Vegas at around 75-85mph. That's 20.23mpg@16.8, which is our tank size. When I had my 1980 Honda Accord Hatchback, I would get 300 on a full tank@27.77mpg. If you do the numbers, my tank size was 10.8 gallons. Later
Driving habit and tuning does help but also the tranny. My Formula bone stock actually got me 30mpg on a trip from Lafayette, LA to Indy, but I was only going as high as 65mph. City was about 20-22. I haven't recorded the gas mileage on the H/C combo, but I know it got worse. With the 402/F1-R, I will be happy to hit double digits. This TA I just bought with an auto only got me a best of 24-25 on the German highway.
But here is the thing most guys asking these questions are missing. You don't buy a V8 car to get gas mileage in the 30s and if you are modifying you car for more power you are not really worried about gas mileage. I saw a 2mpg drop just changing the gears from 3.42 to 3.73. If you want to play, you got to pay....the oil man.
But here is the thing most guys asking these questions are missing. You don't buy a V8 car to get gas mileage in the 30s and if you are modifying you car for more power you are not really worried about gas mileage. I saw a 2mpg drop just changing the gears from 3.42 to 3.73. If you want to play, you got to pay....the oil man.
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Originally Posted by Gold Phoenix
Driving habit and tuning does help but also the tranny. My Formula bone stock actually got me 30mpg on a trip from Lafayette, LA to Indy, but I was only going as high as 65mph. City was about 20-22. I haven't recorded the gas mileage on the H/C combo, but I know it got worse. With the 402/F1-R, I will be happy to hit double digits. This TA I just bought with an auto only got me a best of 24-25 on the German highway.
But here is the thing most guys asking these questions are missing. You don't buy a V8 car to get gas mileage in the 30s and if you are modifying you car for more power you are not really worried about gas mileage. I saw a 2mpg drop just changing the gears from 3.42 to 3.73. If you want to play, you got to pay....the oil man.
But here is the thing most guys asking these questions are missing. You don't buy a V8 car to get gas mileage in the 30s and if you are modifying you car for more power you are not really worried about gas mileage. I saw a 2mpg drop just changing the gears from 3.42 to 3.73. If you want to play, you got to pay....the oil man.
man you guys have it good my 2000 camaro with g5x4 gets 9mpg city 22 highway my tank is only like 14gallons when i fill up though. best on a road trip was 270 on the 14 gallons. im in nyc though and theres a stop light every 50ft or so. really sucks but i fill it up and drive on.
I've put 2 tanks of gas through the car on the current mods. I got 17.1mpg the first time, and today got 17.45mpg. And since the mods are new, that's with a lot of playing and 6200+ RPM WOT runs.
Originally Posted by ChoiceCam00
Hi, when I first bought my 2000SS in December 2001, I was averaging 240-260 a full tank. That's an average of 14.28-15.47 around town. With all of the mods, I'll average 160 full tank which is 9.52 mpg. For our cars to average 20-25 on highway, a full tank would give you 420miles total. The manufactors estimate of total mpg is 374. Somehow, these numbers don't match. The best I got from when my car was fully stock was 320-340 total on driving to California from Las Vegas at around 75-85mph. That's 20.23mpg@16.8, which is our tank size. When I had my 1980 Honda Accord Hatchback, I would get 300 on a full tank@27.77mpg. If you do the numbers, my tank size was 10.8 gallons. Later
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26-27mph...hwy if I do about 72mph the whole way, and in the city I get about 240-250 miles on the odometer before I have to pull in and fill it back up, so city is about 16mpg. IF I don't play alot. If I play its literally like a windshield wiper blade on the gas gauge. Or if I do like 80mph+ on the hwy it also goes very fast.