Why bad gas mileage?
08-23-2006, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by LS1Aggie09
Howdy! I have a 02 Z28 M6 with lid, loudmouth, and skip shift only. I recently changed the oil and seafoamed the gas tank and through the brake booster line. I used to get between 15 city and 19.5 highway when bone stock which i thought was just pitiful. I now get 16.5 to about 20.5.
Why am i not seeing what you guys are getting (18 city and 24 to 26 highway)? I tend to drive it easy and even when i try not to rev above 2000 rpms, i still don't get great mileage! I have about 81k miles. I used to have a bad cat when i bought the car which was driven about 8k miles with a SES light on by the ***** before me. Could it have fried my 02 sensors or something? When i bought it i had the injectors flushed and everything.
Why am i not seeing what you guys are getting (18 city and 24 to 26 highway)? I tend to drive it easy and even when i try not to rev above 2000 rpms, i still don't get great mileage! I have about 81k miles. I used to have a bad cat when i bought the car which was driven about 8k miles with a SES light on by the ***** before me. Could it have fried my 02 sensors or something? When i bought it i had the injectors flushed and everything.
08-23-2006, 01:20 PM
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people saying that they get 25-30 mpg that is like their best seen ever on a highway trip, no ac, windows up constant crusing speed
around town with the AC on you should see around 16, and on the highway around 25 combined for around a total of 22 or 23 most likely and thats only because you have an M6, i get about 20mpg
around town with the AC on you should see around 16, and on the highway around 25 combined for around a total of 22 or 23 most likely and thats only because you have an M6, i get about 20mpg
08-23-2006, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Cop Car
people saying that they get 25-30 mpg that is like their best seen ever on a highway trip
08-23-2006, 01:57 PM
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I need to average mine up again since the ls6 intake swap and cai if I can get the lead out of my shoe. 
With mixed driving w/ the ls1 intake, I would get an average of 20mpg which was close to 50/50 driving and some A/C. My plugs probably need to be changed, but there is no point right now because headers are in my near future, so I'll just change them then.
BTW, I got around 25mpg with 80% HWY and 20% city on a trip I made doing like 85mph the whole way......with the A/C on. (LS1 intake).
With mixed driving w/ the ls1 intake, I would get an average of 20mpg which was close to 50/50 driving and some A/C. My plugs probably need to be changed, but there is no point right now because headers are in my near future, so I'll just change them then.BTW, I got around 25mpg with 80% HWY and 20% city on a trip I made doing like 85mph the whole way......with the A/C on. (LS1 intake).
08-24-2006, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by 1cleanbird
I pay 2.71 for premium here. haha
Premium today in NH is 2.95 and dropping, although I usually run mid grade.
The worst I have done is 19, and the best is 23's. The previous owner claims to have done 30. I am thinking he is full of ****, but my foot hasn't matured yet, either.
08-24-2006, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by uhf357
^^Im the former owner, who never crashed and got 26-29 mpg weekly- CAuse I know how to drive
08-24-2006, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by WetChicken
I didn't crash it, I hung on and kept it out of the guardrail! You were too scared of it to hang the thing sideways more than once *COUGH.
–verb (used without object)
1. to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
2. to break or fall to pieces with noise.
3. (of moving vehicles, objects, etc.) to collide, esp. violently and noisily.
4. to move or go with a crash; strike with a crash.
5. Aeronautics. to land in an abnormal manner, usually causing severe damage: The airliner crashed.
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ya....you crashed
08-24-2006, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by uhf357
Crash:
–verb (used without object)
1. to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
2. to break or fall to pieces with noise.
3. (of moving vehicles, objects, etc.) to collide, esp. violently and noisily.
4. to move or go with a crash; strike with a crash.
5. Aeronautics. to land in an abnormal manner, usually causing severe damage: The airliner crashed.
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ya....you crashed
–verb (used without object)
1. to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
2. to break or fall to pieces with noise.
3. (of moving vehicles, objects, etc.) to collide, esp. violently and noisily.
4. to move or go with a crash; strike with a crash.
5. Aeronautics. to land in an abnormal manner, usually causing severe damage: The airliner crashed.
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ya....you crashed
08-24-2006, 06:15 PM
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Ok, Dictionary Dan, this a crash
and for the record, this is not a vehicle that I was operating at the time of this CRASH.
Taking out a linear marker (the drivers side mirror, and a little paint) while sideways and thouroughly scaring the **** out of your wife is not a crash.
It was like rubbing while racing...when in the Richard Petty Experience.
or not
and for the record, this is not a vehicle that I was operating at the time of this CRASH.
Taking out a linear marker (the drivers side mirror, and a little paint) while sideways and thouroughly scaring the **** out of your wife is not a crash.
It was like rubbing while racing...when in the Richard Petty Experience.
or not