What kind of fuel economy are you mild-bolt-on auto LS1 F-bodies seeing?

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Old 07-25-2010, 04:13 PM
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I gett about 18
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23mpg with a 3600 Yank and 3.73 gears...full bolt-ons..no tune.

i average about 340-360 to a tank and only put in about 15 gallons every time i fill up...93 octane only.
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I never kept tabs on what gas mileage any of my F-Bodies got. I didn't buy the car to be good on gas, I just fill it up when it needs it.
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Originally Posted by The Postman
23mpg with a 3600 Yank and 3.73 gears...full bolt-ons..no tune.

i average about 340-360 to a tank and only put in about 15 gallons every time i fill up...93 octane only.
whats up fool! where the f*ck have u been?
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Originally Posted by The Postman
23mpg with a 3600 Yank and 3.73 gears...full bolt-ons..no tune.

i average about 340-360 to a tank and only put in about 15 gallons every time i fill up...93 octane only.
I'm not sure how this is possible with your setup. Has your odometer been adjusted for the gears? Sorry. The 23 mpg just seems a bit high.
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Brian rs/ss......your sig made me laugh

I haven't done any actual numbers, but the computer readout is 15-16 in town, 25 on the highway
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Originally Posted by The Postman
23mpg with a 3600 Yank and 3.73 gears...full bolt-ons..no tune.

i average about 340-360 to a tank and only put in about 15 gallons every time i fill up...93 octane only.
Originally Posted by Shackleford
I'm not sure how this is possible with your setup. Has your odometer been adjusted for the gears? Sorry. The 23 mpg just seems a bit high.
i was thinking the same thing.... cause i cant even pull over 300 miles to a tank of gas and im stock. max i get per tank is 260ish
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Originally Posted by retardedpenguin
I get 30

My SS seemed like it got pretty bad though.
I get 32mpg at a steady 80mph. Average is about 22mpg, 60% highway.
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02 SS Bone Stock with 3.23 gears got 18-19 in town and 23-24 on highway.

After bolt-ons and tune 17-18 in town and 23-25 on highway. The light usually goes off at about 240 miles on a tank but I can push it to 260 or 270 on mostly town driving. It does alot better on the highway. It would probably be better if I kept my foot out of it but who can drive a 02 SS a full tank of fuel without gettin on her a few times. I cant do it.
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I got bolt ons, street tune, and 3200 stall on my daily driver and my last fill up was about 16.x mpg. I can get 15-17 with mixed driving with alittle highway alittle stop and go traffic and alittle WOT go pedal time. It used to get much more than that before the mods. I think my o2's may be bad. When I first got the car I swear it was doing 25mpg mixed. Then it started to do only 20 or so. Then the exhaust/intake mods came and stayed around 18-21 depending on how much highway i did. The converter really dropped the mileage.
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Thats funny that you brought this up because I just did the whole MPG test on my T/A and was so dissapointed. I only got about 200 miles to my completely full tank. Divide that by the 12 gallons and its 16.66 ... I guess I was only shocked because I usually DD my civic but its getting fixed and I had to DD the T/A. I wasn't sure if this number was very good because I have seen the gap of ppl who get 20+ to us who are between 15 - 17. I plan on doing a complete tuneup though to see if it helps. I think im going to do the whole sea foam, change the plugs, fuel filter, oil, maybe change out transmissiom fluid etc .. and hopefully see a change!!
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01 Trans Am, 6M, SLP longtubes, GM hot cam, few other things

29 on the HW @ about 75mph (I think I could push 31 if I went 80-85, but can't risk a ticket).

14-16 in the city.
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I just finished another tank ... this time I was on it a little here and there and only could push out 175 miles to the tank. Bah .. that brings me down to about 14.58. Tuneup here we come!
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Of course you milage is bad if you're setting in your car idling with the ac running 5 days/week. My milage dropped considerably just from the difference in Tulsa traffic and Ft. W traffic.

I read about replacing cats, seafoaming, new plugs, replacing the fuel pump, and fuel filter in a quest for improved milage. But how old are your O2's? Other than a tune up and fresh filter, look there next.
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Originally Posted by Greed4Speed
Of course you milage is bad if you're setting in your car idling with the ac running 5 days/week. My milage dropped considerably just from the difference in Tulsa traffic and Ft. W traffic.

I read about replacing cats, seafoaming, new plugs, replacing the fuel pump, and fuel filter in a quest for improved milage. But how old are your O2's? Other than a tune up and fresh filter, look there next.
My oxygen sensors are only a few months old. I'm really suspecting my cats. The same situation happened in my old Z28 LT1. I noticed my gas mileage was sucking, and I found out before or after I bought a new cat that my old cat was bad. I think I just said what the heck and bought a hi-flow cat and when the shop put it on he said the old cat was shot.
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Just bust the ceramic out if them and have the rear O2's turned off.




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