Cammed '99 T/A M6 58K miles FS
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Hey, I'm new to T/As and am currently looking for one. I'm a college student and will soon be driving back and forth on a 2hr round trip drive twice a week to a new college. Do you think this car would be capable of being driven daily? Would it be dependable, and with the upgrades you have made, how badly has it affected the mpg? Very nice car BTW and price!
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Hey, I'm new to T/As and am currently looking for one. I'm a college student and will soon be driving back and forth on a 2hr round trip drive twice a week to a new college. Do you think this car would be capable of being driven daily? Would it be dependable, and with the upgrades you have made, how badly has it affected the mpg? Very nice car BTW and price!
-Geoff
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The car is very capable as a daily driver especially on the highway. I used to daily drive it for a couple years before buying a crappy car to use to and from work. The only driving issues is that sometimes the idle will dip to 400 rpms or so when you push in the clutch and you're coming up to a stop. Also when rpms are between about 1300 and 1800 and you're at part throttle then it will "buck" sometimes where the car jerks forward/back a little bit. Both of these can be tuned out supposedly but I haven't had much time to play with it. Really it's not a big deal to me and knowing when it happens I can easily avoid it. The last I checked it was getting maybe 24 mpg on the highway but that was a few years ago. I would think it's about the same now but I don't know. In the city I think it gets around 17. With the current way I've tuned the car it's not using inputs from the O2 sensors, it has no catalytic converters, and the mass airflow sensor isn't installed. This is what you call a speed density tune which works fine but is easiest if you have a laptop to be able to tune with on your own using the software that I'm providing with the car. Anyways, if you have any other questions just give me a shout.
-Geoff
-Geoff