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09-10-2011, 7:26pm | #1 | ||||||
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Finally a MPG thread!
I don't think we've had one of these here yet, I could be wrong but like my wise old Grandfather used to say... "What ya gonna do?"
Anyhow.... Driving from Suffolk, VA to Northern MI I averaged 24.1 MPG with speeds generally around 80 - 90mph on the highway with a couple triple digit runs thrown in for good measure.:auto: I have heads, cam, Vararam, 3200 stall, 3:42 gears, blah, blah, blah. I don't know if 24MPG is considered good but this is the first time I actually checked it since I've had the car and I can live with it. OK, I got the ball rolling, let's here what everyone else is getting. |
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Sounds reasonable given your mods...
I've never bothered to check mpg, but I do know this. With just headers/air filter, I used to be able to make it from here to Bowling Green on one full tank. 520 miles - 18.5gal tank would be 28mpg, so I was averaging better than that. I've been there twice since heads/cam, and know I can no longer make it on one tank, but never calculated to see just how bad it is. May have to do that next May. |
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Did Texas to Carlisle last year have H/C intake etc In 01 Z06 doing manual calcs I averaged 28 mpg I'm down 2 mpg from stock #s
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We just came back from a trip, I put a 1,000 miles on it and spent a lot of the time in the 80 to 90 range. I reset it when we left and the avg.was 24.7 MPH.
I have the same gears and a stall. |
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09-12-2011, 2:44pm | #5 | ||||||
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I avergaed 30 MPG on the Hot Rod Power Tour this year. 2K miles
From home to Florida was 32 |
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I checked mine On Florida I-95 once going 65mph cruise on and got 29.5 ,hell at 60mph you are barely doing 1500 RPM .
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10-03-2011, 4:16pm | #8 | ||||||
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mpg
Did 400 miles last Wednesday. Avg 30.1mpg at 75-80 mph.
Don't have the hot rear end gears...what i lose off the line i make up for in mpg... |
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10-04-2011, 7:21am | #9 | ||||||
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I also have the 2.73 gears,that is why I get great MPG.
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I hear the C-6's are getting 30 MPG
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Coming back from carlisle in august, 2 people lot of luggage and stuff,avg.70-75 mph. 29.2 vararam, and tune and B&B exhaust 6 speed Ken
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Last fall from Columbus to St. Francisville, LA.
Reset the average mileage when I filled up in Nashville heading south and pulled into St. Francisville showing 34.9 MPG on the DIC. One days drive with about 95% of it freeway. Overall did 7 states and 2,331 miles. Ohio to Kentucky to Tennessee to Mississippi to Louisiana to Alabama to Georgia to Tennessee to Kentucky and back to Ohio I pulled back into the driveway showing 31.9 MPG. |
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On a few runs to my parents house (480 mile round trip) I have gotten 28 mpg consistantly.
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From D.C. to Florida and back, averaged slightly under 42 MPG. 878 miles each way.
Oh. Wait. C5 Open Discussion. My bad. |
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8.8 mpg average in the 97' at VIR over 2 days.........
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AM I too late for a rebuttle From Missouri to Florida is downhill. People may laugh but I have actually calculated fuel that way and you do get a little better when traveling south, over a long distance.
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