Re: Gen I Gas mileage

From: Bob Tom (tigers@bserv.com)
Date: Sat Aug 04 2001 - 09:04:41 EDT


At 09:41 PM 8/3/01 +0000, you wrote:
> I promised a friend of mine I'd check on his gas mileage for him to see
>what everyone else is getting. The truck is a '91 (pre-mag) V8 with
>a few bolt ons (intake, exhaust, etc.) It has never really gotten
>better than 12mpg, *highway*. That, combined with the 15 gallon tank,
>means he can only go 120-130 miles between fill ups. Anybody else
>out there have any Gen I gas mileage records? How does this compare?
>Any thoughts as far as what to do to improve it?
>(Some of you know the truck, it belongs to Jim Knox; honorary DMLer) :-)

Jon

In talking with Jim, he said that he had it into a garage and they found
out that
his tranny wasn't going into Overdrive. It's been fixed but he won't know
if this
will drastically improve his mileage until he makes the trip with us to the
Nats.

Bob



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