Thanks Bill and Alex!
I maintain my vehicles regularly, so I'm getting the best possible. I
average 18.5mpg each week, because I am 80% highway. It drops as low as
17mpg when I'm only 50% highway. Pulling our pop-up camper, I'm down to
15mpg.
It's the city driving and pulling the toys that are my strongest case for
the accessories. I already got the OK for the Z-tube, but then the gas
prices came back down from the ceiling ;) This will be a little harder as
the prices is more, but I still think I can sell it due to the time I keep
my trucks.
Bill, if I remember right, you said the SC was around $4k? Quick
calculation....that's only 1,600 gallons of gas to pay for it
($1.25/gallon). If I get 1.5mpg average gain, that will save me 3 gallons
per week. It will pay for itself in 10 years, if the price of gas stays at
$1.25/gal and maintaining my 750mi/week.
It sounds like the more city driving and pulling will help pay for it
faster. Thanks for the help!
Wish me luck!
Sean
'92 RC Sport 3.9L 5spd - 256,000mi!
'01 CC SLT+ 4.7L 5spd 3.92 LSD Mobil-1 - 38,500!
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-----Original Message-----
From: AlexReed [mailto:alexreed@charter.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:49 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: Re: Gas Mileage
Well, im going to throw in my five cents worth. I've got a 99 CC 5.2
manual trans 3.55 Lsd rear- ok, I am getting 15.3 mpg as an average with
a good mix of city and highway. I did notice an improvement after the
rear diff. fluid change and the syn. oil change, along with a couple
other minor maintenence items. Went up about a half mpg, not bad for
just doing whats supposed to be done. Hope this helps. Later.
Xander
SEMIHEMI01@aol.com wrote:
>
> Sean,
> I found that it's an overall gain in both in town and on the hi-way.
The
> main reason you get in town gain is the monsterous torque gain. It just
takes
> a lot less effort to leave a traffic lite. I find I use a lot less
> accelerator in city driving than before I installed it. Bill
>
> SEMIHEMI01@AOL.COM> KB SuperCharged, 4.7L, 2001, QC,
> <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/semihemi01">the "DAK",</A> <A
> HREF="http://www.southernmopar.org/index.shtml">SouthernMopar</A>
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