On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:27:03 -0400, Wayne Allewelt <wallewelt@mai-aec.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Michael,
>
> I have a 01 4.7 4x4 QC and the highest i've seen around town is 13 mpg
> and
> that's on 87 pump gas and driving like grandma, which drove me crazy. The
> experiment i'm trying right now is running higher octane gas. This past
> fill
> up I put 4.5 gal of 110 octane unleaded and the rest with 92 octane. I
> did
> this to help clean the fuel system for one and see if it gave the truck a
> little more ummpf. It has given it a little more go, especially from a
> rolling start. I won't know about the mileage till the end of the week.
> I'll
> keep you informed. I bet you all are saying that it would be cheaper to
> put
> in some fuel injector cleaner. I've done that and my mileage/performance
> didn't show any noticable diff. at all. So I thought i'd throw in the
> moer
> expensive stuff, what the hell the QC is worth it.
>
Uhm. Won't the cost of the higher octane fuel negate any mpg inscrease
advantage?
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