Here goes:
01 Dodge Ram 1500 Offroad, 360, auto, 4.10 LSD, 33.75 inch (measured)
BFG A/Ts
distance driven: 2880 miles
number of fill ups: 14
gallons of fuel used: 275.217
average MPG: 11.76
best tank: 12.37 MPG
worst tank: 9.8 MPG
average cost per/gal: $3.05
total cost of fuel: $765.98
cost per mile driven: $0.2659653
That tank that netted me 9.8 MPG, was the one I complained to Walt about
suspecting the gas pump was ripping me off. And after figuring the
milage on that tank compared to every other tank MG figure, I suspect
that pump was rigged more than before. It said I pumped 7.551 gallons
into my tank when the gauge was reading 3/4 full or something like that.
I know how my truck fills and can predict about how many gallons it
will take to fill based upon the gauge reading, and I can't believe that
it sucked down 7.5 gallons of fuel. Anyone think I should call someone
about that station? With the cost of fuel I don't think I'm being
paranoid. That station soaked me $3.159/g for 91 octane.
My entire fuel log for the Ram (since I started keeping records again)
is posted to http://members.aol.com/silvereightynine/fuel_log.html
I was suprised to see that I got as good fuel economy as I did. With
the amount of time the engine spent in high RPM, climbing hills and
mountains and crawling on trails...running the A/C the entire time... to
see so many tanks @ 12 MPG was nice. I was expecting high 10's to low
11's. I have a feeling the bed cover that I had installed helped. I
also am running the HyperTech at optomized 87 fuel settings, which
helped out on the hills that I seemed to find in Iowa. (weird state)
I want to say again just what a wonderful time I had in CO. I drove away
all mushy and weepy and sad to leave everyone behind. It sucks to have
everyone so far away! The places we saw, i could have spent days at.
Garden Of The Gods may have been flooded with tourists awith cameras
(hey, I was one of them!) but the trails were awesome and despite the
heat that day I'm sorry I didn;t have a chance to walk more of them. I
would have loved to have got on more technical and difficult offroad
trails too, as well as spent time crawling the hills with paintball gear.
I'm still sorry I didn't get to see the brewery and I really wanted to
go drag racing. Jon put a lot of effort into the DML Virtual Drag
Racing software and the trophies and I was dissapointed we didn't get to
do that. I would hope we get to do that in the future, as I've never
been down a 1/4 mile before. Maybe next time I'll have something that
moves down that strip a little faster :)
Time to go unpack the truck finally... and see what the hell can be done
with the Neon. When I find my camera cable I'll post the pics.
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