RE: re: 4x4 MPG

From: fawcett@uism.bu.edu
Date: Fri Sep 04 1998 - 21:27:19 EDT


     Huhhh?!!!!
     
     Man! I dream about 18MPG highway! My mileage is the same as Drews and
     I have a '98 318 CC 4X4...
     
     You guys with the older trucks getin' high MPG's out of your V8s are
     really bumming me out! How are you guys computin' MPG anyway? I
     prefer the old fashioned tank full to tank full as I don't trust the
     console computers.
     
     T.
     Bummed about my MPG in Boston.
     
     P.S. Still haven't burned enough fuel to see if my JBA's have helped
     matters.
     
     <<I have a '94 4x4 V-8 CC. I've got a drop in K&N, Borla
     (2.5in/2.5out) muffler, Castrol GTX 10w40 w/ fram tuffguard(sic?),
     Champion Truck Plugs, Jacob's wires, and run on 30x9.50r15's. I only
     run '92 octane from Unocal, Mobile, or Texaco. Lately I've been
     getting around 16 mpg on my daily driving... mostly 12 miles (avg.
     70mph) each way to work on the freeway, 7 miles (50mph) each way to
     school on the road (two stop lights). Last weekend I went hunting and
     after the 160 mile drive averaging between 70 and 80 I ended up
     getting 18.3 mpg.
     Hope this helps droopie?
     
     Travis
     
     Thanks, Travis.
     
     I'm not too worried about it since I get paid mileage anyway. I just
     was wondering if there was something amiss. I didn't buy the 4x4
     expecting to get the 35mpg that my Stratus got, but remember my 4x2 CC
     '94 V6 getting 22mpg and a guy with a 4x4 CC 94 V8 pulling up to me
     one
     day and saying that he got 20mpg. He was in his 50's at least so I
     believed him.
     Oh well, I was hoping for a good excuse to get the wife to let me get
     the Jet computer.
     
     - --
     Drew Schofield
     1998 Sport 4x4 5.2 CC Black>>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:09:46 EDT