Re: Re: New MPG Record!

From: Patrick Delgado (dadoctah@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Mar 08 1999 - 14:38:03 EST


Reason #1-It's a 4X4, #2-it's a 5.2, #3-life's unfair.
Hey! It's a cool truck and Daks rock. Even if your grandma was Shirley
Milldowney(sp?) it would still get the same suck a*s numbers. So step on it
and enjoy the ride.
BTW, is your truck fully broken in yet? The mileage gets a little better.
Dr. Pat
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>From: Mark Mitchell <thorfinn@xta.com>
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Subject: DML: Re: New MPG Record!
>Date: Mon, Mar 8, 1999, 5:24 PM
>

> I have been testing my mpg and I am getting right around 11 or 12 mpg. I
> have a 99 4x4 5.2 v8 and I have been driving like a grandma. Anybody have
> ideas why so low???
>
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fishman <fish@chips.Eng.Sun.COM>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 11:14 AM
> Subject: DML: New MPG Record!
>
>
>>I hit a new MPG record this morning on the trip to work - 17.1MPG! It's a
> 20
>>mile trip, mostly city, with a top speed of about 45mph, mostly 35mph and
> under.
>> Nothing special about the trip this morning, and it took me 40 minutes.
>>
>>As you may recall, I swapped out a 3" Gibson single catback for a 2.5" 3
> chamber
>>Flowmaster single catback. Other mods: K&N dropin, JBA headers, Magnecor
> wires,
>>Champion Truck Plugs.
>>
>>All this and stronger lowend than with the 3" exhaust. I'm jazzed!!
>>
>>Good day,
>>fish
>>
>



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