Please explain this!!!
07-07-2004, 11:20 PM
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St. Jude Donor '10
Please explain this!!!
Checked my gas mileage the other week after doing a poker run. Got 13.9 mpg which I didn't think was bad considering running a/c, driving like H---, some 80/90 mph runs, mountain twisties, you name it. Checked it today after driving the car like normal people should (no fun tho) and got 12.5mpg. What's up with that?? 
Keep in mind it's a stock L-48, 3:70 gears, automatic, except for intake, headers, duals which should help mpg. Was hoping to get at least 15 or 16 driving right!!
Guess I'll go back to driving like H---!!!
Thanks!!
Keep in mind it's a stock L-48, 3:70 gears, automatic, except for intake, headers, duals which should help mpg. Was hoping to get at least 15 or 16 driving right!!Guess I'll go back to driving like H---!!!
Thanks!!
07-08-2004, 03:32 PM
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Not sure why you've run up against different MPG figures. I used to get 18 MPG in my '74 L-48 daily driver when she was nicely tuned.
07-08-2004, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by DP77Vette
Checked my gas mileage the other week after doing a poker run. Got 13.9 mpg which I didn't think was bad considering running a/c, driving like H---, some 80/90 mph runs, mountain twisties, you name it. Checked it today after driving the car like normal people should (no fun tho) and got 12.5mpg. What's up with that?? Keep in mind it's a stock L-48, 3:70 gears, automatic, except for intake, headers, duals which should help mpg. Was hoping to get at least 15 or 16 driving right!!
Guess I'll go back to driving like H---!!!
Thanks!!
Keep in mind it's a stock L-48, 3:70 gears, automatic, except for intake, headers, duals which should help mpg. Was hoping to get at least 15 or 16 driving right!!Guess I'll go back to driving like H---!!!
Thanks!!
07-08-2004, 08:19 PM
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On the run, you were probably doing mostly highway driving? Not many starts and stop. Then later, you were probably doing city driving? A lot of stops and starts. That is why.
07-08-2004, 08:35 PM
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I don't need no stinkin gas mileage 
I get 10 miles per gallon with the new 406ci not bad really
I get 10 miles per gallon with the new 406ci not bad really
07-09-2004, 07:56 AM
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I checked the mpg on my 73 once- scared the crap out of me. So now I just drive it and fill it and drive it some more.
Last edited by redwingvette; 07-09-2004 at 07:59 AM.
07-09-2004, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by redwingvette
I checked the mpg on my 73 once- scared the crap out of me. So now I just drive it and fill it and drive it some more.
07-09-2004, 12:14 PM
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Miles per gallon???? What's that... Heck, my wife still wants to know why the garage smells like gas when I back from a cruise... Told her it's called a carb! (grunt...grunt). Not the modern injection stuff the other two cars have... "smells like horsepower to me"... 
