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Average gas mileage on an LT1?

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Old May 8, 2006 | 09:36 PM
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Re: Average gas mileage on an LT1?

mines about 15mpg, but that is in a 5000lb truck, lol
Old May 8, 2006 | 10:15 PM
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On the vert never under 20mpg in the city, max on the road has been 30mpg. Of course this is on a 30k mile, with a A4 and 2.73's. But when I drive it I do beat on it.
Old May 8, 2006 | 10:29 PM
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with 174000 on the slock I am still getting 20 to 22.5 with mix driving.
Old May 10, 2006 | 07:36 PM
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basicly stock 16 city 21 highway

just got 13.3 mostly city cause i put 89 in it.. hope thats what it was :O

52 bucks to go 200 miles
Old May 10, 2006 | 08:32 PM
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i seem to average 17 city with a few WOT runs and ive pulled 30 on the highway before.
Old May 10, 2006 | 09:21 PM
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I don't think i've ever done much better than 13-14 mpg in the city throughout the life of my car, but then again I bought the car to drive it hard and thats pretty much what ive done.
Old May 11, 2006 | 01:21 AM
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I hardly ever have mine on the higway, but on a few long trips with a cruise set at 75ish, with several 100+ strips late at night with no traffic/cops, it still averaged 24MPG highway. This is on a M6.

Around home, where I do most of my driving (My car sits alot too) it gets about 15-16MPG. I usually find myself doing at least one 0-60 run every other time I drive it or so. I always have used 93 octane in it. It seemed to get a hair better with headers and CAI.

Car has 16,XXX origional miles on it now.
Old May 11, 2006 | 02:02 AM
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I have never gotten over 20mpg over the 3 years I have owned my car. I even tried shifting 1-3-5-6 and setting cruise control at 75mph on the highway, and had about 90% highway driving on that tank, and only got like 17.5mpg. I spent over $300 in gas in the last month. I think my tune has to be way off or something, I'm trying to find someone to dyno tune it, mail order just doesn't cut it once you have heads/cam. A dyno tune would pay itself off in gas money too in ~6 months if I get better millage.
Old May 11, 2006 | 02:21 AM
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13 city 25 highway and driving like grandma the whole time
Old May 11, 2006 | 02:40 AM
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13 city, 24 highway.
Old May 11, 2006 | 02:48 AM
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about 14 in the city mostly short trips to work and back at about 10-12 min at a time. highway is was about 25-27 when i took it an a 360 mile trip just after i got the car
Old May 11, 2006 | 06:52 AM
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13-14 miles per gallon, 3000miles on new engine.
Old May 11, 2006 | 06:57 AM
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i wish that i could get 25-30 mpg on the highway
ALL of my driving is on the highway going back and fourth to school but my best was like 21.x on a trip of like 250 miles round trip
Old May 11, 2006 | 10:25 AM
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Re: Average gas mileage on an LT1?

Originally Posted by stereomandan
I have over 78k on mine now, and have tracked the milage since mile zero. I've averaged 21.5 mpg over the LIFE of the car. Strictly city driving, I'll get 18-19 mpg. All highway, about 27 mpg. I've seen a low of 16 mpg, and a high of 31 mpg. All #'s are full tank fill ups. I don't drive slow by any means. I like to have fun with the car. I don't baby it at all, but I don't mash the peddle from every light either.

Dan
Same here, I even scratched 30 mpg once with the headers/no cats once. I was doing around 75 mph though.

30 mpg stock was easily attainable, not sure why other people aren't getting it, although when I hit it that high I was keeping my foot out of it (<50% thottle or so).

Old May 11, 2006 | 10:32 AM
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Re: Average gas mileage on an LT1?

186K km's on my M6 w/ 3.42 gears. I have tracked mpg since I bought the car at 172k km's. I drive mainly in the city, and get about 14 mpg. On the highway, it goes up to 18+ mpg. I usually take it easy in normal driving, but I have a couple of races in between each fill up which probably kills my mileage. I have new wires/plugs and am waiting on new o2 sensors which I think will help raise fuel mileage somewhat.



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