Whats everyones MPG for their LT1's?
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03-15-2008, 04:54 PM
#32
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio, midwestern
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I use to get 20-25mpg Highway and it seemed like 16-19 mpg City.....Just got my car back from a 3 year lease to my dad
(sold it to him for the money I needed, got a decent job and paid him what he gave me and now I got her back
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(sold it to him for the money I needed, got a decent job and paid him what he gave me and now I got her back)
03-15-2008, 05:15 PM
#33
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Shelton, WA
Posts: 954
City: 16-17mpg
Highway: 27-28mpg
With bolt ons (CAI, headers, catback, MSD 6A), I'd get 30-32mpg on the highway with stock 3.42 gears. I lost about 2mpg just changing to 3.73s and around 1-2mpg with the cam/heads swap.
Highway: 27-28mpg
With bolt ons (CAI, headers, catback, MSD 6A), I'd get 30-32mpg on the highway with stock 3.42 gears. I lost about 2mpg just changing to 3.73s and around 1-2mpg with the cam/heads swap.
03-15-2008, 11:46 PM
#34
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Langley, BC Canada
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Just crunching numbers. Is this right? If so my car is a fuel hog!
275 km to a tank of gas
50 liters cost $57
275/57 = 5.5 5.5 liters to the kilometer?
5.5 kilometers thats 3.4 miles???
I hope Im wrong here somewhere
275 km to a tank of gas
50 liters cost $57
275/57 = 5.5 5.5 liters to the kilometer?
5.5 kilometers thats 3.4 miles???
I hope Im wrong here somewhere
03-16-2008, 12:48 AM
#35
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Why did you divide the number of kM traveled by the cost in $ (57)? Well, actually you didn't do what you typed... you divided kM / liters and got 5.5 kM / liter (not liters / kM)
You drove 275 kM = 171 miles
You bought 50 L of fuel = 13.2 gallons (this assumes your tank was full when you started and was filled to the same level again avter 275 kM).
171 miles / 13.2 gallons = 12.9 miles/gallon
You drove 275 kM = 171 miles
You bought 50 L of fuel = 13.2 gallons (this assumes your tank was full when you started and was filled to the same level again avter 275 kM).
171 miles / 13.2 gallons = 12.9 miles/gallon
03-16-2008, 09:38 AM
#36
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Location: Lansing, MI via Bowling Green, KY: Dalton, GA: Nashville, TN & Atlanta, GA
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I used to get mid teens city and upper 20's highway. I'm hoping that improves a little due to the headers & exhaust. Should I expect to see an improvement after those mods?
03-16-2008, 11:22 PM
#39
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Location: Kansas
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with bolt ons, id get 19-20 mainly city driving with some highway
straight highway, upper 20s
now with the turbo....too scared
that was with 156k on the clock, and long tubes, true duals, and a cold air intake
straight highway, upper 20s
now with the turbo....too scared
that was with 156k on the clock, and long tubes, true duals, and a cold air intake
Last edited by reamo04; 03-16-2008 at 11:38 PM.
03-17-2008, 06:10 PM
#42
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 63
I CONSISTENTLY got 18 city and 27 hwy when i was bone stock and 6 speed. Red93camaro- I was in the exact position you were last year, I had a 140k 3.4l 5 speed. I really wanted to get a Z but was afraid of the gas mileage. then one day last fall i said @#$#$ It ! sold my slow *** dog v6 and bought the car i have now, and while it was stock i hardly noticed a difference in mpg's !!! I was amazed. my city mpg dropped by maybe 2 or 3 but my hwy basically stayed the same. my old v6 ran beautiful and got about 21mpg avg. honestly for how much more fun the Z is you WONT care you'll barely notice. The only regret i have is not selling and going to the Z sooner. do it man you will not regret it in the least.
04-09-2008, 03:48 AM
#44
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Location: Cody,Wyoming 82414
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usually run 17-19 in town 27-30 highway. I drove from Cody, Wy to Billings, MT last trip in my car and ran damn near 30mpg. (190 miles round trip)
Better than any of my previous bolt-on f-bodies...
Better than any of my previous bolt-on f-bodies...
