Gas mileage eye opener---

i got 20mpg out of my 55 fairlane with the original drivetrain including the junky teapot carb and at the time the points in the malory dizzy were all but gone i swaped the malory for a stock repalcment and am planing to getrid of the teapot for a newer 500cfm holey and i think ill get even better

 

Sorry I didn't follow this post but he's paying on a Lexus, Acura and a dodge pick up. he wants the wife to buy a new nissan to save on gas in the Lexus and is worried about high mile depreciation. I just laugh in his face, and tell him he makes way to much money

 

He is an IDIOT.....and makes too much money.

 

That's a 42% increase...what did you anticipate?

 

In a perfect world, I was looking for a 50% increase. (6 cylinders is 50% more than 4 cylinders)----However, I knew that the gain would not be truly proportional.

 

what kind of car did they buy paying 1600 a month??

 

See Post #126

 

50% of the cylinders, but you still have 100% of the rest of the pumps, brakes, bearings, wheels, belts, body, aero drag, weight, etc. to haul around.

 

So, all of the attempts have been successful?



Mutt

 

Half again as much friction too.

 

My (retired) 77 Chevy three-quarter ton truck 350 V/8 (third engine) was retired as it was starting in on its 2nd Million miles..my current same 86 Chevy truck, 2nd engine, is moving up on Half Million miles, don't really care about the mileage as I make sure I'm always carrying stuff, workin the truck..64 Riviera, 400,000 miles on first rebuild....

 

That MPG sounds right. I put 4.10 LSD in my 04 ranger and larger tires with no change in the hwy MPG but higher city MPG because of the torque multiplication even though the rolling radius of the new tires and new ratio ended up within 2% of the stock tires and rearend. I wound get 28 to 30MPG with a light load and a Leer shell on the bed. It wouldn't tow much and I got tired of shifting so my son-in-law has it now. I Bought an 07 GMC Sierra cl***ic with the 4.3 V6 automatic for my short commute.

 

Well squirrel; seeing as how this subject has come to the surface again.
I did a little more "digging."

Here is a "break down" of what it costs to build some of the vehicles - and their dollar + fuel cost - over an expected span of time and mileage.

http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/DUST PDF VERSION.pdf

Scan down the page. It gets to a "Dust to Dust" study. Notice the comparison of the Hummer
to the Prius in "OVER ALL" mileage costs.

 

Remembering Brian's wonderful post about mileage,
I came across this site and found the fellow to be a fine experimenter. He lives in Maine, so the car has a good heater! Enjoy.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze6omtd/jorysquibb/id20.html



I also found this site which in three pages mentions some of the issues surrounding the report by CNW, where H1's were touted as "cleaner" than the hybrid cars, ex: Prius.
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache...eting+research+inc"&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us

 

Probably not, they ****ed as diesels go. But the idea of using biodiesel is good. I saw a mythbusters episode where they actually ran an 80's era Mercedes Benz with a diesel engine and used old cooking oil from McDonalds or someplace similar. All they did was filter it, they didn't even make it into biodiesel. It was pretty cool.

 

What kind of mileage does the Prius get? My '90 Civic with the 1.5L/5 speed gets a fairly consistent 40 mpg.

I would like to see the car companies pushing manual transmissions instead of hybrid technology. All those cars idling at stop lights, with the engines under load since the trans is in drive and the brakes are holding the car back.

I'm also a diesel fan, I have a '73 220D Mercedes and would love it if my '90 300TE wagon had a diesel/5 speed in it.

My truck only gets driven when I need to haul something. I've been driving my '57 Chevy daily for the past month or so and I'm surprised at how ****ty mileage it gets with the 235/glide in it. I bet it would do much better with the 265 and a more highway-geared rearend, which I will eventually do.

 

Yeah, my 'glide shifts up at about 15 mph so by the time I'm doing 55 the motor's already turning high RPM's. And I absolutely baby that motor, I try to do 50 everywhere I go and never get on it hard. If I had a bit more motor and could move the shift point up a bit, it'd be better. Just a taller rear tire would probably do a lot.

My '60 Fury has a 318 Poly V8 with a 3 speed Torqflite and I got 24mpg with it on one long trip, probably got 20 average. 3 speed automatics were really a step in the right direction.

 

Is that poly topped with a 2-bbl?

~Jason

 

Wow, a local! I'm from KC North.

While it's true, the early Olds diesels bit (HARD enough to sour the American public on them for decades), the improvements and recall stuff they did on the later ones really helped them a lot (but came too late for them to save face). It would be nice to have a motor that had a BOP bolt pattern. And they put them in Chevys, Buicks, Olds, Pontiac, and Cadillac - that's a lot of different motor mounts to choose from.

~Jason

 

the vehicle of the future



why not a corvette instead?

taken from chevrolet.com Corvette Mileage

Engine EPA estimated MPG city/hwy.
6.0L LS2 V8
six-speed manual transmission 18/28
Six-Speed Paddle Shift with Automatic Modes 17/27
7.0 LS7 V8
six-speed manual transmission 16/26​

 

my 61 ranchero gets about 28 mpg so far as i have logged. It has a 200 ford 6 with duraspark ignition, carter yf carb,2.5'' exhaust with a gl***pack, and 3 on the tree. Fun lil car too