Mileage

[fastTa]

Originally posted by mirroredshades:

Is this something I can do? I have more time than money right now.

This has to be done with specialized equipment. But worth the money

Originally posted by Joe K. 96 Zeee!!:

Just curious, but had you tried a fuel injector cleaner prior to that? I use some about every other oil change.

Yeah, I used Chevron Techron. I just did alot of stop and go driving which with our emissions systems is very bad as far as heat hardened deposits.

[Bojangles1432]

Maybe i need to get my fuel injectors cleaned seeing at how low my mileage is compared to most.

[95z28]

I get about 200 to the tank in mine ... shes only got 35 k on her too

[PhantomZ28]

i dont know why but i get about 220 miles to the tank thats wrong with my car its a 97 lt1 so its about15 mpg ON HIGHWAY!!
i have thestock rear end on an M6 just wonderin
thanks

[Barry 94Formula]

I get about 200 to a tank but she ain't exactly stock. I think I need to have the PCM reprogrammed.

[WICKED LT1]

The last long road trip (to Bowling Green :-) ) got me about 27-29 mpg highway. The stop and go stuff gets me about 18 or so.

65K on the clock. 95 M6 T/A


-Paul

[alenstein]

Damn .. I am getting 160miles from the gas tank these days, its been cold here, and I drive around mostly in the city, i do about 10 miles high way driving each day. So this cant be right guys, am getting 10-11 miles to a gallon ??? I always reset the the dial evrytime I go pump gas. In the summer average I was getting 190miles. hmm..

[pwmin]

i dont know what im getting yet. im thinking about 10 until i put 373 or 410's in, then probably 8 or less. damn carburetors!. my riv gets about 22 and my blazer gets about 15 (damn tbi) , but i do a lot of city driving. by far, the best fuel injector cleaner is bg44k.

[Joe K. 99 Zeee!!]

Originally posted by alenstein
Damn .. I am getting 160miles from the gas tank these days, its been cold here, and I drive around mostly in the city, i do about 10 miles high way driving each day. So this cant be right guys, am getting 10-11 miles to a gallon ??? I always reset the the dial evrytime I go pump gas. In the summer average I was getting 190miles. hmm..

Do you have the stock gears or did you swap them out? Running a different cam? Something else major?

I'd say it's certainly possible to get milage like that, but you'd have to be idling the car a lot, heavy on the gas, or a combination of the two.

Are you using high octane? Have you tried fuel injector cleaner? It helps. I used it on my V6 after 35,000 miles and there was a definite, noticable difference. You can't rely on the cleaner in the gas.

My absolute worst city milage with the 3.42 gears in has been 17mpg.

[briantech]

All I do is Highway Driving...then again, if you live in Atlanta (close enough to claim Atlanta)...all you do is drive on the highway. Me personally...I've seen 27 mpg. But I hover around 23-25 all day.

I always fill my gas tank up when it hits the 1/4 left mark, and it ranges from 150-250 miles per fill up depending on whether or not I drove up to towncenter a couple times or not.

Live 3 miles from work but it still takes 15 minutes to get there, pretty much all of it stop and go. But thats cause I live *in* atlanta... not 30 miles outside of it.

I find it funny however that I can get to pretty much any part of downtown, midtown, buckhead, the highlands, or ansley park in about 15 minutes or less... but it takes me 30+ minutes to get anywhere noteworthy OUTside atlanta?

Atlanta's not the problem... its the mf'ing suburbs that screw everything up.


ps dj taso, i like your sig picture... once my ws6 hood gets here i'm gonna rip you off hardcore and do the same thing

[alenstein]

Do you have the stock gears or did you swap them out? Running a different cam? Something else major?

I'd say it's certainly possible to get milage like that, but you'd have to be idling the car a lot, heavy on the gas, or a combination of the two.

Are you using high octane? Have you tried fuel injector cleaner? It helps. I used it on my V6 after 35,000 miles and there was a definite, noticable difference. You can't rely on the cleaner in the gas.

My absolute worst city milage with the 3.42 gears in has been 17mpg.

As far as i know the car is completely stock, hmm excessive idling not really, i step on it once in a while but WOT is rare, I used to get a fuel odor coming from driver side rear wheel during the summer when idling after the car warmed up or when coming to a stop. ALways use 92 or higher, Ill give the fuel injector cleaner a try.. thanks

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

My car gets 23 on the highway and uses a lot more gas around town, but I don't know how much.

[Mirroredshades]

Wow, it sounds like a bunch of us LT1 guys are getting crappy milage. I once ran an entire tank out in 6th gear and I got 20. I need to get my fuel system checked out but dang, money is pooring out of me like a sieve. Everything I own needs something.

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

Originally posted by Mirroredshades
Wow, it sounds like a bunch of us LT1 guys are getting crappy milage. I once ran an entire tank out in 6th gear and I got 20. I need to get my fuel system checked out but dang, money is pooring out of me like a sieve. Everything I own needs something.

Sometimes I feel that way too. All of my little mechanical children are sucking the life out of me - they are always needful of new parts or batteries or fluids or TLC time. There's a lot of people that think I'm nutz and I can remember one time when I had 2 cars & 2 bikes (like now ) and nothing was running, so had to bum a ride to the parts store to get something running...