Miles per gallon - What are you getting?
#81
09-03-2012, 01:37 PM
my last 2 measurements -
one tank was a nice steady 50-55 highway trip with very few start/stops and overdrive on. tires aired up to 60 psi. i had a big load of wood for half the trip and empty the other half. it got 16.0. i'm happy boy...
the other tank was around town, all stop and go: 12.7. not happy boy.
one tank was a nice steady 50-55 highway trip with very few start/stops and overdrive on. tires aired up to 60 psi. i had a big load of wood for half the trip and empty the other half. it got 16.0. i'm happy boy...
the other tank was around town, all stop and go: 12.7. not happy boy.
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09-03-2012, 02:37 PM
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09-04-2012, 12:05 AM
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#84
09-05-2012, 01:53 AM
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When I was in Montana...... We stopped for gas at some hole-in-the-wall place.... and while we were there, I commented that it was pretty breezy...... The guy runnin' the show there looked at me, and smiled. He told me the way they measure wind in Montana is hook a fence post to a tree using a log chain...... if the fence post is laying on the ground, it's "calm". If the fence post is standing straight out on the chain, its "breezy". if the fence post is slapping around at the end of the chain, and snapping links, THEN the wind is blowing. 
Same trip, got 14.4 with my SC set on the 91, running 91. It was running 88(no ethanol) and the Mileage Tune the first time.
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09-06-2012, 05:39 AM
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#87
09-06-2012, 10:50 AM
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I'm seeing around 14 average right now.. I just ordered up some new wheels and tires.. I'm dropping the 20" motometal 951 hoops with cepek fcii 35"x12.5" rubbers for 17" hoops and duragrapplers in 285/75/17's (34x11).. I hope to drastically decrease rolling resistance and lighten the rotational weight..
along with an alignment (badly needed), maybe, just maybe, I'll jump to 16mpg average..
#88
09-06-2012, 03:52 PM
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by the way ppl....always drive downhill. cheapest mod ever to boost mpg.
#89
09-06-2012, 04:34 PM
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I crossed Wyoming from Evanston to Cheyenne one fine November and tallied 14 rigs that had experienced unintentional rotation about the long axis resulting in reduced height of center of gravity and corresponding reduction of wind loading area. We heard several of them in their moments of anxiety on the CB, all of them speaking either of excrement or deity.
