i bet that truck smokes

 

Pssh. I have a 5.2L 2wd. Done the plenum. Get the same MPG, but now I have an oil leak

Cold air intake, nothing but a sucking sound.
Brand new tires, well they look good.
Both of the o2 sensors are stock, but truck runs good, and its only got 75K on it. UGH..

If you want good MPG Get a ford.

 

As Miami said, if it says "Dodge" on it, you are s*** outta luck. I got the 3.9l, with a 5speed and i get 10-13 city, and 15-17 hwy. I basically have a v8 gas mileage with a v6. Stinkin parents...

On another note. Does anyone know if the 2002 models (3rd gen's) with the 360 get better mileage than the 2nd gens with the 360? Id imagine not. but just wondering. (im stuck between a cummins, any year thats affordable, or a 3rd gen Ram, no newer than 2005 when i graduate)

 

it is funny how these truck haven't really gotten any better on fuel in 45 years. some of the older carburated 318 can get between 18-25mpg.

 

well, if you think about it, before 2001, gas was pretty cheap. With 9/11 and the war, it has caused it to go up quite a bit. So if gas is cheap, why make it fuel efficient.----thats what dodge said. I am sure they also said, why make a sturdy dashboard, or a good transmission.

 

I had a '75 Ramcharger and a '79 Powerwagon, both 4X4 with 318s, and neither ever got better than 15mpg.

 

Exactly.
Same thing that killed the 60's and early 70's muscle cars.
No one was concerned about good mileage until the A-rab oil embargo, then all of the sudden thats all anyone thought about, ,, Then woosh, those gas sucking queens of the road were terminated almost over night.

I have the best/worse of both worlds, I got a 2nd gen Ram and a 1968 Firebird 400, talk about poor mileage, the gas gauge goes nearly as fast as the speed gauge, plus I can only run high octane in it, otherwise it pings & backfires half to death.
But hell, I knew going in that both sucked down the gas, I'd rather pay for the privilege of driving a decent vehicle than tooling around in a Probe or something.
Plus trucks give your options you can't have with cars, whens the last time you seen someone in a Fiesta with a fridge on the roof ?
In my Firebird, men look at me with envy, woman look at me with lust [... I'm pretty sure its lust!] ,,, and little kids look at my ride like it was a space ship, and beg me to spin my wheels, which I usually oblige.
All of this comes at a price, and thats **** poor gas mileage.

 

The Muscle car era was going extinct in 1972 as emissions and insurance rates escalated. Gas was a minor player in the game until the 1974 oil embargo,
FF

 

i didn't say all 318's got 18-25mpg. the carburated engines could be fine tuned and if you got it just right it could get that good gas milage. being 4x4 doesn't helps with gas milage but manual locking hubs can usually help.

 

Thats about what I said - And it was a minor player in recent times, until gas spiked up to near $5 a gallon.