4.7 doesnt have jack on the hemi
#31
Just lie teacher...don't break the mans heart and tell him he gets worse mileage with 110 less hp .
Seriously though...this truck gets the best mpg of any truck i've owned. Bone stock I was getting high 24's on the highway going 65....high 16's in town. I dunno what I get since the tune and couple mods...it's in the same ballpark even with MDS disabled.
Also the hemi will get better mpg as load increases...like towing/hauling. More torque means less engine load required to maintain speed....means better mpg.
Seriously though...this truck gets the best mpg of any truck i've owned. Bone stock I was getting high 24's on the highway going 65....high 16's in town. I dunno what I get since the tune and couple mods...it's in the same ballpark even with MDS disabled.
Also the hemi will get better mpg as load increases...like towing/hauling. More torque means less engine load required to maintain speed....means better mpg.
Last edited by bigbuckhunter; 01-12-2009 at 11:56 PM.
#32
WOW!!! I thank you sooo much for caring about my feelings and heart. Im reading this thread and what everyone has to say and I started thinking... geez maybe my truck really does get crap for mpg, and maybe the hemi isnt all that bad on gas. So I went back to the thread titled "mpgs what are you getting?". I gotta tell ya, apparently you guys bought the special trucks because not one person on the mpg thread with a hemi got more than 21 mpg hwy. But in this thread people are getting an astonishing 24mpg on the hwy. The average mpg was around 14.7mpg. not far from my friends 13.5mpg. So here i sit all broken harted..you opened your mouth and only farted.
I can see why you're defensive though...I would be too if I bought the 4.7 for better mpg but in the end all I got was less power Believe what ya want dude...it's not changing the amount of fuel in my tank.
#33
wow the hostility, kidding, dont start bashing me. I have a 08 4.7l QCSB 4X4, I love it. Talking about gas mileage, I did a trip recently trying to see the top mileage I could get, I got 18mpg, I was stoked about it, but I hate driving like a grandma. So on the way back I got 14.5mpg. That was much more exciting of a trip. It is all about how you drive guy's. Oh yeah if you put the truck into a mud hole then you will get about 4mpg lol
#34
The post below yours stated 12.7 but use your head if I had all of this...
"04 RAM 4.7 LTR QC , 5 SPEED MANUAL
KnN cai-- v force dual catback exhaust sys-- 180 stat-- asp pulley-- e fan --ngk sp --H/O cams--jba headers--superchips 3815-- 70 mm tb --AR powerwire-- future and here soon >>>> 4:56 gears w/auburn lsd , ported heads+springs/valve/pistons combo "
...Chances are I would have my foot buried somewhere deep in the floorboard. My point inst about less hp, its about less mpg! so if you need that hemi to compensate and help youself sleep thats your problem. Im not in a peeing for distance contest about HP or Tq. Im simply making the point that the gas milage was worth the lack of Hp. read the name of the thread. my overall point in my response to the thread is that the jack the 4.7 DOES have on the hemi is the mpg. But since you felt you needed to go 95 pages back to prove your point, I'll be big enough to say congrats....you have the highest Mpg hemi on this forum.
"04 RAM 4.7 LTR QC , 5 SPEED MANUAL
KnN cai-- v force dual catback exhaust sys-- 180 stat-- asp pulley-- e fan --ngk sp --H/O cams--jba headers--superchips 3815-- 70 mm tb --AR powerwire-- future and here soon >>>> 4:56 gears w/auburn lsd , ported heads+springs/valve/pistons combo "
...Chances are I would have my foot buried somewhere deep in the floorboard. My point inst about less hp, its about less mpg! so if you need that hemi to compensate and help youself sleep thats your problem. Im not in a peeing for distance contest about HP or Tq. Im simply making the point that the gas milage was worth the lack of Hp. read the name of the thread. my overall point in my response to the thread is that the jack the 4.7 DOES have on the hemi is the mpg. But since you felt you needed to go 95 pages back to prove your point, I'll be big enough to say congrats....you have the highest Mpg hemi on this forum.
Last edited by bigbuckhunter; 01-13-2009 at 12:40 AM.
#35
your right muns and so are you severed. mpg does depend on alot of different things. the driver, modifications, rating of fuel, year of truck,if the truck has mds, amount of lift, how close to a semi your following, wind,ect...bottom line if you put the same driver in both trucks on the same course we know which one would win the mpg battle.
there I said all Im going to say, I hope I havent ruffeled too many feathers,Im wavin the white flag severed. the hemi is a heck of a truck. wish i could have afforded one when i bought my 4.7.
there I said all Im going to say, I hope I havent ruffeled too many feathers,Im wavin the white flag severed. the hemi is a heck of a truck. wish i could have afforded one when i bought my 4.7.
#36
im stil trying to figure out who gives a s!!t if one truck is getting x-mpgs and another is getting y-mpgs. i bought a truck and knew that mpgs werent in the equation. i bought this truck cause it was the fastest, baddest looking truck i had driven. gas mileage??? who gives a f!!! about gas mileage. want good gas mileage??? take the bus. was that out of line? my bad.
#37
opened your mouth and only farted again!! The post below yours stated 12.7 but use your head if I had all of this...
"04 RAM 4.7 LTR QC , 5 SPEED MANUAL
KnN cai-- v force dual catback exhaust sys-- 180 stat-- asp pulley-- e fan --ngk sp --H/O cams--jba headers--superchips 3815-- 70 mm tb --AR powerwire-- future and here soon >>>> 4:56 gears w/auburn lsd , ported heads+springs/valve/pistons combo "
...Chances are I would have my foot buried somewhere deep in the floorboard. My point inst about less hp, its about less mpg! so if you need that hemi to compensate and help youself sleep thats your problem. Im not in a peeing for distance contest about HP or Tq. Im simply making the point that the gas milage was worth the lack of Hp. read the name of the thread. my overall point in my response to the thread is that the jack the 4.7 DOES have on the hemi is the mpg. But since you felt you needed to go 95 pages back to prove your point, I'll be big enough to say congrats....you have the highest Mpg hemi on this forum.
"04 RAM 4.7 LTR QC , 5 SPEED MANUAL
KnN cai-- v force dual catback exhaust sys-- 180 stat-- asp pulley-- e fan --ngk sp --H/O cams--jba headers--superchips 3815-- 70 mm tb --AR powerwire-- future and here soon >>>> 4:56 gears w/auburn lsd , ported heads+springs/valve/pistons combo "
...Chances are I would have my foot buried somewhere deep in the floorboard. My point inst about less hp, its about less mpg! so if you need that hemi to compensate and help youself sleep thats your problem. Im not in a peeing for distance contest about HP or Tq. Im simply making the point that the gas milage was worth the lack of Hp. read the name of the thread. my overall point in my response to the thread is that the jack the 4.7 DOES have on the hemi is the mpg. But since you felt you needed to go 95 pages back to prove your point, I'll be big enough to say congrats....you have the highest Mpg hemi on this forum.
And my point of this thread is the 4.7 doesn't have anything over the hemi at all...including mpg. It's a good OHC motor that has potential but that's all i'll give it. So to keep it short the hemi gets around the same mpg unloaded...gets better mpg loaded. Aren't you glad you bought your 4.7?
And if you actually believe my 2wd RCSB 3.55 rear would get the same mpg as a QCSB 4x4 (most of the guys here) then you really have no clue.
#39
I havn't played with an 09 hemi truck but with my rcsb and the stick shift i can edge out a hemi qcsb and a rcsb hemi i can keep up with. Either way i'd rather have the 4.7L and the stick shift. all the hemi owners will wish they did too when they get to 70k miles and they wonder wtf is going on with their transmission. 545rfe for the win haha. at least i can flog my g238 and go home feeling like this truck will last. can't say that with an autotragic