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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 12:58 AM
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Combination City/Hiway is 16.8 mpg, straight hiway is 17.5, all hand calculated. Motor is stock with 148,000 miles on the clock. 33x12.5x16.5 wildcats for tires, 3.55 gearing, auto tranny, 4x4, 1999 Sport QC, I am about to try Drew,s fuel coctail. I know it works, I run the PS in my 84 Shakeliner and got the milage up to 4.4 mpg
 
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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 02:37 AM
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I went for the 18-19.

Thats 75/25 highway/city (hand).

Straight highway (unloaded) I run 20-21.5 @72 mph (2100 rpm). The heads up tells me 22.5

Thats a huge dif from my (Hemi) gasser.

All stock so far running:

16oz PS grey bottle and 8oz of MMO / tank.
3.73 rears
48RE 4 speed auto 4X4
stock wheels / tires

5" MBRP cat back exhaust, Bully Dog Tripple Dog, & AirRaid Intake comming Friday! [sm=drooldude.gif]

 
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Old Jun 5, 2006 | 12:57 PM
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I just started using Drews mix. My last trip with 5th wheel rv was getting 12.5 mpg on the tank I checked with load. This was about 1.5 mpg better than pre mix. Haven't had an oppurtunity to check a full tank unloaded yet. Was getting a little over 17mpg, in town, unloaded before using mix. Think I may be having lift pump problems so will be going to dealer this week.

1. Stock 2002 ex-cab 2500 2WD, long wheel base
2. H/O CTD
3. 6 speed manual
4. 3.73 rear end
5. K&N drop in air filter
6. Banks turbo boost and EGT guages
 
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Old Jun 5, 2006 | 07:49 PM
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19MPG, 04.5 with ~19Kmiles

1) Bully Dog Power Pup- Tow Mode
2) Drew's Brew (as cj5nutz put it)
3) 6spd NV5600
4) 3.73
5) 4wd
 
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 01:41 AM
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2006 quad cab 4x4. K&N intake (tube and filter), Bully Dog programmer, and free flow muffler with stock 4" piping. with drews mix of mmo and dk and all this, and keeping my foot out of it, i'm hittin the 18 to 19 range. this is hand calculated, while the trip comp. says 17 at best. its kinda hard in this part of texas b/c there are no flat roads here.
 
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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 01:22 AM
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18-19 mpg 60hwy/40cty
04.5 2wd long bed w/ replacement bumpers & headache rack
6spd man. w/ 3.73
AEM intake,silencer ring and muffler MIA, other than that,stock
Drews Brew last 2 tanks


Keith
 
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Old Jun 12, 2006 | 06:28 PM
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Drew, mine's, 2005 CTD Quad Cab is pretty stock with the exception of my tires 305's, but my overhead which deosn't apper to be any different than my speedo, says 14.7. Now like I said with the bigger tires i haven't had the chance to takeit in and get the speedo calibrated for those tires! Does this add miles quicker or slower with the bigger tires?
 
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Old Jun 12, 2006 | 06:31 PM
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ooops didn't read the info, 2005 ctd quad, 4-11's, run 16oz power servce with the 8oz of marvels mo, 305 tires, other than that stock....14-15mpg.
 
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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 05:56 PM
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04 3500 QC SRW 4X4, automatic, 4.10's, 305/70/17 maxxis buckshot mudders. i have an aFe filter kit, and run the power service (grey bottle)/mmo mixture as recommended on this site. before the bigger tires i was getting 17.2 hwy and 15.5 city. put the tires on and it went down to 14.9 hwy and 13.3 city. once i started using the ps/mmo, my mileage is back up to 17.1 hwy and 14.9 city. i cant believe how much the ps/mmo helped! i am glad i found this site and it is nice to "chat" with people who know what they are talking about.
 
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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 06:18 PM
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Drew, mine's, 2005 CTD Quad Cab is pretty stock with the exception of my tires 305's, but my overhead which deosn't apper to be any different than my speedo, says 14.7. Now like I said with the bigger tires i haven't had the chance to takeit in and get the speedo calibrated for those tires! Does this add miles quicker or slower with the bigger tires?
sorry I havent gotten back to you on this but you will be adding the miles quicker than what the speedo says.

lets say your doing 60mph. with your 305's you might have about a 10% offset on your speedo so that means you are actualy doing 66mph.
 
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