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Old 04-23-2008, 10:46 PM
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i laffs at your rant.

i get 16-17mpg and have to use 93 octane at 3.80/gallon.

i get 19mpg if i drive like a 90-yr old woman on Prozac, so eff it, i drive like my usual retardo self.
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Old 04-24-2008, 02:36 AM
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ethanol is bad...mmmmkay.

I only fill up at chevron because they dont use it. sometimes I mix half a tank of premium with 87 or 89. my commute is 54 miles each way to work, driving the super tuned Gads mobile, 65-75 max speed I got just over 30 mpg. however traffic sux thursday and friday so ill take the jixxer to get on the hov lanes and refill my adrenalin
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Old 04-24-2008, 04:38 AM
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If I typically get 16mpg...
$4.00 / 16 = $.2500 / mile
$3.80 / 16 = $.2375 / mile

Hm, not much.

(7000 mi/yr) / (16 mi/gal) = 437.5 gal/yr

difference: $87.50 annual, $1.68/week

I can handle that.
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Old 04-24-2008, 05:16 AM
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i laffs at your rant.

i get 16-17mpg and have to use 93 octane at 3.80/gallon.

i get 19mpg if i drive like a 90-yr old woman on Prozac, so eff it, i drive like my usual retardo self.
Yeah I am in the same boat.
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Old 04-24-2008, 05:33 AM
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When I got my drivers lic, I had a car that got 25 mpg and gas was .24 CENTS!! Now I'm getting 19 MPG on a car that advertised 28 and the damned stuff is close to $4.00 per!!!
When I was a kid in the 1960s my dad drove a 4-door '61 Ford Falcon with a straight 6 and three-on-the-tree that probably got better gas mileage than anything any of us drive today. We've gone backward.

Automotive engines have become much more efficient in the past 30 years but instead of realizing better economy, these gains have been wasted powering larger vehicles with surplus horsepower. Stupid. So now we pay.

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Old 04-24-2008, 05:49 AM
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im lucky if i get 15 mpg with the svx...
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Old 04-24-2008, 06:38 AM
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I drive my Corolla, which currently averages about 30-31mpg mixed.

Of course, its a 3 speed automatic, 104 hp, no fun to drive, and probably would fold in an accident. I use it to go back and forth to school, so there's not much of a point to using the SVX unless I want myself to look presentable.
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Old 04-24-2008, 08:11 AM
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Of course, its a 3 speed automatic, 104 hp, no fun to drive, and probably would fold in an accident. I use it to go back and forth to school, so there's not much of a point to using the SVX unless I want myself to look presentable.
except at fancy occassions when you don't realize they do vallet.

Just paid 3.8-something a gallon yesterday.

I'm about ready to saddle up one of the horses to go out and about.
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Old 04-24-2008, 08:20 AM
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I have been driving the maxima around a little more than the SVX as it got 33mpg its last fill up. I was actually quite surprised and happy about that. The maxima is an awesome all around car.

I average around 23-27mpg in my SVX lately.

I paid 3.81/gal to fill up my SVX yesterday. I look for it to get a lot worse this summer.
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Old 04-24-2008, 08:21 AM
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Last year, I got 30 MPG on the way UP to Reading. Then, OT adjusted my TPS to spec and I got 27 going home. Oh well. This year, I got 28 MPG up and back...with 276K on the clock...old plugs...and a bad iris check valve.

Your first mistake is running anything less than 92 in the SVX engine. Lamboman tried it and wound up selling his SVX due to engine noise and poor mileage.

In my opinion (and this is just my opinion mind you), the SVX is so tightly engineered, if you go too far off spec on ANYTHING, you run the risk of throwing so many things off. Of course, I wouldn't be so confident in having an opinion if I didn't have an SVX with 276K on it.
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Old 04-24-2008, 09:09 AM
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Randy! Holy crap! I haven't seen you post in ages.

To be fair, I haven't looked.

Anyway, I have gotten just over 30mpg in my SVX, but I haven't driven it very far in years. I fill it up maybe a couple times a year, so I have no idea what it gets around town.

Still, I agree with Randy - I never put anything other than premium in it.

Now, the RX-8? Ow. I'm getting just over 10mpg in town, on premium. It does seem to be getting better; either I'm calming down or the previous owner didn't run it on premium and the car's getting used to it again.

Thankfully my commute is 2mi, round trip. I get a little bitter when I fill the car up, but since that's only every couple weeks I'm not that angry.
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Old 04-24-2008, 10:40 AM
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except at fancy occassions when you don't realize they do vallet.
Yea that was embarrassing showing up in the Corolla.

Also add taking the svx out when going somewhere nice.
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Old 04-24-2008, 10:51 AM
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These are the numbers for my silver SVX since February 29 of this year:

Gallons Pumped: 43.5 (19.61 regular, 10.07 midrange, 13.82 premium)
Miles Driven: 895.8
Fuel Mileage: 20.59 mpg

The best I recorded was a 134.7 mile boulevard/highway run: 27.6 mpg.

My average for both my (bone stock) cars, which do mostly cold-transmission commuting, is 21+.

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Old 04-24-2008, 12:20 PM
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My 92 with 4.11 will do about 20 to 22 MPG on the highway.

I bought an 97 Audi A4 that get 33 to 35 MPG highway and that is on low grade. I let my wife drive it for one day and she killed my average MPG down to 30 MPG. It all depends on how you drive.

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Old 04-24-2008, 03:01 PM
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besides the driving slower and not flooring it, is there really anything else i can do to improve gas mileage?
i use my car as a DD just from school to home and work usually, so im never on the interstate or highways
i have the ECUTUNE stage 1 chip so i can use regular gasoline (i use 87 octane), but im getting anywhere from 12-15 mpg

really, what improves gas mileage?
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