I got 18 MPG!
- Thread starter blazen71
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Marauder_Santa
Member
Not to one up anyone, but I recently returned from my annual 2300 mile round trip from ATL to NY. Averaged 25MPG. I'm a very conserative driver.
I have a non S/C car.
This includes a lot of cruise control, a full trunk with a loaded large cooler, and it was cool the week I was on the road. Not much stop and go traffic, but did drive around town on LI and upstate. This car has always been great on gas. I usually average 19 around town in ATL traffic.
My mods also help:
Stock gears
Ford shorty headers
X pipe
Flowmasters
Under drive pully's
I have a non S/C car.
This includes a lot of cruise control, a full trunk with a loaded large cooler, and it was cool the week I was on the road. Not much stop and go traffic, but did drive around town on LI and upstate. This car has always been great on gas. I usually average 19 around town in ATL traffic.
My mods also help:
Stock gears
Ford shorty headers
X pipe
Flowmasters
Under drive pully's
Fourth Horseman
FSTMERC
I average just a hair under 23 MPG if I keep it to 70 MPH. That's with 4.10 gears, 3500 stall converter, Vortech V3 S-trim air-air.
O's Fan Rich
Capital Area Marauder Member
Not bad at all!
In April, coming back from Lidio's I averaged just under 23mpg hwy.... 22.87 or something like that.
In April, coming back from Lidio's I averaged just under 23mpg hwy.... 22.87 or something like that.
CKMustangCobra
New member
My old 500hp Cobra with a Vortech averaged 24mpg. I get less than that in my stockish Marauder.
Maybe it needs a S/C.
Maybe it needs a S/C.
Fourth Horseman
FSTMERC
That's as good an excuse as any I ever came up with. I say go for it!
justbob
Sick-Speed play toy
What gear do you have Blazin? I ran 70MPH home from Tenn. and got 22.5! (stock gear) Wanna hear something better? The last time I did mileage tests she was only a year old with about 14,000 miles and the BEST I could ever do was 21.5!!!! I guess she's just a little "looser" these days.
blazen71
I'm Your Huckleberry
03calitejas
John
Just got back from a Chitown road trip and only managed to stay out of the throttle on one of the fillups...got 23.2 MPG runnin 74 MPH for the entire tank (65MPH speed limit in 'sconsin and Ill)...
I also checked the MPG on the one tank I burned up in Chicago which included a lot of happy idjut driving- 16MPG under those conditions...Only had one real challenge tho- I got nicked off the line driving on rte 59 heading towards the tollway by a sweet 65 GTO rag top in Bartlett but blew by him when my MM rapped out in 2nd...got off it at about 90 before the local police had a chance to nab me.... not sure if that counts as a kill but it sure was fun. We chatted at the next light and he said there's a SB in Streamwood that beat him in the same way...
:burnout:
I put 1700 miles on her and didn't spot another MM the whole way
I also checked the MPG on the one tank I burned up in Chicago which included a lot of happy idjut driving- 16MPG under those conditions...Only had one real challenge tho- I got nicked off the line driving on rte 59 heading towards the tollway by a sweet 65 GTO rag top in Bartlett but blew by him when my MM rapped out in 2nd...got off it at about 90 before the local police had a chance to nab me.... not sure if that counts as a kill but it sure was fun. We chatted at the next light and he said there's a SB in Streamwood that beat him in the same way...
:burnout:
I put 1700 miles on her and didn't spot another MM the whole way
Stranger in the Black Sedan
Won't you hop inside my car?
Maybe you have aftermarket gears and someone took the tune back off the car when they sold it (which would report the wrong speed to the computer and cause all kinds of mayhem)?
Motorhead350
New member
I get 18.5
