Your gas mileage?

Driving gross polluters seems to put a smile on my face.

hahhaha, isn't that the truth!

Kind of sad really, but it's kind of like eating chocolate cake for dinner (hey, I'm an adult!). Not really good for you, but wowsers it's good!

Chris,

My Pantera has a 100% stock motor & gets 10 to 11 around town & 15 on the highway. I think I can improve that some with tuning. we'll see next summer, the motor is coming out this winter.

your friend on the DTBB, George

During my last run of the season (we have snow now...) I met DEEB for brunch about 85 miles away. During my round-trip I drove anywhere from 50 to 100 MPH (hey, they were twisty back-country roads) and when I filled up at the end, I got 18 MPG. OK, one thing is they were Canadian gallons, which are a bit larger than a US gallon, but still, I was shocked. I've never bothered to calculate my fuel economy in the Pantera before, but since I get about 16 MPG in my RX-8, I'm thinking I need to do the world a favor and drive my Pantera more...

My engine is internally stock and as everyone knows... white paint is lighter.

When my car was stock except for a holey 600 I would get upwards of 21 MPG. Sadly, the 520 only gets about 16.
Forest

Make that Holley. If I had known they were going to invent computers I would have learned to type when I was in high school.
Forest

Wow, 21! heheheh, coooool.

Though my car has been pinging lately (under high load, low rpm's, not quite full throttle, still using the 2 bbl)leading me to believe that not everything is working perfectly right now. Perhaps it's the California winter fuel? Or perhaps I need to adjust the carb again.

I have a brand new motor and even on break in oil I have been averaging 15 MPG. I have the high milage modification though so you can't go by me. This winter I will install the high horsepower mod and I expect my milage to drop a lot. Once a motor is broken in it gets better milage though. Right up until it starts to wear out.

Seems like 12 mpg..no matter how I drive

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Originally posted by Mark Mensen:
Driving gross polluters seems to put a smile on my face.

I saw a few things on car polution. Seems cow emmisions can polute a lot worse than several cars. In some areas where industial polution was high, some of the modern cars were actually "cleaning" the air!

Gary

Hahahhaa, nice sticker!

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Originally posted by lastpushbutton:
Seems like 12 mpg..no matter how I drive