Trip MPG

[Johnny O]

As best I can tell at this early date, the Gibson exhaust added 1 mpg on the highway and none around town.

Took a 700 mile round-trip last Friday from Pittsburgh to Syracuse, NY to pick up my kids for the weekend. I got off to a bit of a late start so I was running a steady 80 mph all the way up (I have a Valentine ONE) and averaged 16.8. I let junior drive most of the way home and he kept it at 70, once we got home it was at 17.3.

I reset it once when I went between my offices which is a steady highway trip. I kept it at the 65 limit, which was painful :lol:, but I got 19.1.

 

[JerryW Gilliland]

Not much of a difference, but still pretty good mileage.

At least it reinforces that our mileage is 2mpg better if we do the speed limit.

I've done the speed limit a couple of times myself. :lol:

 

[Johnny O]

Yeah, a Trac is as aerodynamic as a brick but I was surprised at how much mpg I lost by going faster.

 

[Woppy V]

i still remember the one time a got 400 miles on a tank.... man i wish that was always the case...

 

[gary s]

johnny,

with a magnaflow cat-back i still only get about 13.5-14.0 mostly highway on my 07 V-8. on 2 trips to the sunshine state, the best i got was about 17.5.

as well as the lack of aero, the weight does not help.

 

[Richard Kolb]

Hmm, with oversized, studded snow tires and 250 lbs of sand in the back of my truck I've averaged 17.3 mpg with mixed driving this winter. I hope to get the sand and tires off this weekend and then we'll see what happens.