Awwwww - bad gas mileage with the Lunchbox :(

[funboy6942]

Yeas the weight and passengers would make a diff but you forgot 2 things. One would be wind. If it is pushing aginst you in anyway will cause drag. And second your car has the aerodynamics of a brick so at highway speeds your own car is dragging itself down which is y you get better city MPG I am guessing.

 

[Viperoni]

Whoa that's slow

My old 91 Mercury topaz, 2.3L/3 speed auto, with over 120k on it pushed 115mph at a screaming 5700rpm... where it puts down an astounding 60hp and 55ftlb to the wheels.
I have the dyno to prove the power level (or lack thereof)

 

[GeekDrew]

My car is awesome. Yours isn't.

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~245 HP (IIRC)... I *think* the governor kicks in around 138, but I've never had it about 105, just because I haven't felt like it. My mileage is less than yours, tho. Looks *MUCH* better, and is a lot "faster" (thank you, supercharged 3800...) - that means my car is better.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
My car is awesome. Yours isn't.

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~245 HP (IIRC)... I *think* the governor kicks in around 138, but I've never had it about 105, just because I haven't felt like it. My mileage is less than yours, tho. Looks *MUCH* better, and is a lot "faster" (thank you, supercharged 3800...) - that means my car is better.

I :heart: my supercharged 3800 myself.

What do you drive?

 

[Rightwinger]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
:shocked: didnt even know chevy made 8.1L engins. thought 8L+ was Dodge territory.

Nope. GM made up to a 7.4 (454 chevy/GMC) and a few years ago they stroked it out and made it an 8.1 (502).

If you look up the engine specifics you can see that the cylinder bores are all the same and the CID increase comes from increasing the stroke.

 

[Crazymofo]

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: Crazymofo

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: ajayjuneja
for cars with small engines, they get their optimal fuel efficiency at 55mph or so. My g35 gets 22-25mpg highway @ 80mph.

That's why what you buy should be based on your driving habits to a degree

The poor gas mileage on the neon (22mpg) is typical -- I rented a 2003 neon 2 yrs. ago and got 19mpg with it @ 80 mph!

04 Civic - even at 80mph, I can pull low 40s on long trips.

- M4H

Must you rub salt in the wound?!?!

hey, it yuor fault you tried to push a giant rectangle with 138hp to 100mph and then complain yuo arent getting good gas mileage.

Actually - it has 108hp

?
i thought it shared the engine with the mr2 and celica gt which made 138 and 125 hp/tq respectively. im rather suprised such an unaerodynamic design go to such high speeds.

The MR2 and Celica dont even share the same engine.

yeah they do the Celica GT uses the 1zz-ge which is shared with the mr2(138hp/125tq at 6500rpm redline). the GT-s(higher level model which sports 130some tq and 180hp at 9krpm redline uses the 2zz-fe engine which is why so many MR-2s swap to the 2zz-fe. same mounts, just higher compression since it's using a different head and piston and VVT-i.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:fN...1641+1zz-ge+mr2&hl=en&client=firefox-a
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:7F...l+1zz-ge+celica&hl=en&client=firefox-a

My bad. I didn't know that the GT and GT-S use different engines.

 

[Ryan]

Haha - Figured out why the gas mileage sucked so bad - tire pressure. My initial trip was for an emergency - so I didn't bother checking anything on my vehicle. my rear tires were at 13PSI, and the fronts were hovering around 25psi. Pumped them all up to 44 - the max psi for them, and achieved around 31MPG, traveling @ 80mph today On the last leg - where I did 65 for about 150 miles, I got 34mpg

 

[ajayjuneja]

woot! Tires at 13psi will do that to you for sure!

My G35 does have the full aerodynamic body kit I think it looks hot too

 

[tm37]

I get 35 MPG in my 96 neon on the road (I average about 75 MP on the freeway)

 

[Colt45]

must be some pretty short gearing, better than 5 grand and 110.

44PSI on the tires? dont go by what the tire says, go by what the fuelcover/doorjamb says. overinflating your tires is just going to fvck them up.

anyways, i drive an older big 4dr sedan, and it gets 30ish US MPG at 70...80 MPH

 

[Toastedlightly]

Come on rbloedoh, if I can get an old '98 Grand Prix w/ 180k miles up to 108 and peg the limiter, you should be able to get above that! (it has a 3.1L)