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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 08:50 AM
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gas is just getting ridiculous

i dont know about you all but gas in my area is around $3.90/gal. anyone have ant tips to increase my mpg or any mods i can do to help with it? right now its about 200 miles per tank. dic is way off lol. one thing that i know i need to do is keep my foot off of the gas pedal lol.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 08:54 AM
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**** I"m at $4.15 a gallon by me, I detuned the car, run 89 octane, lowered my cruising speed by 5mph and accelerate a bit more lightly. brought my avg mpg from 28.3 to 30.8 so far (only 2 weeks avg started since january). I also commute 150 miles a day and sit in manhattan traffic.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by thefinalgamer
i dont know about you all but gas in my area is around $3.90/gal. anyone have ant tips to increase my mpg or any mods i can do to help with it? right now its about 200 miles per tank. dic is way off lol. one thing that i know i need to do is keep my foot off of the gas pedal lol.
yeah do something to your car to make it go in limp mode. i got almost 32mpg while my car was in limp mode
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 08:57 AM
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**** I"m at $4.15 a gallon by me, I detuned the car, run 89 octane, lowered my cruising speed by 5mph and accelerate a bit more lightly. brought my avg mpg from 28.3 to 30.8 so far (only 2 weeks avg started since january). I also commute 150 miles a day and sit in manhattan traffic.
i do about 200 miles a day for class. spent over $80 for 3 days this week. good thing is i only have class 3 days a week.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 08:57 AM
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i filled up last night.. $1.447 Litre in Ottawa, Canada last night. Ultra 94.
conersion . 1.447 x 3.79 = $5.48/gal
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 08:58 AM
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damn! and i thought it was bad here. its 3.50 by me. thats why i love my ls xfe 30 mpg even when i punch it lol. i usually get 300 miles to the tank.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:00 AM
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i filled up last night.. $1.447 Litre in Ottawa, Canada last night. Ultra 94.
conersion . 1.447 x 3.79 = $5.48/gal
all i can say to that is **** that ****.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by r3v07ut10n
i filled up last night.. $1.447 Litre in Ottawa, Canada last night. Ultra 94.
conersion . 1.447 x 3.79 = $5.48/gal
wow, how bad did your ass hurt after that?
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:07 AM
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trade it in, get a prius.... no really,do it... the more i drive, the more i think about doin it... an then eventually boostin it
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:16 AM
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im prolly gonna just get a bike, a hell of a lot more fun and better mpg.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:16 AM
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It isn't so bad, i avg about 8.1 L/100km.. somewhere around 28-29 mpg. My car is great on gas, and when i get on it all the time, the highest i have seen is 10.5/L (22mpg). Thank god its just my summer car though.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:22 AM
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A lot of heavy driving around the net. I average 45+ mpg on the hwy at 60 mph. $3.65 per gallon.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:35 AM
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E85 3.19 a gallon here, premium is 3.89
I run E85 and get about 26mpg on my 09 ss
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:36 AM
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old saying goes.. you have to pay to play.

@madbard... its very hard to hold off the gas when you make alot of power. Boost is like a drug. .its addictive.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by RecklessL61
E85 3.19 a gallon here, premium is 3.89
I run E85 and get about 26mpg on my 09 ss
I h8 j00. I'm relegated to city only driving. 16mpg. Ever so slowly it's creeping up. When I first started driving to work it was 12mpg. I only had one highway tank of gas, that was with 3 passengers and driving it like a raped ape and I got just under 20mpg.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by r3v07ut10n
i filled up last night.. $1.447 Litre in Ottawa, Canada last night. Ultra 94.
conersion . 1.447 x 3.79 = $5.48/gal
This^

Be thankful you are below $4/gallon

I put in 20 bucks and got like 12 litres out of it..
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 10:00 AM
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my wallet hurt yestarday when i notice gas was 4.79 and i was on a empty tank. i was like god damm!
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 10:02 AM
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I average between 28.8 and 30.5 mpg on a very regular basis in a Trifecta tuned SS/TC. Gas was $3.93/gal yesterday morning when I filled up (93 octane).

I drive 75-100 miles/day. This is about 10% "city", 90% highway, usually travelling at speeds between 60 on the low end and 75-80 on the high end. As you can tell, these are not "fun" miles based on my average MPG. I'm regularly seeing 350+ miles out of one tank. I have noticed that my car will do a consistent high 28mpg with the cruise set between 75-78mph, which I'm OK with.

I do, however, make sure I do one full boost pull per day, just to ease the pain, just a little bit!
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by thefinalgamer
i dont know about you all but gas in my area is around $3.90/gal. anyone have ant tips to increase my mpg or any mods i can do to help with it? right now its about 200 miles per tank. dic is way off lol. one thing that i know i need to do is keep my foot off of the gas pedal lol.
Have you reset your gas mileage thru the dic? If not its an average of all the miles driven.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 10:09 AM
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get a tune for better mileage, drive better, hypermill.
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by bubba_jay
Have you reset your gas mileage thru the dic? If not its an average of all the miles driven.
i reset it weekly to see if my mileage is improving or not. my DIC is way off to what im actually getting. says i can travel around 390 on a tank and im getting more around 200
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 11:13 AM
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looking at these prices makes me scared. seems its higher everywhere but here lol. 3.50 is for cheapy gas though. to get teir 1 gas from like shell or anything is 3fucking80 for regular
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 04:00 PM
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08 SS/TC with GMS1, progressive springs, stock everything else I average 29.5mpg running 92-93 octane. I drive a 60 mile daily commute round-trip, about 25 miles worth is 55+ bypass. I use cruise a lot, 5th gear with foot off the gas, 3k shift points as well.

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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 04:08 PM
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Just paid 3.99 for 93 octane... Definitely need to get the exhaust leak taken care of. Between being an auto and having an exhaust leak my gas mileage is 23.1mpg avg. OUCH! And thats with a decent amount of highway and a slightly aggressive driving style. But even babying it I wont go over 24.5 right now....
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Old Apr 8, 2011 | 04:14 PM
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why are you guys "freaking" out? we have the cheapest gas prices in the world.
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