Fuel Mileage

[CrystalPistol]

I know, you just ride to ride. I learned a long time ago though to maintain a steady throttle, even in pursuits.

When I was a kid, my Dad had a "Mile Mizer" thing in his '54 Chevrolet that was really just a vacuum gauge with the scale marked in colored "zone" … the higher the vacuum, the better the mileage.

As I grew up and started driving myself, I soon had a '69 Dodge Dart 340 with 4 speed and 3.91 rear gears, it had a 780 Holley and a Isky cam too, it would fly. I usually did not even check mileage, but just for kicks I put that old vacuum gauge in it that I found in Dad's tool boxes after he passed, and I sometimes played with it and by golly, I could get 16-18 mpg if I tried hard, easy on the gas, always high test. Our '68 Satelite Sport Wagon with 383 4bbl and 3.23 gearing did about the same I found out in '72 when Mom, Sis, & I went to visit SW Texas for vacation, but like the Swinger, "The Wagon" as we called it had dual exhaust with those short stubby mufflers, it sounded so good, was hard to go easy on the pedal, but I forced myself.

Once I was assigned to a special assignment 250 miles away with another trooper . He wanted to drive but he hit a deer a couple days before we left, so we took my car, but he drove it at first. He was "patting" the gas in a slow rhythm, it was so aggrevating, so I asked him about his police car, he said it was a gas hog, I told him mine would be too if I drove it the way he was driving it, he was peeved I think. It was a '86 Chevrolet Caprice with 350 4bbl & 4R700 transmission, 3.42 rear. He said he was a good driver, I told him he was wearing out the accelerator pump. He did not even realize he was pumping it, so used to the habit I guess. Yeah, he let me drive then.

You know what, I don't know why I wrote this ….

[rhino 2]

I know, you just ride to ride. I learned a long time ago though to maintain a steady throttle, even in pursuits.

When I was a kid, my Dad had a "Mile Mizer" thing in his '54 Chevrolet that was really just a vacuum gauge with the scale marked in colored "zone" … the higher the vacuum, the better the mileage.

As I grew up and started driving myself, I soon had a '69 Dodge Dart 340 with 4 speed and 3.91 rear gears, it had a 780 Holley and a Isky cam too, it would fly. I usually did not even check mileage, but just for kicks I put that old vacuum gauge in it that I found in Dad's tool boxes after he passed, and I sometimes played with it and by golly, I could get 16-18 mpg if I tried hard, easy on the gas, always high test. Our '68 Satelite Sport Wagon with 383 4bbl and 3.23 gearing did about the same I found out in '72 when Mom, Sis, & I went to visit SW Texas for vacation, but like the Swinger, "The Wagon" as we called it had dual exhaust with those short stubby mufflers, it sounded so good, was hard to go easy on the pedal, but I forced myself.

Once I was assigned to a special assignment 250 miles away with another trooper . He wanted to drive but he hit a deer a couple days before we left, so we took my car, but he drove it at first. He was "patting" the gas in a slow rhythm, it was so aggrevating, so I asked him about his police car, he said it was a gas hog, I told him mine would be too if I drove it the way he was driving it, he was peeved I think. It was a '86 Chevrolet Caprice with 350 4bbl & 4R700 transmission, 3.42 rear. He said he was a good driver, I told him he was wearing out the accelerator pump. He did not even realize he was pumping it, so used to the habit I guess. Yeah, he let me drive then.

You know what, I don't know why I wrote this ….

The worst gas milage car i had was a 77 Merc wangon with a 400 Ci engine 11 miles a gallon highway....Half that in town...My 68 Charger with the 440 Ci' Carter AFB Hooker headers and SS Cam and lifters 456 rears was almost as bad....But fun to drive/race..Un-like the Merc which was a dog...

I wrote this cause i'm bored feeding my generator during this prolong power outage...

Don't know what its MPG are....But it can't be much it eats gas, But it hasn't moved an inch since Tuesday........

[CrystalPistol]

The worst gas milage car i had was a 77 Merc wangon with a 400 Ci engine 11 miles a gallon highway....Half that in town...My 68 Charger with the 440 Ci' Carter AFB Hooker headers and SS Cam and lifters 456 rears was almost as bad....But fun to drive/race..Un-like the Merc which was a dog...

I wrote this cause i'm bored feeding my generator during this prolong power outage...

Don't know what its MPG are....But it can't be much it eats gas, But it hasn't moved an inch since Tuesday........

I'd have tried that Charger out, I had no slicks but I did do a best 13.01 on some soft & sticky recaps. My old '77 F-150 with 351M gets a solid 11 mpg too as long as you keep it under 65, loaded or empty … or so it seems, while my '07 with the 5.4 3 valve will do 20 after I "tuned" it. My 9,600 running/13,500 surge watt gen does about 13 hours on 7 gallons. In 2012 we had a derecho knock power out for a week, gas was like $4 a gallon, it hurt, so I ran it just half the time. Was glad I had it though.

Our '01 Mercury Grand Marquis loaded with us 3 & luggage, Cross country, tracing Rt 66 westerly and Rt 50 easterly May 2006, gone 21 days 7,945 miles, used 311.665 gallons of 87 octane gasoline, averaged 25.5mpg for whole trip averaging 378.3 miles per day. We did some back tracking & detours and caught a bunch of National Parks. Changed oil in Newton, Ks. Used AC a lot, saw snow in the Rockies, saw 113 degrees in Needles, and we took just over 8,000 digital photos, plus several rolls 35mm too. I probably ate half a dozen Navajo Tacos alone, each was "different". Car idled with AC on for a couple hours (hood popped to let heat escape) as I toured a "Planes of Fame" museum in Az and wife took a nap. Got 92,xxx miles on it now, good driving car. Not quick but sure gobbles miles, and handles well with Addco bars & Bilstein HD shocks and other tweaks. Bought it new after seeing how tough those Ford CVPIs were at work.<!--EndFragment-->

[rhino 2]

We had a Lynn halftrack at our camp back in the 60's...I can't remember what year it was maybe a 1915?...We used it to haul shale it would burn 2 gallons a mile with a load on...

But nothing could stop it...

[hogcowboy]

I had a Cadillac Sedan de Ville that was nearly that bad. I work hard to improve the fuel mileage and no matter how I drove it, hard or like it might fall apart, it got 13.8 miles per gallon. Period the end. Air conditioner on or not, made no difference. Jack rabbit starts from lights or just barely get it moving, nothing change that 13.8 mpg. It got frustrating. Something should have change it but nothing did. Oh I could make it worse but nothing got it better. Put a brand new Rochester on it. 13.8mpg. Put a Holley on it. Best it would do is 13.8mpg. But it would cruise at 110mph all day long. Had a DPS car follow me doing just that 110mph on highway 180 into El Paso. Picked him up somewhere around the Guadalupe Mountains. I saw this car hauling ass coming up behind me. Once he got about 10 cars back he just sat there. Stayed there for at least 100 miles. Just before we got to El Paso he pulled up along side of me and said over the PA system to bring in down in New Mexico. Gave him a big thumbs up as I started the climb before dropping down into El Paso. I wouldn't dare do it today. This was back in 1970. And it was around 3:00am. I was head to Arizona so my wife could visit her mom and then on the way to California.

[paws]

DANG Larry!!!

It’s a wonder you didn’t pick up some mule deer backstrap on that stretch of highway!!

You were LUC-KEEE...!!

[hogcowboy]

Saw a few eyes but that was all.

[chester]

I know, you just ride to ride. I learned a long time ago though to maintain a steady throttle, even in pursuits.

When I was a kid, my Dad had a "Mile Mizer" thing in his '54 Chevrolet that was really just a vacuum gauge with the scale marked in colored "zone" … the higher the vacuum, the better the mileage.

As I grew up and started driving myself, I soon had a '69 Dodge Dart 340 with 4 speed and 3.91 rear gears, it had a 780 Holley and a Isky cam too, it would fly. I usually did not even check mileage, but just for kicks I put that old vacuum gauge in it that I found in Dad's tool boxes after he passed, and I sometimes played with it and by golly, I could get 16-18 mpg if I tried hard, easy on the gas, always high test. Our '68 Satelite Sport Wagon with 383 4bbl and 3.23 gearing did about the same I found out in '72 when Mom, Sis, & I went to visit SW Texas for vacation, but like the Swinger, "The Wagon" as we called it had dual exhaust with those short stubby mufflers, it sounded so good, was hard to go easy on the pedal, but I forced myself.

Once I was assigned to a special assignment 250 miles away with another trooper . He wanted to drive but he hit a deer a couple days before we left, so we took my car, but he drove it at first. He was "patting" the gas in a slow rhythm, it was so aggrevating, so I asked him about his police car, he said it was a gas hog, I told him mine would be too if I drove it the way he was driving it, he was peeved I think. It was a '86 Chevrolet Caprice with 350 4bbl & 4R700 transmission, 3.42 rear. He said he was a good driver, I told him he was wearing out the accelerator pump. He did not even realize he was pumping it, so used to the habit I guess. Yeah, he let me drive then.

You know what, I don't know why I wrote this ….

I don"t either!

[CrystalPistol]

I don"t either!

Bored I guess.

[rhino 2]

You know what, I don't know why I wrote this ….

Same here a lot of times....[Understatement].........I prefer 'Not' to think before posting....Because I like to be just as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mind....And it also serves to break up the monotony of the trials and tribulations of the last 4 months that we are all dealing with........