Fuel Mileage

3" and no muffler, that is cool, I was thinking 3" AND a good flowing muffler. It depends on getting the y pipe to the 3 inch without adding a restriction. The sound wouldnt change much.

Cops listen for duals and I would get very bad fuel mileage, as Jeremy on BBCA TopGear says "THE NOISE, LISTEN TO THE NOISE!!!"

Oh, yeah, I just thought about a little incident...I used to drive a Kenworth 900 with a hot Cat and straight pipes, to say the jakes were loud, well. I was in Atlanta stuck on the 285 bumper to bumper, this guy in a convertable, top down, with a fart can was annoying me, he would run it up and let off to make noise as traffic would allow. I saw this overpass ahead, I flipped on the jakes (which don't come on till you let off the throttle) and wound it up. Just as I got beside him and under the bridge I let off, he dropped his phone and about jumped out of his car! It was great! Of course he almost hit the guy in front of him too and that would have been bad...

I just got cleared to go back to work. :banana: So all the ideas that cost money are flowing through my head again because they are going to be possible.

 

Its not that loud actually:banghead3:
I have too many 90 degree turns to make it really loud. I built the floor to fit a beefy exhaust on the drivers side, but i want the sound coming out on my right. Both for cruising, and passing cars on the highway at full throttle, mashing the drivers door when i pass

Will need to take care of that until next season, just pulling it straight out under the bumper.

 

20mpg at 78mph is nothing to sneeze at, and yes, I believe the hype about ethanol. The last tank of fuel I put in the Torino was from an ethanol-free station, said so on each pump and on a sign out front and was reinforced by the gritty old man behind the counter. The car definitely feels better with it and the mileage went from 13.9 to 15.5 for the same mostly city driving on 7 cylinders (I have a stuck valve).

This next tank should do the same and then I can get that valve cover off and find out why the one valve won't open.

 

MARCF Aaaah, the memories. I drove a CAT for CAT way back when I worked for a livin. Highway truck that is. My favorite tractor was the Kenmore, but had a nice Peterbuilt for awhile.
I'd have never done what you did!!

 

I seem to have hijacked my own thread, can you do that?

But then again exhaust is related to fuel mileage. No 20 mpg at highway speeds is not to bad. I just wondered if anybody got more.

I checked out the threads under the "fuel mileage" section where this one is supposed to go and I am pretty happy. I might do better if I bought the Volvo I was lookin at on CL.

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/2763058047.html

Of course the purchase price covers a LOT of fuel. And right now I'm broke .

 

5 cylinder Volvo wagon? Why, it won't do much better on gas than say, the '92 version of your OCC? If you want a wagon with great mileage, keep your foot out of it in the OCC. 55mph is what those cars were designed for as the national speed limit was 55 for a long time. If you're clearing 20mpg at near 80mph, I would imagine 24-26mpg is EASILY attainable if you go 55.

If you can't help the lead foot, go back to stock sounding exhaust. Or do like a friend of mine did in his Chevy Beretta. Find the throttle linkage and change out the weak stock return spring for a REALLY serious spring. I could barely press the pedal down in that car after he put that in. Kept him from getting speeding tickets every month after that!!!

 

Cool link, thanks. I haddnt check the fuel mileage yet, I just liked the looks of the Volvo.

I can keep my foot out of it most of the time and do. Coming back I had to hustle for other reasons, but I let it drift up on the speed. It seemed quite happy @ 70 or so.

55 mph might be the difference I have been seeing. I'm not a hypermiler per say, but I am trying to get good mileage.

 

I'm not a hypermiler per say, but I am trying to get good mileage.[/QUOTE] "That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard."

 

Cat, did I mention I am clueless ALOT?

Good one!

 

:banana:Me too. But that's an advantage if we ever go to court or get called for something we wrote on here!

 

"That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard."[/QUOTE]

 

[/QUOTE]I copied those quotes from other members!Personally I've heard stupider things....Some I've said myself!

 

Ok guys, I know I stuck my foot in my ear, but compared to my "daily driver" (5.97 mpg today) 20 is pretty good, not hypermileage, but pretty good. My last car was a 40+ mpg and that doesnt help.

At least I am adding to the public stock of good humor.


* my "daily driver" is a 2010 Cascadia Frieghtliner with a 14 liter engine grossing almost 80,000 lbs.


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Glad you are back to work and doing well. Don't know how it happened, I went from wanting to become a cartoonist to working in an office five years. Then becoming a trucker. As you know, it takes a lot of artistry to do that!
Some people will doubt it and say it ain't true. We had a 1987 Ford Escort that consistantly got 50MPG!-------On one dealer tuneup and oil change they discovered it had an experimental carb on it. Wanted to replace it with new factory stock. I never went back to the dealer again. PS I was getting 7 to 9 MPG with a Cat 3406 which was the new engine when I retarded from Cat. On experimental low sulfer fuel.