Fuel Milage

[tweiss3]

I always start my car, let it run for 15 minutes till its warm before beginning my trip. Also, its always about a 30 minute drive, close to 25 miles each way. If that helps determine my driving habit.

[RETed]

I assume you're talking about your location "Akron, Ohio"?
I assume that you're running that OXYGENATED gas crap?
If so, that explains it.
Oxygenated gas will kill, on average, 5% - 10% of your mileage.
The oxygenated additive displaces gasoline, so it takes more of this crap to power the engine.
Oxygenated gas is a @#%*(_%_ conspiracy.

Non-turbo FC's should easily do 15mpg.
Mix in some highway / freeway driving, and it should start to head towards 20mpg.
Start doing some serious freeway driving, and you can easily break 20mpg and start heading towards 25mpg.

At best mileage driving conditions, it'll get close to 30mpg...
To do this, do all your driving in top gear and at 3,500RPM - the key is the RPM's, cause you want to keep it right under the secondary fuel injector crossover point.


-Ted

[tweiss3]

Originally Posted by RETed

I assume you're talking about your location "Akron, Ohio"?
I assume that you're running that OXYGENATED gas crap?
If so, that explains it.
Oxygenated gas will kill, on average, 5% - 10% of your mileage.
The oxygenated additive displaces gasoline, so it takes more of this crap to power the engine.
Oxygenated gas is a @#%*(_%_ conspiracy.

Non-turbo FC's should easily do 15mpg.
Mix in some highway / freeway driving, and it should start to head towards 20mpg.
Start doing some serious freeway driving, and you can easily break 20mpg and start heading towards 25mpg.

At best mileage driving conditions, it'll get close to 30mpg...
To do this, do all your driving in top gear and at 3,500RPM - the key is the RPM's, cause you want to keep it right under the secondary fuel injector crossover point.


-Ted

Yes, we don't have real pure gas here, fucking tards.

Also this makes complete sense. 3500rpms in 5th gear is quite quick, too quick for being legal around here (fucking 65 max state limit). I may end up trying to see if I can break 20 this summer. Before the cold set in, I was getting 16 pretty easily, and defiantly not taking it easy.

So, my car "should" be in good operating order based on fuel usage. I just need to:
1) stay out of the city all together
2) run real gasoline (fuck this shitty winter mix)
3) stay in a warm area
4) drive faster, but stay in the primary injector range.

[Rotary Evolution]

Originally Posted by tweiss3

I always start my car, let it run for 15 minutes till its warm before beginning my trip. Also, its always about a 30 minute drive, close to 25 miles each way. If that helps determine my driving habit.

it tells me you like to waste gas. i start my car and boost it to 15psi within a few minutes at times, most of the time it's very rare that i let it warm up more than 30 seconds before driving off.

[Pete_89T2]

Originally Posted by tweiss3

I always start my car, let it run for 15 minutes till its warm before beginning my trip. Also, its always about a 30 minute drive, close to 25 miles each way. If that helps determine my driving habit.

That would explain the lower than average MPGs. In terms of your run time, for each of your average trips, your car is running for a total of 45 minutes or so, with 15 minutes or so spent idling. Idle = 0 MPG, and if ~33% of your run time is spent at idle, it's easy to see how this would effect your average MPG. Skip the warm up time idling - just drive off but don't beat on it until it's up to operating temp.