Best Corvette MPG??
Team Owner
Joined: Mar 2006
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From: San Diego
On the SCMR trip last Saturday I got 23mpg over a course of 280 miles but there was alot of high revving involved and mountain roads. 
Going to Oxnard and back for A&A Corvette's get-together in June, I pulled 421 miles on the tank for 25.47mpg. Again, I had a lead foot either playing with corvettes on the drive up, or beating down 2 porsches and a 350z on the ride home going a wheeeee bit too fast.
I got a lead foot what can I say. My 2.73 gears need a heavy foot to move that car out of the hole. I get 18-21 daily driving half city and half freeway but that lead foot is for me hearing my Borla Stingers. 
I really am not driving for gas mileage.
Going to Oxnard and back for A&A Corvette's get-together in June, I pulled 421 miles on the tank for 25.47mpg. Again, I had a lead foot either playing with corvettes on the drive up, or beating down 2 porsches and a 350z on the ride home going a wheeeee bit too fast.
I got a lead foot what can I say. My 2.73 gears need a heavy foot to move that car out of the hole. I get 18-21 daily driving half city and half freeway but that lead foot is for me hearing my Borla Stingers. I really am not driving for gas mileage.
Burning Brakes
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From: Frederick Md
Originally Posted by tstar
Are all these MPG numbers coming from your guy's DICs? My goodness that sounded naughty! Or are you actually calculating miles driven by how much gas you are replacing in your tanks? I, like most single women do not trust DICs too much... 
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Tim
99 Coupe
Or are you actually calculating miles driven by how much gas you are replacing in your tanks? I, like most single women do not trust DICs too much... (Sorry, couldn't resist)Tim
99 Coupe
To be honest I never have used the DIC to look at
gas milage ....and I mean never...
Bob
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2006
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From: DuBois PA
St. Jude Donor '11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Bob,
Have you ever compared your calculated mileage to what the DIC is showing? I'm curious to see how accurate it is.
Tim
99 Coupe
Have you ever compared your calculated mileage to what the DIC is showing? I'm curious to see how accurate it is.
Tim
99 Coupe
Originally Posted by 24695bob
No if you read my post you will notice that my milage was actual calculated on one full tank of gas and a 400 or so mile run down Rt 81...
To be honest I never have used the DIC to look at
gas milage ....and I mean never...
Bob
To be honest I never have used the DIC to look at
gas milage ....and I mean never...
Bob
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Melting Slicks
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From: NE OH
Originally Posted by Shifty
Are there any kind of Mods you guys are using for getting better gas milage? What tire pressure are you running?
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From: All that glitters is Gold - Hockey Is CANADA'S game
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06
Originally Posted by nyurdrms
I was on the highway for a couple hours the other day and got the average MPG up to 27.1 , can anyone beat that? I've got a 2000 Couple automatic.
I averaged 32 mpg on a 2500 miles trip acroos Canada and the USA with an average of 70 mph. I have a 2001 A4
Drifting
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: East Hampton CT
I've hit 28 mpg but my dad got 34 mpg AVERAGE for a 500 mi trip including city driving! I don't want to know how he was doing it...but I do know he didn't heat up my 02's enough with the longtubes and fouled them out. I had to give it a good rip to clean them out and clear the codes.
Race Director
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From: SoCal Twin Turbo, Any Questions?
St. Jude Donor '06-'07
i usually get my averate above 20 wsomewhere, but i do more city that highway driving, and i beat on it a bit
best was after we did some work with the batterty out went out for a spirited run and cruised back, and when we got back the average was at 8 mpg 
best was after we did some work with the batterty out went out for a spirited run and cruised back, and when we got back the average was at 8 mpg
Melting Slicks
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From: Lake Oswego, Near Portland Oregon
99 MPG, at least for an instant
One day the traffic was really flying along, and I was just tucked into the flow at about 80 or so. I had the DIC switched to Instantanious MPG and was watching the numbers upand down with road grade. We crested a rise and began to slow, so I lifted off throttle and began the downhill.....For a few seconds it hit 99 MPG.
I have repeated the same section of freeway regularly, but always at a more reasonabme speed, and never gotten the 99 again. I think the speed at around 80 had a lot to do with it.
I have the 3.15 A4 setup, Halltech Stinger filter and airbridge, ZO6 tailpipe/mufflers, LS1 Edit, dyno tuned up for HP at least as much as you can push the mix and timing on an internally stock engine, and with higher shifting RPM points programed into the A4. .... and we get in the neighborhood of mid to upper 20s on the hiway, sometimes even hit 30. mid teens around town stop and go traffic with an ocassional 'goose' thrown in. I have no complaints about MPG at all.
I have repeated the same section of freeway regularly, but always at a more reasonabme speed, and never gotten the 99 again. I think the speed at around 80 had a lot to do with it.
I have the 3.15 A4 setup, Halltech Stinger filter and airbridge, ZO6 tailpipe/mufflers, LS1 Edit, dyno tuned up for HP at least as much as you can push the mix and timing on an internally stock engine, and with higher shifting RPM points programed into the A4. .... and we get in the neighborhood of mid to upper 20s on the hiway, sometimes even hit 30. mid teens around town stop and go traffic with an ocassional 'goose' thrown in. I have no complaints about MPG at all.
Last edited by FiberglassFan; Aug 9, 2006 at 09:51 PM.
Drifting
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From: cincinnati ohio
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Originally Posted by BanditSRT
I just got back from a road trip and got 31.6 mpg on one tank. All the others were 30ish
I have 3 cars and the 2004 CE gets 31 + (the best of the 3) when I cruise about 70 mph. I rarely exceed that speed by much . . . been there and done that for too many years . . . going to be 69 next birthday. . . I get my need for speed from my 750CC Honda VFR sport bike. Got that beauty up to 142 mph out in Montana a few years back. That was a lot of fun. I like to cruise mostly. My 6 speed is great for going from a stop up to 70 and keeping an eye on the guy in the rear view mirror
Drifting
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From: Cocoa Florida
I get about 25 with a half and half mix and some spirited driving. Ive noticed the DIC is about 2-4 mpg higher give or take, due to idling and first motions and such.
2000 6 spd coupe (with air on most of the time)
2000 6 spd coupe (with air on most of the time)
Pro
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From: Keystone, I.T.
Originally Posted by tstar
Are all these MPG numbers coming from your guy's DICs? My goodness that sounded naughty! Or are you actually calculating miles driven by how much gas you are replacing in your tanks? I, like most single women do not trust DICs too much... (Sorry, couldn't resist)
Tim
99 Coupe
Or are you actually calculating miles driven by how much gas you are replacing in your tanks? I, like most single women do not trust DICs too much... (Sorry, couldn't resist)Tim
99 Coupe
On a recent trip from Tulsa to St Louis I got 28.2 pencil and paper mpg. The DIC gave me 30.2. I was running 70-75 mph, no stops. Fuled in Tulsa and again in Collinsville,IL. '02 vert, A4, 3.15 rear end. I usually get 24 around town, sometimes 22 in heavy traffic.
