HF Here was my 1st one in my Fit. Post yours or email it to me tks
pcs0snq@comcast.net

 

Cold weather and horrible head winds resulted in so so FE

463Miles
9.18 gal US verified

50.4mpg

 

Shawn, I see you retired your car on the clean deal. What's up with that?

 

I have been lazy and I haven't really been trying to get great mpg.

 

Hello,
I realized that I am getting way worse gas mileage than you guys are. My car is slightly modded with intake, headers, exhaust, and slightly wider 15" wheels with 205/50 tires and lowered. I get average 30 mpg and maybe 33mpg hypermiling. are all you guys running stock cars?

 

Well, as far as mods I have:

- short ram intake
- skunk2 short shifter
- FAS switch(thanks to Paul)
- full grill block
- tires at 80psig
- and a whole bag of tricks

speaking of which since gas seems to be going back up I attempted a semi-hard core hypermile to work today and achieved 62.1mpg That is not even a full gallon to get to work(60mile commute).

good thing I can still do it!

When o when will we be able to buy all electrics that can achieve 200miles on a charge!!!???

 

I ran highway on i-95 doing 60 without cruise control. Cars flying by me and giving me dirty looks.

37mpg. You guys getting 50+ must be joking.

 

We are most certainly not. There is a lot more to getting good fuel economy than driving slowly.


I recently did a long trip from PA to upstate new york and back, mostly cruise-on at about 60 and averaged in the low 40s. I haven't averaged below 40 in a very long time, and that's with very little effort.



It sounds like you may be driving on flat tires.

 

@trancedsailor That's about what I get with no drafting and steady speed. It's not hard to get 50 but I think you'd have to use a lot of drafting and/or hypermiling tricks. A lot depends on how open the road is and how windy it is. I make a 20 minute drive every week that consistently varies by 6-8mpg each way (depending on inclines/declines and depending on wind condition). That's without me changing my driving style at all.

 

Just out of curiosity . . . you guys indicating 50+ MPG . . . are you using the dash indicator or figuring actual fuel usage vs. actual miles driven?

I've been tracking indicated average fuel mileage at time of fill-up vs actual mileage calculation with miles driven divided by fuel used and constantly find a 3-6 MPG variation, with the indicated average being falsely high.

Cheers!

jT

 

jT No I have and older one and use a Scan Gauge, but always go by the calculated with Gal's pumped and miles driven.. So does P B and H and RichXKU

speaking of which..

316 miles
6.261 gal
50.5mpg

This was on some Ethanol laced 87 Octane

 

I did a little test yesterday to help some that don't try know what my can can do when driven like I could give a rats ass about FE.

70MPH Cruse + AC 95% freeway

167 miles
5.187gal
32.2MPG

Without questing the worst FE by a ton in my cars life

 

My worst was exactly what the EPA got, 28. My best was 38.

 

Hi pcs0snq,

A mechanic friend of mine let me borrow his scan gauge for a week; pretty cool. I don't fully hypermile, so the best I've gotten is around 41 - but that was with three in the car and A/C on! I just had to ask.

Cheers!

jT

 

41's cool have fun!

 

Finaly got in a decent tank again:

509.3 miles
9.8 gallons
51.9mpg


I forgot to put my grill block in this morning with temperatures at 25-30F. I used cruise control doing the speed limit with using heat and achieved 42.6mpg.

 

Well, another non glorious tank and I have done so well I have been demoted from "elite" to "expert".

a whole 47.4mpg for this last tank.

 

I had a 63.5 mile segment yesterday 25 miles into work thanks to a slight tail wind. 59 coming home in a brisk 1/4ing headwind

Everone passes me!

 

11mph almost tail wind today, on the way home. 25mile segment was sweet!

 

320mile to get to 1/2 tank yesterday
That was with 1st click auto fill shut off.