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Originally posted by CrzyViper:
What about driving with the secondaries open compared to not, how does that effect mileage?
Worse I would suspect.
Foot to the floor and beating the crap out of the car ALL the time and I always got over 500km to a tank. My UIM/LIM needed cleaning (obviously,with over 250 000km on the engine) and never did it.
Honestly,between my Zetec and Duratec MTXs,I notice almost no difference in fuel economy. Only my Zetec ATX was a pig and it was completely stock with 50k KM on a new motor. 350-450km to a tank on a good day.
'95 CGL ZMTX - DOB: 8/94 - Daily Driver - 271k & counting - Ractive muffler,MSD ignition coil,KEM 8mm wires,Pre98 SE 7 spoke rims,KVR CF brake pads,Post98 sail panels,Sony Xplod HU,Pioneer 3-way 6x9's
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What I also find helps is an intake and exhaust mod. Those things would really allow you to get more out of the gas you put in. Try also using Shell Gas in your cars vs. Esso or even Petro simply because of the quality I feel.
1998 Mercury Mystique LS
- Looking for SVT EXHAUST, SVT Rear bumper (silver frost) and ANY rocker mouldings (side skirts)
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I have an MSD ignition coil,8mm wires,god knows how old spark plugs,stock intake,removed resonator and a 'performance' muffler (read: fart can) and I got 625km out of my Zetec last week,with the needle just under the quarter mark.
My Duratec had a cone filter,9mm wires,removed resonator and a 2.5" SVT-style exhaust with no mufflers. I was also cheap and would usually fill up around a half tank,but if I ran it down I got well over 500.
'95 CGL ZMTX - DOB: 8/94 - Daily Driver - 271k & counting - Ractive muffler,MSD ignition coil,KEM 8mm wires,Pre98 SE 7 spoke rims,KVR CF brake pads,Post98 sail panels,Sony Xplod HU,Pioneer 3-way 6x9's
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i havent done a thing with my engine at 191,000 km aside from plugs and wires at 100,000
i still get 450 hwy and i drive the hell out of it
to be honest the 2.50-5$ injector cleaner you use wont yeild back the 2-5 litres of fuel you could have bought
oil changes ever 6-8k (100% hwy driving oil is still clean after 8k and i dont need to top it up)
Last edited by Putz; 07/05/06 01:50 PM.
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I got my Mystique at 160KM, it's at 250KM right now after about 2 to 2.5 years of driving it. Now what I'm debating, is the cost of removing resonator, adding SVT exhaust system (that cool looking dual exhaust), are worth it I mean that's $400 or $500 dollars right there with labour and that may be a waste, but you know I've just only NOW started to mod my car. We'll see.
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