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Originally posted by platinum_drew:
sorry guys, unless you're running "GAS STATION" brand gas, 15 mpg in any tour is super-crap
Heh, I use Costco gas...
But I have yet to try the fix. But I'll do it and keep this as a heads-up.
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right now, costco gas = BP gas
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My Brother's Mach I used to run horrible on Sunoco gas.
I mean. Every location he went to. Just a suggestion. **edit**
Holy hell, just realized I replied to a search post. Big  for me!
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no no, its cool, i am resurrecting this thread now anyways... Okay so it came up again that my gas mileage sucks. Someone reccomended a tune up. What is involved in this? To give an idea as to what has been done to try and fix the problem, here is what i have done: The car only had 31k miles when i got it in May, so these are all pretty recent. It has 36k now. Fram high-flow filter. New fuel filter Chemical intake cleaning (Berrymans) Injector cleaner And because I wanted to keep track of this for a while, here is data from a spreadsheet i have with my gas mileage. http://www.people.iup.edu/bvrl/Fuel%20Economy.htm and the only reason i got 25Mpg on the last tank was because the only driving i've been doing is highway driving
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It looks not good, but defintely not terrible. Remember, its cold out, you'll burn extra fuel w/ cold temperatures, especially w/ short trips. I get about 27-28mpg on the highway if I run 91 or better octane. Thats w/ 135k an no recent tuneups. If I run 87( Tried it once, figured for highway it couldn't hurt.) I actually got crappier mileage, like 25 to the gallon. Which brings up a question, what grade of gas are you running? Also, what is you're warmup cycle like, start and go, or start and idle for 5 minutes, etc? So many things factor into gas mileage. When I'm at home for a weekend, I do a lot more short trips, and I tend to drive harder because I'm on firmilar roads where I can let it out. I get down to 20mpg in those situations.
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I always have run 93 Octane gas. Almost every tank is a mix of short and long trips. I go home about every other weekend so usually every tank has at least one of those trips on it. Usually i just start up and go, unless i need to clean snow off the car... then it idles for a while before i drive. On a tank with all local mileage its usually between 17 and 19
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I got a 98 SVTC with 145,000 miles on it. I did a tune up and cleaned the UIM/LIM at 122,000 miles. I get in town about 15 to 18 depending on how hard i drive it and stright highway i get max 25 mpg. I average city/highway about 22-23 mpg.
I was looking at my fuel trims, and they are all out of wack, Short Term is like +25% on both banks, and Long Term is +15%. When i get the car out of storage this spring i am going to start by replacing the O2 sensors and maybe going with a SCT tuner. But i am going to do the SCT after i see what my trims look like after the O2's are replaced.
I always use Shell V-power +93 oct or BP +93 oct.
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Seeing as the SVT is designed to run on 91 Octane, why don't you start with switching to that and see what happens.
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Originally posted by KyleH:
Seeing as the SVT is designed to run on 91 Octane, why don't you start with switching to that and see what happens.
........... the SVT requires a minimum of 91. higher wont affect it. bescides, they dont sell 91 around here except for a small number of gas stations. the majority have 87, 89 and 93 (sunoco also has 94).
Noone answered my question of what is involved in a "tune-up"?
SVT Manual:
Edit: ignore the underlining in that pic. that was used to emphasize that fact in another post. what i really am showing was that it reccomends a minimum of 91.
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A tune-up is generally new spark plugs (sometimes even new wires), UIM/LIM cleaning, TB cleaning, EGR cleaning, new air filter, new fuel filter.
"Always do the cheap and easy ones first."
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