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How far can you tour go on one tank of gas, the rules are as follows.
1. 1 tank topped off, no gas can for that extra 30 miles... ok a gas can will be needed to get you home after it runs out. BUT NO FUDGING!
2. I drove my car at between 60 and 80 (depending on the traffic. and one 3 mile, shall we say sprited sprint for 3 miles cause this a$$ was like 6" off my back bumper and I couldn't get over. so mainly between 60 & 80
3. you have to drive it until it starts to sputter. now I can drive for another 3 or 4 miles after it starts to sputter, just coaxing it along, but I didn't this time.
REMEBER take a gas can with a gallon or so to get you back to the station.
That's it! anyone wanna take my challenge?
I got 425.7 miles out of my 1 tank of gas. See what you can get.
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I got 440 on a tank coming back from Pittsburgh the other weekend. Cruise was set at 72 and when I filled up I still had more then a quarter tank, think I put 11 gallons in. That equals 33 miles to the gallon
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damn beat me already that sux
mine has never gotten better than 425
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Running till out of gas may get you clogged infectors as the tank sludge gets sucked up..
415 miles on 13.2 gal = 31.4 MPG (best highway cruise 75 MPH), I could extraplolate that if I used the full 14.5 gal that I "could" have gone 455 miles if I "felt lucky".
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I could probably push it to almost 475-500 if I wanted to go until the car sputtered, but that's really bad for your car, so I'd rather not find out.
I've gone as far as 400-ish (don't remember the exact number now, but it was right around 400 miles) on 11 gallons before I refueled. That was highway cruise @ 90mph, no speed variation, with the aircon on.
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On average road trips of 80mph speeds, usually will go right around 410-420ish miles when the light comes on. I've gotten up to 450 once before and IIRC, that next fillup it took in right at 13 gallons...  You do the math... Let's just say that I've gone to Dallas and back to OKC on one tank of gas... besides, the milage is always steady between 28-32mpg... Beat that Billy!! 
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ok now you have all made me very jealus. I only avg. 300-330 a tank. with mods when before i was avg. 400-460 so thats where i am at. I know thats bad but what do you do. and trick to jack my MPG back up i would gladly take. oh yeah its a Ztec/ATX. 
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I used to have similar, if not worse gas mileage than that, Midnight. I ran my tank almost dry, put in a bottle of Fuel Treatment and used a bottle of STP Oil Treatment as well. I noticed an immediate increase in gas mileage.
Some people think all that crap is just Snake Oil, but it alsost doubled my mileage.
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tried that i have ran count less bottle of fuel treatment. like B-12 , and sea foam. and lucus. and did the oil treatment thing so far no difrence. i am thinking of have my jets done by the shop again that helped last time i think its been to long. oh well we will see what i gat with my new tranny when i gat it back this weekend i hope. 
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I made a mistake in my post, it was 340 when I filled up with just over 1/4 of a tank left, I think that would end up over 400 somewhere
didn't ddavis say he got 505 in another post when his light came on?
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