Daily gas mileage blab thread

[Daox]

Ooooh I'll be able to post here as soon as my mpguino is calibrated... that'll be about a month probably, ack.

[cfg83]

Hello -

54.4 MPG on the way home from work tonight. I was within striking range of my 57.3 max when I hit a slow-down at the 710-North to 10-East transition. At that point I lost at least 2 MPG. I don't think I would have broke my record for this route, but I would have been close.

CarloSW2

[tasdrouille]

I was practically alone to and from work yesterday, had plenty of time to time my lights perfectly. I rode my bicycle, it was great.

[trikkonceptz]

I must admit everyday this new car continues to surprise me and increase in FE. This morning I hit a new one way commute high of 45.7mpg avg. Considering I have done nothing to this vehicle yet, I am still waiting for it to max out before I begin modding to see the true impact of the mods.

Overall though, I can't complain. I'm creeping up on the 60 day mark and already have near 6000 miles on it .. switching to synthetic oil this week.

[philip1]

Drove from Charlotte NC to an IDPA match in SC and back yesterday and managed 37.1 with the A/C on and driving 70-75mph (temp stayed good too)

[NeilBlanchard]

FIVE out the past nine tanks have been over 500 miles!

[SVOboy]

Really wanted 60 mph on the way home from the DMV so I used aggressive P&G with EOC (no traffic) to get 61.07 mpg over the 2.4 mile trip.

[cfg83]

Hello -

The radio told me about a crash on the 710 South, so I took my backup route :

10 East at Rosemead -> 605 South -> 105 West -> 405 South -> Off Freeway

53.7 MPG
42   MPH Average
61   MPH Max
0.7  Hours
2831 RPM Max
32.8 Miles
207  Water Temp Max
0.6  Gallons

The 42 MPH Average is misleading. I hit sub-10 MPH traffic jams on the 605 South. Normally the Semis take the 710 South, but it looks like a lot of them took the 605 South to avoid the accident. In general I hate the 605 because people drive too fast and it seems like I almost always hit a jam. Today was no exception.

CarloSW2

[cfg83]

Hello -

I took an alternate route to work today. Normally I avoid the 605 because the average speed is too fast (i.e. accident prone), which leads to lots of traffic jams. But, sigalert.com told me the way was clear so I rolled the dice :

ROUTE : 
210 East -> 605 South -> 105 West -> 405 South -> Exit Freeway 
=> Roughly 38+ miles
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NET ELEVATION CHANGE : ~434 feet drop 
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SCANGAUGE "CURRENT" READINGS : 
59.6 MPG, 
0.7 Gallons, 
204 Water Temp Max, 
38.3 Miles, 
2504 RPM Max, 
0.7 Hours, 
63 MPH Max, 
49 MPH AVG 
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IAT READING : Hot Air Intake + dynamic grill block v3.0 led to 
Input Air Temp readings of around 120+ degrees F.
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WEATHER(.com) : 
65 degrees F, 
Cloudy,
64.5% Humidity, 
52.5 degrees F Dew Point, 
30.0 in. Pressure, 
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TIME : ~10:00 AM to ~10:42 PM (PST), ~42 minutes

I lost maybe 1-2 MPG at a 605-South traffic jam caused by a Caltrans far-left lane closure, but not enough to ruin the run. 59 MPG is a pretty good number. This implies that I could have a record run under goldilox weather/traffic conditions.

CarloSW2

[McTimson]

Where do you get your elevation change from, a GPS unit?

Those are some pretty good numbers. It's cool to think that you can go 38 miles with .7 gallons of gas - I mean, think of how far the average person could go with .7 gallons of gas, maybe like 20 miles or so.

I've been having to drive pretty long (100-120 mile) trips down route 17 in NY for the last week, so I've been learning the route more. At first, I was getting about ~44MPG, and then I had to rush back one day, so it was only 41-42, but the last trip, I got 47 going down and back up, so I'm pretty happy with that.