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Volgrath · 07-17-2009, 04:17 PM

hey there, just another new guy.

Here's my small fleet.
'97 mister*****y eclipse RS
'95 silverado Z71 4x4

The eclipse gets pretty ok gas mileage 30mpg when I'm not hypermiling, 35 when I am. The truck only gets 20mpg even with hypermiling. It's terrible! I need to do an oil change with it and it could probably use a new oil filter. It has a flowmaster muffer, but I have a feeling that the piping isn't big enough. It has 2.5" piping when I would prefer it to have 3" piping. But I guess that's what I get for letting my dad take it to the muffler shop. I suppose I can get 3" piping later and put 3" piping on the truck and use gradually cut bending to get the right bends. At least then it WON'T have crush bent piping. I tell ya, you pay for a muffler service, and you get 2.5" ID piping with 2.25" ID at the bends. For a 5.7L engine, that's just too small. ugh, I'm sickend with this crap.

07-17-2009, 04:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
Volgrath EcoModding Lurker Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Binghamton Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	just another new guy. hey there, just another new guy. Here's my small fleet. '97 mister*****y eclipse RS '95 silverado Z71 4x4 The eclipse gets pretty ok gas mileage 30mpg when I'm not hypermiling, 35 when I am. The truck only gets 20mpg even with hypermiling. It's terrible! I need to do an oil change with it and it could probably use a new oil filter. It has a flowmaster muffer, but I have a feeling that the piping isn't big enough. It has 2.5" piping when I would prefer it to have 3" piping. But I guess that's what I get for letting my dad take it to the muffler shop. I suppose I can get 3" piping later and put 3" piping on the truck and use gradually cut bending to get the right bends. At least then it WON'T have crush bent piping. I tell ya, you pay for a muffler service, and you get 2.5" ID piping with 2.25" ID at the bends. For a 5.7L engine, that's just too small. ugh, I'm sickend with this crap.