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Old 03-22-2010, 11:32 AM   #2 (permalink)
ATaylorRacing
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The longer the trip the more correct your mpg will be...and more so if you refill at the same pump, same wether conditions, etc. I used to let the pump go on the lowest speed until it clicked off, but there is a large difference in the pumps. On one 100 mile trip the pump would not even stay on since I used so little amount of gas, but the same trip at other pumps always took under 2 gallons to fill normally, and a couple of times they only clicked off after 1 gallon....using those last two pumps would have given me a inaccurate mpg average of 100 mpg..WAY NOT RIGHT. The only way I can think of to eliminate this problem is to install a 4 or 5 gallon fuel cell and fill it up to the same spot every time. The extra 5.5-6.5 gallons of gas that I will not be carrying around when full is worth about .4 mpg better FE.
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