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Old 06-22-2011, 03:37 PM   #15 (permalink)
Diesel_Dave
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White Whale - '07 Dodge Ram 2500 ST Quad Cab 2wd, short bed
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I don't have avg mph data. I don't have a Scangauge (yet) and my gps is having issues. Most of my driving is to/from work. It's 40 miles and takes me around 1 hr 15 min -- so that works out to be 32 mph average.

My truck has just over 80k miles on it. Only the last 10k miles are mine.

Tires are the ones that came on it, size 265/70/17. I think the brand is Scopion Pirelli STRa (or something like that). As far as I know, there's nothing special about them. Someday I'd like to go to LRR tires, and maybe even increase the diameter of the rears, but I just can't justify the cost to myself when the tires are almost brand new. On that last tank I was running 60 psi on the front, 50 psi on the rears. The max sidewall is 80 psi cold, so I've pumped all 4 up to 70 psi for this next tank.

As far as pics go, the truck was bone stock as far as aeromods go except for me taking the wipers off when it's not raining (1 wiper when it is), so there wasn't really anything for you to see. I still had an open bed. Last weekend I made a bed cover out of some discarded plywood and lumber at a construction site I went by (gotta love FREE!!!). I also made a "stealth" upper grill block with some cardboard spray-painted black. I blocked off the whole portion of the grill that's part of the hood. I'll see about posting pics of the bed cover and grill block.

I keep a daily log of my trips to/from work, using the factory installed trip fuel economy. I made 18 trips on the last tank. My first 5 trips on this tank (after the tires, bed cover, & grill block) have averaged 6.5% better than the last tank. If that trend holds, I'll be over 32 mpg on this tank.
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1 Year Avg (Every Mile Traveled) = 47.8 mpg

BEST TANK: 2,009.6 mi on 35 gal (57.42 mpg): http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...5-a-26259.html


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