[svt98t]

Hey all!
I'm not new to forums, just this one. A buddy suggested that I stop on by and see whats up.
So here I am!
I have two cars, which are pretty much polar opposites.
First, the 1993 Mercury Grand Marquis, the "Tank of Justice II". It has 210k miles on it, daily driven, and it's geared towards efficiency.
So far, I've had a best mpg of 28.5 and 516 miles on one tank of gas. Thats fullllll to sputtered-out-of gas-on-the-side-of- I80 empty. Which isn't bad for the piano and transmission I had in the trunk.
Mods include:
- Cold/Warm Air Intake, kinda custom
- MSD coil packs
- 9mm wires
- E3 spark plugs
- electric fan
- A/C delete
- 2 less catalytic converters (new down pipe, they removed the pre-cats in the new design)
- Aluminum driveshaft (-7 lbs)
- 17" aluminum wheels (-12lbs ea)
- 2.73 rear gears with Trac-Lok Limited Slip for winter
- factory dual exhaust with Thrush Turbo mufflers and Marauder tips

After each mod, the car responded better. Up to 26.67 mpg full of crap. Like 4 winter tires, 2 boxes of books and a dinning room table in the back seat.

Idealy, I'd love to hit 30 mpg. I have a motor waiting to go in, and I may swap the iron block for an aluminum one and drop 84 lbs off the front of the car.

I know there's a lot to read, but I'm happy to be here and look forward to meeting some new people and getting ideas.

Thanks for reading.

-ryan s.