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    Victory! I just installed new spark plugs wires, and a whisper lid.

    I achieved 30.1mpg @65mph!!!!! :excited:

    I have been trying to hit that number since I got the car in January 2010.

    I am satisfied now.

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    Re: Finally hit 30!

    Huh... I get 32-33 at 85mph..

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    • #3
      Re: Finally hit 30!

      Originally posted by Docta View Post
      Huh... I get 32-33 at 85mph..
      I do not know how you achieved that. I tried really hard to get that number. Easy breaking, neutral towards stops, etc.

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      • #4
        Re: Finally hit 30!

        Originally posted by Docta View Post
        Huh... I get 32-33 at 85mph..
        Yeah...I never see that happening.
        Last edited by flamingchicken; 08-31-2012, 08:44 PM.
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        • #5
          Re: Finally hit 30!

          I think I only measured MPGs twice in my Camaro. Once at an ave. speed of 90mph through the mountains @ 26.5mpg and once with about 75% highway at 29.5mpg.

          30mpg @ 65mph sounds about right for an in-shape engine. I don't buy 33 @ 85 unless it was 3.08s with 100% highway and a tail-wind.
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          • #6
            Re: Finally hit 30!

            Originally posted by TheGr8Schlotzky View Post
            I think I only measured MPGs twice in my Camaro. Once at an ave. speed of 90mph through the mountains @ 26.5mpg and once with about 75% highway at 29.5mpg.

            30mpg @ 65mph sounds about right for an in-shape engine. I don't buy 33 @ 85 unless it was 3.08s with 100% highway and a tail-wind.

            I agree...but I did have a friend say he got 33-34 @75...but he couldn't tell me what he did special other than cat back and intake.

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            • #7
              Re: Finally hit 30!

              Originally posted by Docta View Post
              Huh... I get 32-33 at 85mph..
              Here, I'll just be blunt.....



              BULL****.

              Stop lying, you do it often. Just be yourself and you make friends.
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              • #8
                Re: Finally hit 30!

                For a minute there I thought you meant YOU hit 30!!! :D

                On my trip to Vegas non-stop and steady at 65mph, where everybody else was going 85mph, I calculated 31mph on mine with Borla, Random Highflow Cat, Taylor wires, NGK plugs, K&N Filter, Whisper Lid, and Ram Air kit.

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                • #9
                  Re: Finally hit 30!

                  Well I was driving from Colorado to California, so completely downhill. I don't remember wind or anything like that. I know that I got 540 miles out of a tank. Call me a liar all you like, doesn't change that it happened. Car has 3.23 gears 5 speed. This was last year, I drove to Albuquerque a few weeks ago and got 28.
                  Last edited by Docta; 09-01-2012, 03:45 AM.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Finally hit 30!

                    Yeah, I thought you were happy you hit 30 posts or lived long enough to reach an age of 30 years old. I have never measured my mpg. I just put 20-30 bucks in it a week and try to stay home.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Finally hit 30!

                      I got a best of 28 at 70 mph, 5 speed and 3.42. On my way across texas. Filled up a lil above half a tank with 245 miles.
                      Team NoVa

                      2000 Firebird- Intake, Pacesetters, !cat, full 2.5 to flowcrapster, 1.9 rockers, LS6 springs and Intense modded retainers, WS6 speedlines, T/A bumpers and hatch, 5 spd swapped, SOON TO BE nitrous'd and cammed.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Finally hit 30!

                        My 3400 in my Grand Am regularly reaches 30 mpg.. once hit 34 on a trip. **** you Camry.
                        1995 Patriot Red T-Topped Z28 A4<br /><br />Mystery rebuild in progress.<br /><br />Soon to have 383 ways to beat KBreezy and Shane. :D

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                        • #13
                          Re: Finally hit 30!

                          I recall hypermiling the 3.8L at 50 mph and coasting in neutral when going down hills in the Connecticut Valley and highways. I did the math twice and came up with a 30-something figure in the summertime only. It was the new tires and gasoline blend that helps with the decent mpg figures.

                          I am close to 354,000 and averaging 27 -29 mpg lately because my commute is loaded with awful construction delays and thick traffic that works me up so bad that I have to speed past these morons in the fast lane. :rant:
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                          • #14
                            Re: Finally hit 30!

                            Originally posted by 96RS Alex View Post
                            I recall hypermiling the 3.8L at 50 mph and coasting in neutral when going down hills in the Connecticut Valley and highways. I did the math twice and came up with a 30-something figure in the summertime only. It was the new tires and gasoline blend that helps with the decent mpg figures.

                            I am close to 354,000 and averaging 27 -29 mpg lately because my commute is loaded with awful construction delays and thick traffic that works me up so bad that I have to speed past these morons in the fast lane. :rant:
                            I know what you are talking about, I live close to Danbury, so I venture into CT often. At least neither of us use 287 near white plains, that has been under construction for 50 years.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Finally hit 30!

                              Originally posted by KJZ28 View Post
                              I do not know how you achieved that. I tried really hard to get that number. Easy breaking, neutral towards stops, etc.
                              neutral towards stops actually uses more gas than coasting in gear

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