obs MPG

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Where are all the guys from the MPG thread who said they were averaging 20MPG+

I guess you mean my thread?

I'm right here, with my 18.7 mpg. Actually, almost all of my driving is in town, and I live 3 miles from work. With that for a daily trip, most of my fillups are averaging 12-13 mpg. The rare occasions that I hit the road seem to make me much happier about my mileage.

I'll be going BACK to the mountains in October. I'll check my mpg again then, too.

 

[Trippers99hoe]

I guess you mean my thread?

I'm right here, with my 18.7 mpg. Actually, almost all of my driving is in town, and I live 3 miles from work. With that for a daily trip, most of my fillups are averaging 12-13 mpg. The rare occasions that I hit the road seem to make me much happier about my mileage.

I'll be going BACK to the mountains in October. I'll check my mpg again then, too.

Well I was not meaning you specifically...But it was in your thread
I hope you voted in our poll!

 

[drowndindreams]

I say not climbing up the lawn is a good start.

Touche'. But I had good reason. We were moving stones.

 

[gpracer1]

I have not taken mine on a trip yet that is only highway. My 20% city and 80% freeway to work gets me about 17 mpg with AC on full blast....its freakin hot here.

 

[TheBlueBeast]

I'm waiting til I get my highway numbers from my trip home and back to school this weekend.

 

[Trippers99hoe]

I have not taken mine on a trip yet that is only highway. My 20% city and 80% freeway to work gets me about 17 mpg with AC on full blast....its freakin hot here.

Did you get a noticable (seat of your pants dyno) increase in power from the fuel system upgrades? I am real interested in the price vs performance/MPG increases.

It is hot as heck here to man ,The news last night said 66 days over 100deg and we have broken several high temp records this yr as well....So my A/C is on Full blast all the time as well.

 

[dave198911]

12-13 no matter how i drive it and ive recently done a full tune up didnt really help any

 

[04SS99Denali]

when i had my first 99 yukon i would reset the trip counter every fill up and i would see a consistant 150-160 miles per half tank. i never ran it down to the bare bones but the highest i got out of a full tank near E was 276. soooooooooo id say it got around 10 mpg lol

 

[Dalton916]

'96 4WD Tahoe with 5.7 and 265/75/16's 3.42. 19 miles one way to work and it's all back roads with 45mph max and I average 15.5 mpg. I'm currently 108 miles into a tank of ethanol free and the airbox cover off.....we'll see. I do get 18 +/- on the interstate.

P.S. I rarely get over 2K RPM....unless some turd provokes me

 

[gpracer1]

Did you get a noticable (seat of your pants dyno) increase in power from the fuel system upgrades? I am real interested in the price vs performance/MPG increases.

It is hot as heck here to man ,The news last night said 66 days over 100deg and we have broken several high temp records this yr as well....So my A/C is on Full blast all the time as well.

I did some mods listed and the dyno runs are identical which leads me to think that torque management is capping out. Sometimes when I downshift, I can feel the truck pull then suddenly drop off. So I will have to wait till I buy EFI live.

 

[sparg93]

a big part of this is the truck you're running with...some guys eluded to it, others didn't.

4dr 2dr 4x4 4x2 / stock suspension or lifted / stock tires or not.

SOOO many factors...even % of ethanol.

However, I don't give a flaming %^&$ what you drive, noone is getting 20+ with a 4dr....i saw a guy swear he was getting it a few months back on his 4dr.

Ok, I'm done

 

[Stresst]

a big part of this is the truck you're running with...some guys eluded to it, others didn't.

4dr 2dr 4x4 4x2 / stock suspension or lifted / stock tires or not.

SOOO many factors...even % of ethanol.

However, I don't give a flaming %^&$ what you drive, noone is getting 20+ with a 4dr....i saw a guy swear he was getting it a few months back on his 4dr.

Ok, I'm done

There were a few threads with 4 door trucks with 4wd getting 20+, then another thread with a guy with 4 people in the truck getting 22mpg! LMAO

Only if they knew what the real mileage was.

My stock truck had a brand new full tune-up, new K&N, tires inflated to 38lbs and on a 1000 mile all highway trip I got something like 14mpg average. Mileage between one fillup was 15.5 and that was the best ever the whole 7 years we owned the truck. I have a feeling my numbers may have been off cause I NEVER got mileage like then again.

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Just filled up after a tank of ALL city driving.

12.8 mpg

 

[Stresst]

Just filled up after a tank of ALL city driving.

12.8 mpg

Thats great. Like already stated there are just too many variables to compare mileage. Nevermind a 4wd 4 door with 373's versus a 2wd 2 door with 355's the word "city" can have drastic differances. Im in queens NY which is pretty much a rocks throw from manhatten. One lane side streets with stop signs or red lights pretty much every block. Did I mention traffic? LOL

While city driving to people in say upstate or long island have 2 or 3 lane side streets. Red lights every few miles, etc.So IMO we cannot compare mileage. Wish we could but no friggen way!

 

[Dalton916]

'96 4WD Tahoe with 5.7 and 265/75/16's 3.42. 19 miles one way to work and it's all back roads with 45mph max and I average 15.5 mpg. I'm currently 108 miles into a tank of ethanol free and the airbox cover off.....we'll see. I do get 18 +/- on the interstate.

P.S. I rarely get over 2K RPM....unless some turd provokes me

Need to add that mine is a 4 door and I check mileage EVERY time I fill up. I have also used a gps for extended runs to verify the odometer. I have been as low as 12.x for a tankfull when not hauling anything and right at 10 pulling a camper (probably even below 10, but I was too damn depressed to check it, LOL).

 

[TheBlueBeast]

Ok, so after a trip home, and a trip back to school, about 117 miles each way, this is what I have to report.

Going home 22.3 MPG, coming back to school 20.6. And yes I hand calculated these, I'm a grad student, which means I spend most of my time broke, so I don't have money for fun things yet, and I don't think a mileage calculator would be something I'd put near the top of my list anyways.

I have a 4-door, 4 wheel drive 1996 'hoe with 3.73, P265's (radar checked the speedo, it's right on). It had a whole 107K on it when I got it, and I just broke 111K on the way home. I have done no mods...yet . This truck is basically a grocery getter an older gentleman had around home, and for what I can tell, didn't do a whole lot of hard lifting in it's early life.

The one thing I do, and I do this every long drive is I drive at about 61 mph. The tach is reading about 1600-1700 RPMs, I don't floor it and I press the go pedal like there is an egg shell underneath my foot.

At the same time, my in town mileage is anywhere from 10-15, so I really think there is something to be said about that range of RPM's. Also I think there is a slight overall downward slope from school (Purdue area) to home (Fort Wayne Area) so that might help too. What I mean by that is there is more going downhill than uphill on the way home. I usually see slightly lower mileage coming back from home.

Rather than hi-jack the thread, if anyone has anymore questions, PM me and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities, but I'm not very mechanically inclined, I can only tell you my driving habits and what I know about the truck (which isn't much really).

 

[Dalton916]

16.5 on the ethanol free tank. (had to go to GA this weekend....no highway, all backroads)

 

[gpracer1]

I just did my routine "check the tire pressures" on the hoe .......been 2 1/2 months and the tires were all at 32 psi . Door says 35 and I put them back at 40. Should see +1-2 mpg highway just from that.