Chipped mileage?

[Ed Kellock]

Years ago, I too noticed a significant drop in highway mileage when I went
from 205/60-15 tires to 225/60-15's on my Avant.

Ed

On 2/9/06, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What kind of tires? I've found that tires make a huge difference- I lost a
> good 2-3 mpg when going from 225 to 255 section tires.
>
> Even with 255s running about 36 psi, cruising at about 85-90, I got
> 25-26mpg
> on a 5 hr. trip. Chipped 200q20v with Lehmann software and Stromung
> exhaust.
>
> Taka
>
> On 2/8/06, Mike Del Tergo <mdeltergo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Curious to beat another thread to death.  Currently getting 21MPG hwy
> for
> > Hohenester chipped 2.5P ransduced 20V Avant.  Just took a 600 mile trip
> > with
> > less than 3 x on ramp/merge slach warp speed passes with cruise set to
> 75.
> > I'm not really willing to accept a 20% MPG drop from my usual for very
> > occassional 270HP bursts, better throttle response all around excepted.
> > Just curious to see what others are getting and the chips they are
> > running.
> > Mike
> >
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