What kind of fuel mileage do you get?

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Brady Moffatt wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> How do you do it? I assume you're talking US gallons? 145/80-14 tires at
> 100psi? A brick UNDER the gas pedal?
>
> In my 86 4kq, I get 17-18mpg (US) in mostly city driving, 23mpg highway at
> 75-80. Car seems to be running well with newish OXS and good CO reading,
> well tuned, 32psi in tires, brakes not rubbing...
>
> Cheers,
> Brady Moffatt
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada
> 86 4ksq, 285,000km
> 72 Datsun 240Z, 180,000 miles

That's about what I have gotten in the last 3 4kqs I have owned too. My
first 4kq back in 1987-88 (it was new) got numbers more closely
resembling Jim's, but that was on real fuel, not California's RFG II
fool. Best mileage I ever got from an Audi was in 1988 on a cross
country road trip in a then new '88 80q. Over 2700 miles traveled,
average speed of 62mph, and average MPG of 31.5. Not bad! Right now my
5ktq trip computer sez 25 for the last tankfull (combined city/highway)
but it always reads 15-20% high. My wife's ovloV 850t trip computer is
riding at around 15 (all city) and I have verified it to be dead on (one
thing that this car seems to do well besides go fast in a straight
line).

Mike Veglia
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