Re: 5-cyl mileage

[cmice@mke.ab.com (Christopher Ice)]

At 10:32 PM 3/22/95, grant f lenahan wrote:
>A new member (welcome!) was complaining about
>300 mile tankfuls with a 16 gallon tank in
>(I think) a 400CSQ.  Assuming that you don't
>run DRY, that's about 20 MPG.  In 186,000
>miles on my 4000Q, and about 15,000 on my 90Q20V,
>that's about it.  I get 22-23 'round town, maybe
>24-25 on the highway (pure highway - a fictitious
>concept).  In the winter, on oxegenated RFG,
>take of 10%-15%.  That's now.  That's 20 MPG.


According to the computer on mine, I get 27 MPG in mixed driving --
slightly lower now due to oxygenated fuels, perhaps about 25 MPG.

Long duration highway driving yeilds around 28 MPG with an average speed of
about 75 (nobody saw me, so you can't prove it!).

My 90Q has 86K on the clock.

Chris

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