Re: 5ktq Fuel Economy

[Todd Phenneger <phen9461@uidaho.edu>]

WHere are you located.
	I to live in Idaho.  (Northern to be exact, in Coeur d'Alene in
the summer but I am in school in Moscow "u of I")  Are you still in
Idaho???
	Anyhow, Nice to see some people are getting the same results as I
do. :-)
	L8R

	Todd Phenneger
	1984 4000s quattro / modified/ awaiting Turbo Transplant.
	1985 4000 quattro / Silver / Fixing it Up.
	1987 4000cs quattro / Saphire Metallic Blue/ Girlfriend's
	1996 A6q / Volcano / Dads Car
   *****1985 5kt / PARTING OUT!

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Jeremiah Kristal wrote:

> 
> 
> <<snip bit about test methods used to determine mileage with high octane
> vs. regular gas>>
> 
> Another datapoint.  My summer job was in a town about 120 miles from where
> I lived, and I would often come home for the weekends.  I did numerous
> tests and found that I got about 2-3 mpg better with Supreme.  I always
> filled up on my way home, at the Chevron or the Texaco, and did almost no
> city driving.  The car was an '84 Chrysler Laser Turbo (it was fast, and
> that's about the only good thing about it).  The owner's manual specified
> regular unleaded, but I felt it performed better with supreme.  I would
> get 28-31mpg if I averaged 65, 22-25mpg if I averaged 100.  (Idaho has
> quite a bit of wide open road.)
> 
> Jeremiah
>