Gas Milage Question
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Gas Milage Question
I was just wondering what everyone is getting for gas milage. Because mine is really crappy, and I wanna see what other people are getting.
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Depends on your definition of shitty mileage. Compared to my TA the 7 gets crazy good mileage. In the summer I get around 20 mpg, thats mostly around town driving, little or no highway. This time of year I get like 16mpg cause I let it warm up a lot, so it shoots it to hell. hehe, the TA gets 8 mpg on a good day, so 16 is good to me.
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Fresh rebuilt carb....stock port 12A w/14,000 miles rebuilt...18.5 mpg while it's cold (have to let it idle warm up as stated above...), about a consistent 19.2 otherwise....
The '80 streetport 12A managed 17.5, but the carb needed a quality rebuild after 3 years of hard duty...
The '80 streetport 12A managed 17.5, but the carb needed a quality rebuild after 3 years of hard duty...
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What do you mean by TA. And my car used to get like 11 miles to gallon, and now all of a sudden its like 6, or 7. I was thinking of my accelerator pump, but im not sure.
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Replace the cats and rebuild the carb....sad but true, if it hasn't been done already....you should make up the $$$ with the gas savings the way the prices keep going up...
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I took all of the emissions off of my car. I was geeting about 160 on a tank for about 3 months. Now all of a sudden its like 120.
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Originally posted by Rotary Revolution
I took all of the emissions off of my car. I was geeting about 160 on a tank for about 3 months. Now all of a sudden its like 120.
Thomas Stifter
I took all of the emissions off of my car. I was geeting about 160 on a tank for about 3 months. Now all of a sudden its like 120.
Thomas Stifter
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Originally posted by Rotary Revolution
I took all of the emissions off of my car. I was geeting about 160 on a tank for about 3 months. Now all of a sudden its like 120.
Thomas Stifter
I took all of the emissions off of my car. I was geeting about 160 on a tank for about 3 months. Now all of a sudden its like 120.
Thomas Stifter
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I'm not sure what i get.
But when my dad drove my car he said he got 20-23mpg in the city and around 30 on the highway.
It's a stock 12a with a K&N air filter.
Get one, it was a noticable change in mileage.
But when my dad drove my car he said he got 20-23mpg in the city and around 30 on the highway.
It's a stock 12a with a K&N air filter.
Get one, it was a noticable change in mileage.
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I've been calculating mine as about 15-16 mpg, which seems a little low, given the numbers some of you have gotten. I usually get around 225-240 miles per tank, which is completely full to completely empty (yes, i've actually done that, but just once, I tells ya!). Also, is the tank capacity really 16.5 gal.? I have an '84 GS, and I canusually get only 14.5 gal of gas into that thing.
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Yes, the SE tank is 16.4 gal. I know that most of the time I never got more than about 14.5 gallons per fill, even when the tank appeared to be near empty. So, I was originally wondering the same thing (Is it 14.5 gal or 16.4?). But once I got the tank really low and it took 16 gallons to fill. BTW, I usually got about 25 mpg highway in my SE, and it was running a bit rich.
EDIT: my mistake, thought that you had an SE. The SE tanks are 16.4 and I think the 12A tanks are 14.5.
EDIT: my mistake, thought that you had an SE. The SE tanks are 16.4 and I think the 12A tanks are 14.5.
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My last tank, with the car running like ***, was 21.9 mpg, 70% hwy, 30% city...
Hopefully with emissions removal, full exhaust, and a nicely tuned carb and ignition, I can get that up to at least 25mpg average hwy...
Hopefully with emissions removal, full exhaust, and a nicely tuned carb and ignition, I can get that up to at least 25mpg average hwy...
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Originally posted by eddierotary
no, all 84-85 rx7's came with 16.4 gal tanks the 79-83 came with 14.5 gals
no, all 84-85 rx7's came with 16.4 gal tanks the 79-83 came with 14.5 gals
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Originally posted by eddierotary
no, all 84-85 rx7's came with 16.4 gal tanks the 79-83 came with 14.5 gals
no, all 84-85 rx7's came with 16.4 gal tanks the 79-83 came with 14.5 gals
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my '79 has a different tank than any 81-85 car I've ever seen... I tried getting a replacement tank for my car, and the only ones that cross-referenced at any of the junkyards I went to were the 79-80 tanks...
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i'm getting a shade over 21highway and about 18-19 in mixed driving, 16 on the track. 85 gsl-se
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Originally posted by 82transam
wrong, I'm not sure when they switched tanks, I think all FB's have the larger tank, but I'm not sure, my 83 has the 16.4 gal tank, the haynes manual says when they switched, but I don't have it handy.
wrong, I'm not sure when they switched tanks, I think all FB's have the larger tank, but I'm not sure, my 83 has the 16.4 gal tank, the haynes manual says when they switched, but I don't have it handy.
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