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Tank #1 24mpg. 70% city, 30% back roads flogging.
Tank #2 25mpg. 1/3 city traffic, 1/3 highway 1/3 mountain road flogging.
Tank #3 26mpg. 70% highway, 30% city traffic. This included lots of 80-85mph cruise.
I like to run it down toward the bottom of the red so all of these fill ups were 12-13 gallons each. With a 15 gallon tank that leaves another 2 gallon reserve when you get to the very bottom of the gauge. For the first time ever I saw 340 miles on 1 fill up. That was exciting.
I'm very happy with the results so far. All the parts from the swap have thus far have been completely reliable. I get an annoying buzz from the shifter knob and thats about it. I plan to replace it with something a little more custom in the near future.
For highway driving theres a few modifications that seem obvious to me. The car was already converted to electric cooling fan a couple of years ago. But the 4 mud flaps for example seem completely superfluous to me and the source of a lot of drag. I have to remove those. I plan to add few aluminum panels to the bottom of the car such as between the trans X member and the center drive shaft mount and ahead of the front axle to fill in some of the gaps. Other than that my last project is the AC before summer hits.
On the road again.
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