Help What's The Average Gas Mileage Supposed To Be For My 95 V-tec
11-23-2005 | 12:30 PM
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Cool that helps alot,you guys have gave me alot of good info and I appreciate all the help.I'm still new to the honda scene,Ive been into mustangs all my life.Thanks again though for all the help and info.
11-23-2005 | 01:07 PM
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A flat spot on the tire wouldn't effect mpg enough that you could measure. Alignment WOULD affect it. I'm going to post a scan of my log book to my VX Hatch with the D15Z1 and we can all get excited about it.
What you are about to witness is the recording of fill-ups as I drove from Kansas City to San Diego and back. I obviously used many different gas pumps and drove mosty Highway on the 2nd half of the trip, the first half of the trip was Route 66 where I did a lot of stop and go, getting lost, taking pictures while the engine ran and so on. The MPG (far right column) varies from 29 to 52 mpg. This variation is huge. I attribute the difference to various levels of "full" when pumping as well as mixture of highway/city, headwind/tailwind, Up elevation and down elevation. The piont here is to take several tanks and average them together. There are 4 tanks from Phoenix to Salina where I averaged 44mpg. The last 2 tanks on the page, one was 47mpg and the next was 29mpg. Obviously, the first of the two wasn't truly a full tank and that made the 47 artificially high and the 2nd really shitty looking. The average of the two is 37.47 MPG.
On my new engine, there are 5 tanks were I averaged about 32 until I replaced the O2 sensor. Then averaged 40 over the next 6 tanks. It's cool to see it all on paper and to see your tune-ups pay off.
What you are about to witness is the recording of fill-ups as I drove from Kansas City to San Diego and back. I obviously used many different gas pumps and drove mosty Highway on the 2nd half of the trip, the first half of the trip was Route 66 where I did a lot of stop and go, getting lost, taking pictures while the engine ran and so on. The MPG (far right column) varies from 29 to 52 mpg. This variation is huge. I attribute the difference to various levels of "full" when pumping as well as mixture of highway/city, headwind/tailwind, Up elevation and down elevation. The piont here is to take several tanks and average them together. There are 4 tanks from Phoenix to Salina where I averaged 44mpg. The last 2 tanks on the page, one was 47mpg and the next was 29mpg. Obviously, the first of the two wasn't truly a full tank and that made the 47 artificially high and the 2nd really shitty looking. The average of the two is 37.47 MPG.
On my new engine, there are 5 tanks were I averaged about 32 until I replaced the O2 sensor. Then averaged 40 over the next 6 tanks. It's cool to see it all on paper and to see your tune-ups pay off.
11-23-2005 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Highmile
A flat spot on the tire wouldn't effect mpg enough that you could measure. Alignment WOULD affect it. I'm going to post a scan of my log book to my VX Hatch with the D15Z1 and we can all get excited about it.
What you are about to witness is the recording of fill-ups as I drove from Kansas City to San Diego and back. I obviously used many different gas pumps and drove mosty Highway on the 2nd half of the trip, the first half of the trip was Route 66 where I did a lot of stop and go, getting lost, taking pictures while the engine ran and so on. The MPG (far right column) varies from 29 to 52 mpg. This variation is huge. I attribute the difference to various levels of "full" when pumping as well as mixture of highway/city, headwind/tailwind, Up elevation and down elevation. The piont here is to take several tanks and average them together. There are 4 tanks from Phoenix to Salina where I averaged 44mpg. The last 2 tanks on the page, one was 47mpg and the next was 29mpg. Obviously, the first of the two wasn't truly a full tank and that made the 47 artificially high and the 2nd really shitty looking. The average of the two is 37.47 MPG.
On my new engine, there are 5 tanks were I averaged about 32 until I replaced the O2 sensor. Then averaged 40 over the next 6 tanks. It's cool to see it all on paper and to see your tune-ups pay off.
What you are about to witness is the recording of fill-ups as I drove from Kansas City to San Diego and back. I obviously used many different gas pumps and drove mosty Highway on the 2nd half of the trip, the first half of the trip was Route 66 where I did a lot of stop and go, getting lost, taking pictures while the engine ran and so on. The MPG (far right column) varies from 29 to 52 mpg. This variation is huge. I attribute the difference to various levels of "full" when pumping as well as mixture of highway/city, headwind/tailwind, Up elevation and down elevation. The piont here is to take several tanks and average them together. There are 4 tanks from Phoenix to Salina where I averaged 44mpg. The last 2 tanks on the page, one was 47mpg and the next was 29mpg. Obviously, the first of the two wasn't truly a full tank and that made the 47 artificially high and the 2nd really shitty looking. The average of the two is 37.47 MPG.
On my new engine, there are 5 tanks were I averaged about 32 until I replaced the O2 sensor. Then averaged 40 over the next 6 tanks. It's cool to see it all on paper and to see your tune-ups pay off.
11-23-2005 | 03:47 PM
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Mileage and Bosch Plugs
Hey,
First post here! I have a '94 Civic Coupe EX 5sp, with 230,000 miles. I normaly get in the high 30's, sometimes in the low 40's. Something I have noticed though, if you fill up with the car tilted to the right, i.e. the filler or the left side of the car a little higher that the right, you can get quite a bit more fuel in the tank. This can really mess up your calculations, best to take several tanks, and average them, or fill up at the same pump.
I also have been running Bosch plugs without any problems. I just read several comments that the Bosch's were NOT the plugs to run. These are the platimum ones......and they have MANY miles on them. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Mark
First post here! I have a '94 Civic Coupe EX 5sp, with 230,000 miles. I normaly get in the high 30's, sometimes in the low 40's. Something I have noticed though, if you fill up with the car tilted to the right, i.e. the filler or the left side of the car a little higher that the right, you can get quite a bit more fuel in the tank. This can really mess up your calculations, best to take several tanks, and average them, or fill up at the same pump.
I also have been running Bosch plugs without any problems. I just read several comments that the Bosch's were NOT the plugs to run. These are the platimum ones......and they have MANY miles on them. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Mark
11-23-2005 | 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by onegreedy
DAM MAN i think this is back when gas was like 1.25 per gallon
11-28-2005 | 12:39 PM
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Update,I totaly forgot that when I was checking my gas mileage the 1st time when I thought I was getting bad mileage,for at least 1/2 tank or more I was running with the check engine light and a bad o2 sensor,you should have seen the sensor when it came out,the end of it was completely gone,anyway I now have that fixed and have since re-filled and it seems to be doing alot better,I have been 80 miles and I have only used around 1/8th of a tank.And I just put 2 new tires on today fixing the tire with the flat spots,so i'm sure that will help even more,the way I baby this car i'm hoping for close to 40mpg.