Best car for gas mileage.

[bcp (Premo)]

I have to apologize, I mentioned my Olds in a thread that was discussing the best car for gas mileage.. I think I remember something about 4 or 5 mpg with that one.

[MrX (Premo)]

Originally Posted by bcp

you would have loved my car back in the late 70s, it was a two door Olds Delta 88, had the 455 with the turbo 400 trans. I redid the engine, bored 60 over, over sized valves, 400 lift 350 duration cam, shaved heads, double dome pistons, polished and ported, two holly 1250s on top, electric fuel pump, mallory hot box duel point ignition, had a 1500 stall converter in the trans along with a valve body change over.

That, was a running car once you got traction.

oh, and it was primer gray,, the ultimate sleeper till you heard the cam

Sounds like a fun gas guzzler!! Reminds me of my old car..87 Mercury Cougar with a 302 HO out of a Mustang, intake, cam, gears, built c4 Trans, and a lil bit of nitrous. Most people didnt expect it to run anything

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by MrX

Sounds like a fun gas guzzler!! Reminds me of my old car..87 Mercury Cougar with a 302 HO out of a Mustang, intake, cam, gears, built c4 Trans, and a lil bit of nitrous. Most people didnt expect it to run anything

I couldnt run nitrous in mine, not sure about today, but back in ancient times when I was doing it, you could not have over 9:1 compression, and the olds was running closer to 13:1

youngins today just dont understand getting your speed from power instead of RPM... big difference.
back then you would build an engine to push the trans and differential, today you build a modest engine and rely on the trans and differential to make its work easy.

[MrX (Premo)]

Originally Posted by bcp

I couldnt run nitrous in mine, not sure about today, but back in ancient times when I was doing it, you could not have over 9:1 compression, and the olds was running closer to 13:1

youngins today just dont understand getting your speed from power instead of RPM... big difference.
back then you would build an engine to push the trans and differential, today you build a modest engine and rely on the trans and differential to make its work easy.

You can run it on an engine with that much compression, just have to build it right and run good gas mostly.

I dont think my trans or diff lead a very easy life at all...lol. The Mustang is an 11:1, naturally aspirated small block, stick shift car on a drag radial.

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by MrX

You can run it on an engine with that much compression, just have to build it right and run good gas mostly.

I dont think my trans or diff lead a very easy life at all...lol. The Mustang is an 11:1, naturally aspirated small block, stick shift car on a drag radial.

You gotta give me a ride in it some time.

I had a roller cam for mine that had just arrived (already Paid for) that would have let me run it up to almost 8 grand instead of the valves floating at 5 grand, the day that came in, I cut a telephone pole in half with the side of the car.. needless to say,,,,,

anyway, the engine and trans ended up in a friends 64 nova. being a lighter car he was turning high 10s, low 11s with it at Capital raceway.

[MrX (Premo)]

Originally Posted by bcp

You gotta give me a ride in it some time.

I had a roller cam for mine that had just arrived (already Paid for) that would have let me run it up to almost 8 grand instead of the valves floating at 5 grand, the day that came in, I cut a telephone pole in half with the side of the car.. needless to say,,,,,

anyway, the engine and trans ended up in a friends 64 nova. being a lighter car he was turning high 10s, low 11s with it at Capital raceway.

no problem.

ouch, sucks about your car though.

[basher]

Originally Posted by bcp

I had a 82 bronco full size with the 302 cid make it 323,000 before it ever broke down on me.

well, I was only 4 years old when the 82 bronco came out.
Since we have 2 other cars, we avg. less than 10k miles per year now on the Corolla, I don't know if I'll hold on to it for another 10+ years to make it past 300k.

[mattvivslivesou]

My good friend that has a 94 Civic Coupe with a JDM B16A swap with the JDM ODB1 computer and basic bolt on’s (intake, header, hi-flow cat and exhaust). He's also running low 14s in the 1/4 mile with street tires and full interior and he is getting an average 34-40 mpg for his daily compute to DC. Oh, he also passed the emission testing for MD last month.

I have a 97 Civic EX 2 Door coupe, I am getting 32-36 mpg. Mine is stock with 150k miles… I bought the Civic about a month ago because I own a 04 4Runner with a V8 which averaged 16-18 mpg on the commute and about 12-14 mpg when I tow a 3k trailer.