New record on MPG for me.

[snowtrooper1966]

400?

Are you sure you cleared your odometer?!?!

You, sir, crack me up!

James

[cyronman]

You, sir, crack me up!

James

i DID mean trip-ometer, but it looks like y'all knew that.

[nfpgasmask]

Sooner or later I am going to buy a new EGR myself. I want to see if it helps oil consumption as well...

Bart

[VehiGAZ]

Tom, SoCal, Pepino, Cyronman, et alia, you (and I) live in the wrong state to get good gas mileage. We have to pump reformulated gas into our tanks, which returns lower mileage. Coastie gets the good stuff in central Florida - pure, conventional, non-reformulated, non-oxygenated gasoline! Lucky duck!

I fill up on conventional gas in VT and upstate NY whenever possible, and I have seen as high as around 18.3 mpg on the good gas (driving like an old lady after getting 2 speeding tickets within 10 miles of each other on Rt 7 in VT!). Now, I personally have never put 22 gallons into the tank (I'm sputtering before that), but 400 miles per tank is entirely feasible at 18.5 mpg (that's a 21.6 gal fill-up), especially in Florida, where the biggest hills Coastie has to climb are highway overpasses.

I think this topic of conventional vs reformulated gas has become my official soapbox rant.

[Ascinder]

What plugs coastie? How did you know the old ones were too long?

[Zorak]

Coastie gets the good stuff in central Florida - pure, conventional, non-reformulated, non-oxygenated gasoline! Lucky duck!

Hmm, that would explain why I have always gotten at least 18 mpg on my VX (which I did not think was all that great) since I've had it. I feel so special now, almost makes me happy to pay $3.36 a gallon here in good ol central FL.

Of course, 2-3 months from now, if we get one or more hurricanes through here and then we won't be able to get gas at all for days/weeks....but that's another issue.

[JHarris1385]

So I live in Southern, IN right in the county with the BROWN 7.8 RVP but work in KY in the N RFG w/ Ethanol GREEN AND WHITE stripes. So which one is better and if I step out of my county into the WHITE am I better off at any station?

I thought Coastie was in Cali.....

[Chopper]

So I live in Southern, IN right in the county with the BROWN 7.8 RVP but work in KY in the N RFG w/ Ethanol GREEN AND WHITE stripes. So which one is better and if I step out of my county into the WHITE am I better off at any station?

I thought Coastie was in Cali.....

Man...I love Florida......I can drive to Sunoco and get 93...94...104...and 110! It's good living in a racing town. Everyone else sells 93. My knock sensors are virgins

[VehiGAZ]

JHarris, I think you should buy your gas in Indiana. The RVP 7.8 stuff in Indiana is a heavier-molecular-weight gas that doesn't evaporate as quickly as conventional gas does (reduces smog from gas vapors). The ethanol-oxygenated stuff in Kentucky will give you lower mileage. Buy a tank of each and see what your results are. I'd be curious to know if there's any difference between the RVP 7.8 stuff and the fully-conventional gas you can get one county out.

Wikipedia has a decent write-up on gasoline and it's many variations. Here's some California-specific info

Coastie, I thought you were in FL! If you're in SF driving on 5.7% ethanol Cali-gas, I cannot believe that you are getting 18+ mpg. I don't know what's going on with your calculations, and I don't doubt that you are getting better mileage with correct plugs, but 18 mpg doesn't add up.