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BlackTurbo;1025041 said:
No. The gasoline that comes out of the pump is temperature controlled i.e. the gas is the same temperature coming out of the pump day, or night.
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No. The gasoline that comes out of the pump is temperature controlled i.e. the gas is the same temperature coming out of the pump day, or night.
Get a Celica. Look similar to the Supra, destroy all in mpg. My 89 ST got between 30-35 with me rashing it half the time.
You can't just turn off the injectors to a couple cylinders and expect an increase in mileage... remember, unless you can keep the exhaust valves for the cut cylinders open you're still wasting power having to compress the incoming air.
CTsupra
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That's cute, thanks for the scrolling guys!
If you drive the car without boosting at all, it will help alot. Good luck with that! You should also start to pay attention to the red lights a little more. If you are on a busy street with a lot of lights, and you leave a light at about the time the next one starts to turn red.......take it out of gear and coast, while letting the car idle. Who cares if you are letting off while everyone else is still gassing it. Hopefully your coasting will allow the light to change back before you have stopped, and you can save some of the accelerating you would have done if you hurried up and got there and were sitting waiting. If the guy be hind you gets pissed, he can live pissed or change lanes. He doesn't buy your gas. If he hits you, it's his fault. I'm not saying to impede traffic too much, just don't waste the gas to get there and sit.
You can also see a stale light turning as soon as someone comes up from the side roads. Either slightly increase your speed to make it if you are close enough, or get ready to let off.
Remember that anytime you use your brakes or downshift, you are using gas you didn't have to if you would have just planned better.
If you drive the car without boosting at all, it will help alot. Good luck with that! You should also start to pay attention to the red lights a little more. If you are on a busy street with a lot of lights, and you leave a light at about the time the next one starts to turn red.......take it out of gear and coast, while letting the car idle. Who cares if you are letting off while everyone else is still gassing it. Hopefully your coasting will allow the light to change back before you have stopped, and you can save some of the accelerating you would have done if you hurried up and got there and were sitting waiting. If the guy be hind you gets pissed, he can live pissed or change lanes. He doesn't buy your gas. If he hits you, it's his fault. I'm not saying to impede traffic too much, just don't waste the gas to get there and sit.
You can also see a stale light turning as soon as someone comes up from the side roads. Either slightly increase your speed to make it if you are close enough, or get ready to let off.
Remember that anytime you use your brakes or downshift, you are using gas you didn't have to if you would have just planned better.
Coasting while in gear can save you gas over coasting at an idle... provided you're going down hill or intent on slowing the car anyway.
Another thing that will help some of you is to try and remember to drive with the transmission one gear higher than you usually do.
Most Supras that I've driven are not to be blamed for their poor mileage. I can get anything from only 16MPG all the way up to 24MPG, all city, depending on how I drive. (and that's not even babying it full time.)
Another thing that will help some of you is to try and remember to drive with the transmission one gear higher than you usually do.
Most Supras that I've driven are not to be blamed for their poor mileage. I can get anything from only 16MPG all the way up to 24MPG, all city, depending on how I drive. (and that's not even babying it full time.)
CRE;1026938 said:
now I dont talk about gearing much, does one gear higher mean one higher number? I dunno what it is that makes me confused.
maybe cause a higher number could be a higher gear, or a higher RPM is a higher gear.... blah
like....cruise in 5th rather than 5th? I've been wondering if its more economical to use 3rd or 4th in the 40mph range...
What was meant there is to drive in 4th rather than 3rd while driving 35-40 MPH. The theory is to move up to the higher number gear, so that your RPM's drop, thus using less gas.
ForcedTorque;1028077 said:
True, although there is also an area where the numbers overlap. It's where the throttle is being held open enough that the ECU is adding more fuel than would be needed at a higher RPM and less throttle.
SupraOfDoom;1024544 said:
Unless you're a stupid bitch:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/20/geo.metro/index.html
Easy there, Nocheez cheap cars do exist.
I bought a 94 Geo Prizim about 2 months ago for 250$. Yes Two hundred and fifty.
Put in a new clutch and runs great.
I have been averaging 38mpg. with 200,000 miles on the engine.
I bought a 94 Geo Prizim about 2 months ago for 250$. Yes Two hundred and fifty.
Put in a new clutch and runs great.
I have been averaging 38mpg. with 200,000 miles on the engine.
Piratetip;1028161 said:
Did you see the article? She paid $7300 for a GEO METRO. A car that was $9000 back in 1995! She paid more than 5 times the KBB of the car!
Yes I read the news.
Its called demand, people start spending more than what they should for these cars just because they want better economy.
Some people are smarter than others, these people are not, they are impulse buyers.
Its called demand, people start spending more than what they should for these cars just because they want better economy.
Some people are smarter than others, these people are not, they are impulse buyers.
Piratetip;1028190 said:
I know this. I calculate that she'd have to drive 80,000 maintenance free miles to make up for the premium she paid on that car (at $4 a gallon) to make up the difference on what she overpaid for that car. Simply laughable.
heres a way to get better gas mileage. everything stock. and swaping ur lead foot with an aluminum one 
but clean injectors fuel filter and keeping ur oil not looking like mud allways gave me better mpg
but clean injectors fuel filter and keeping ur oil not looking like mud allways gave me better mpg
You can even increase your mileage by running a lighter weight oil... running the lowest octane you can without knocking... tires full of air... new bearings on EVERYTHING... lighter rims... lighter tires (see: narrow)... refuse passengers... and so on. If you're going to all these lengths though you're better off turbo charging a Metro.