i only get 20 to 21 miles to the gallon everytime i fill up. i do drive fast most of the time tho.

 

Its the CAI. More air = More gas. Took my CAI off and I noticed my gas Mileage improve dramatically.

 

I can go 360 miles or so on a tank pretty easily...if I don't go over 70 and don't rev like I want to...

 

weak i go over 70 every day.. but the highways speed limit here is 70 so i gotta

 

i have an injen cai but still get an avg of 25 mpg i've been getting since the day i bought the car.. it takes a lot of discipline not to speed up and rev up to hear it..

 

Um...even after putting on my intake, I still got 29.98 miles per gallon 100% highway driving at 70. Intake doesn't change the mpg THAT much.

 

^ your right

I make a trip to and from Chicago and Columbus once a month, cruising at about 75-80, its about 350mile each way... I get about 31mpg, and still have about 1.5gallon left in the tank when i reach either Chicago or Columbus. I have a CAI and Exhaust!

Also, i have noticed, once the gas tank hits the halfway mark... it starting going down much faster than the first half of the tank... So the gauges are not very accurate. this has been the case for all my previous cars.

 

^^^ regarding the guage...yes.. after the halfway point...it goes down way faster than it did on the first half.

i drive all city..like 5% highway 95% city...so i get 20 mpg on average...so i know why its so low...

if i were you...id just fill up the entire tank...

 

I get about 24-25 mpg on average and I have a SC and I drive about 75 mph average on my comute. Its about 60/40 highway/city. I check my gas mileage every time I fill up and the lowest I've gotten was 23.5 mpg.

 

Ity sounds like you need to start taking the bus lol

 

Saving gas is all about the brakes . . . the less brake you use the more gas you will save. If you haven't changed your manual tranny oil then by all means do that too.

 

He'll always have that "Turbo Fund" to fuel his gas with.

 

This is pretty naive in this thread IMO. If you put a 6speed in this car that people are already complaining about gas mileage, you're going to lose a bit more b/c of the higher revs. 1-4th are usually the gears that we spend the most time in unless we're on the highway, and in a 6 speed, those gears are set much closer together and rev higher than in a 5 speed.

A 6 speed would be nice for overall output and get up and go, but not for economy purposes.

 

To to OP

You can only judge your mileage when comparing the acutal number of gallons burned to the actual number of miles driven. Here are the steps:

1. Fill up tank
2. Clear trip odometer
3. Drive
4. Fill up tank
5. Note number of gallons that go into the car.
6. Note number of miles driven since last fillup.
7. Divide -> #6/#5 (example 300 miles / 12 gallons = 25mpg)

Do this for 2 or 3 fillups to get a baseline of what your typical mileage is.

 

mine always gets at least 26 usually, it will get 29 mpg

 

I had my tank at exactly half and I filled it back up and it said I had got 8 gallons. And I believe our cars have 14 gallon tanks. But when I fill up from empty I never get more than 13.

 

When the Empty Light comes on you still have about 2 gallons

 

Oh boy. I thought the R stood for Refill










I'm not kidding.

 

You don't want to use the last gallon or so unless you are outrunning a mushroom shaped cloud or funnel. Sucking air through the fuel pump when you get that low can cause problems. Owners manual says get gas when the light comes on asap.