general question

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by stugray

I drive my car "hard" and get 30 MPG on 91 gas at 1 mile high.
Thats 390 miles per tank.....

And you cant hurt this car by "redlining" it.
It has a fuel cut before you can cause damage (unless you have a tune that raised the fuel cut)
If you miss a shift and mechanically redline it that is a different story

wtf ??!!?? how ???

[tahdizzle]

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[Stewie]

Originally Posted by asdf

I always see people posting high mpg figures and wonder how easy are you taking it all the time to be getting 30+mpg...

I'm averaging about ~26mpg lol. Lot of stop and go and quick highway trips to work in the morning with 1 or 2 longer highway trips per week.

Ive been getting about 27 mpg per the computer on the car

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by Stewie

wtf ??!!?? how ???

A mechanical overrev is where you're trying to downshift from 5th to 4th and you accidentally hit 2nd. You're not feeding in enough throttle to overrev the engine, but the speed of the ground and drivetrain will drag the engine well past its tolerances.

5th, 4th, and 2nd used as an example.

[asdf]

Originally Posted by mav1178

My BRZ (completely stock) got an average of about 35MPG going up to Mammoth and back in the summer of 2013. Averaged 32-33 from LA to Jackson WY and back.

All depends on how you drive and whether you aggressively accelerate.

-alex

Agreed... on longer trips that I've made where i did 90%+ highway driving I could see 30mpg, but I mean, there's no way I would see that kind of mpg daily driving to and from work unless all I did was open highway driving...

edit: I guess mpg would be higher if there was no traffic ever and not much stop and go

[Stewie]

for me, it feels like driving this car like grandma is good way to not enjoy the car for the reasons it was designed. i like shifting at like 3500 - 4000 grand just cause...to get "good gas mileage" you have to shift around 2500- 2700 rpm which is snoozeville...

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by gramicci101

A mechanical overrev is where you're trying to downshift from 5th to 4th and you accidentally hit 2nd. You're not feeding in enough throttle to overrev the engine, but the speed of the ground and drivetrain will drag the engine well past its tolerances.

5th, 4th, and 2nd used as an example.

i meant, htf are you getting 390 miles in a tank?

[stugray]

Originally Posted by asdf

Agreed... on longer trips that I've made where i did 90%+ highway driving I could see 30mpg, but I mean, there's no way I would see that kind of mpg daily driving to and from work unless all I did was open highway driving...

edit: I guess mpg would be higher if there was no traffic ever and not much stop and go

I commute 17 miles each way every day.
Then do mostly 2-5 mile errands. Rarely do any "highway miles".
I get 30 MPG.
2013 BRZ 100% stock 30k miles, with Stg1 OFT tune.
And I havent been driving quite as hard lately cuz I'm still on Snows.

[asdf]

Originally Posted by stugray

I commute 17 miles each way every day.
Then do mostly 2-5 mile errands. Rarely do any "highway miles".
I get 30 MPG.
2013 BRZ 100% stock 30k miles, with Stg1 OFT tune.
And I havent been driving quite as hard lately cuz I'm still on Snows.

/shrug

lol

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by stugray

I commute 17 miles each way every day.
Then do mostly 2-5 mile errands. Rarely do any "highway miles".
I get 30 MPG.
2013 BRZ 100% stock 30k miles, with Stg1 OFT tune.
And I havent been driving quite as hard lately cuz I'm still on Snows.

miles per tank?

[bababooey]

possibly due to altitude there is less oxygen in air thus the ecu dumps a little less fuel. personally im tickled to get 350 on the highway.

[kch]

Originally Posted by Stewie

i meant, htf are you getting 390 miles in a tank?

30mpg isn't crazy for our cars if you're gentle, and the tank is 13gal. 13*30 = 390, if you run it allllll the way out.

Heck, even on E85 I can pull off 280-300 miles per tank.

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by tahdizzle

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No one asked that question.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

No one asked that question.

It's still the answer.