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Old Jun 28, 2004 | 06:54 PM
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Dunno what to tell ya... welcome to Austin, Tx... 2222 -> 360 from my house to work and back... plus up 360 @ 70-90mph.

Thats my routine... and I run it hard (2222 is a twisty fun 30-45mph (posted) road)...

Argue as you want, but I run ithe mother hard...and enjoy myself. Nothing much more to say about it really.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by RACER
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Old Jun 29, 2004 | 12:39 PM
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I usually get about 200 to 230 in the city and about 360-370 on the highway (like on a road trip or something doing 70-80mph)..... and i thought my mileage was bad!
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Old Aug 1, 2004 | 05:08 PM
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I have right at 14,000 miles on my car and I just noticed a decline in my mpg. It wasn't a major difference, but I used to average 27 or 28 mpg (as early ago as late May) on the interstate at 82 mph (4.5 hour trip). This past weekend the best I averaged was 25.7 at 82 (same trip). Could it be something as simple as higher humidity (as the temps were about the same)? It wasn't much over 75 degrees when I was getting my 25 mpg. After reading about the redline and amsoil products, I may have to order some of that.
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Old Aug 1, 2004 | 05:14 PM
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AC on? Buy a K&N improves your mileage and get some small ponies also
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Old Aug 1, 2004 | 05:53 PM
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No AC used in either case (higher or lower mpg). I have an AEM CAI...
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Old Aug 1, 2004 | 07:09 PM
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Miss this one. Should have moved to S2000 Talk originally.
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Old Aug 1, 2004 | 07:39 PM
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i get between 280-320 miles per tank depending on how i drive
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Old Aug 1, 2004 | 07:45 PM
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As an experiment, just to see what kind of milage I could get, I drove carefully to/from work (surface streets) with the AC on and got 32.4 MPG. I was amazed, but I have not seen that since, usually get about 28 MPG. On the week ends my milage goes down accordingly, especially with eight runs at autocross. Milage is currently 29k miles.

I am currently paying $1.96/gal for 91 octane at Costco, other places it's ten cents more.
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Old Aug 2, 2004 | 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Random1,Aug 1 2004, 08:45 PM
I am currently paying $1.96/gal for 91 octane at Costco, other places it's ten cents more.


You suck





j/k
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Old Aug 3, 2004 | 01:31 AM
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Why is the fuel down there so low in octane rating? We must use premium unleadead for the s2k here in austarlia and thats 96 octane. I use 98 octane fuel and in japan i think they have 100 octane.
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