well that sucks..just did my mpg and it came out to be 7.8 miles to the gal.........

 

you got a v8 in it?

 

In Houston...yeah...that's got to suck. Smog is gonna kick your ***.

 

Thats about what I get around town,about 20 on the highway though.Usually 15 gallons will get me 175 miles with combined driving.....price you pay.

 

Hmm must be the winter gas formula... I only got 18 MPG on my last tank as well

 

Must be the cold weather.......

 

damn the cold weather......its my car's horrid tunning..or lack there of. Damn thing smells like straight up crap when it idles and i just know its drinking my gas =( .....its starting to cost 2 bucks a gal here too....stupid gas...stupid un tunned car...stupid me for not having a job to pay for a tunner and buy a safc =(

 

1.98 here, and hows your o2 sensor, emmisions stuff? idle mixture?

 

That's funny because the EPA rating on an LS1 in a car that weighs 500 lbs. more than the RX7 is in fact much better than the 13Bs EPA rating. Weird how that works.

Make sure your car is in decent running order, then you'll probably get 15mpg at worst.

And don't bitch about gas prices, gas broke the $2.50 mark a while ago here.

 

haha but you live in cali.. :-p

i know my car is not tunned right..smells like complete crap at idle

 

makes me wanna get a NA as a daily driver....

 

Your complaining about MPG?

Sheesh!

 

my na gets 400 KM a tank...

sometimes not even that... i dont even know what to start on to try and get better mpg.

 

you own a rotary, you're not entitled to complain about gas mileage

thats like an SUV owner complaining about gas

take pride in how many gallons per mile the rotary takes

 

i would take pride if my car ran 10 secs......but its near stock lol :-/

 

i dont know how they come to those numbers. my friend had a dodge dakota that he tried and tried and couldnt match the gas it was supposed to get. i know another guy who has an '03 cobra which seems to hover around the 13.3mpg zone (no matter how he drives, quote unquote). they probably get those numbers since a v8s normal driving rpm is around 1700-2000rpm. as for me, thats about bogging. i believe the most efficient an engine runs is at its peak torque; assuming thats true (and i wasnt lied to ), look where v8's peak torque hits and where rotaries' (and small displacement engines) peak torque is.

my TPS was WAY off once. i was getting 13-15mpg (91 na). after it was adjusted, i saw 19+.

i paid 1.90/gal for 87 tonight. i believe our minimum wage is at $5.25/hr, but i'm really not sure.

 

the ls1 is rated good cause the automatic transmission keeps the rpms at 1500 unless ur spinning the tires. if a rotary could put out enough torque at that rpm I bet we would have decent gas milleage. my buddie's miata that's supposed to get 40mpg freeway only got 20 on his 1000 mile roadtrip. EPA ratings are the best possible, not what you will actually get.

 

im hateing how the old s4 ecu and fuel injection design back in the day worked... so why not we all go CARB! probably get the same amount of gas millage but probly lil better torque.

 

I highly doubt that your car is running right. I wouldn't listen to the people that say its normal...I mean 7.8 miles per gallon!? I get 24 mpg highway and around 17 city. I would check the oxy sensor and its connection, then plugs and plug wires. Something is DEFINATLY wrong.

-Joe

 

Something is definately up.... My ported motor and BNR stage III get me 26 MPG on the highway... and I think about 1 gallon per mile at the track, (but i sepnt days tunig the haltech for highway driving as well)

 

wow, I don't think I have paid $1.90 for 87 since last year.

 

gas prices here are like 2.27 cents per 87 octaine in Orange county California.

 

i feel sorry for cali folk =( here in houston is getting to be 2 bucks for supreme 93 octane and i already feel the pain of it.

 

double post

 

I know what you mean. I'm only getting 66.7 MPG in my Insight.