wjk0817

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Hello club
I wanted to share that i used to fill up 3 times a week $120 value a week ($500/months)
And just recently after owning it for over a year I set my idle at 900 (originally 1500)
The first fill up is at half tank and its almost been a week.
So fail
Just wanted to share


Garagelife ftw

clokker

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My takeaway from your story is that internal combustion engines use more fuel the higher the RPMs.
Who knew?

w0ppe

Cool.
Yep, and that's why I drive a Ford around as a DD... although Fuel efficiency wasn't that good in 1974 either...

misterstyx69

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I would like to know where you get 16 gallons of fuel for $40 bucks! (fill up).

Derekcat

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Misterstyx69 >> sounds like he's probably filling up at around 11gal. [$3.63/gal]

Also, kinda surprising that the idle would waste *that much* gas...

Wms10th

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It does...I was a mechanic starting out in the late 60's and one thing every tune up class I took hammered in to you was how important it was to set the idle speed to specs, which was usually as low and smooth as it would go.

southsidecox

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why in the world would the idle be at 1500(OP)? unless some prob. was causing it,that would be annoying as hell to me,not to mention the wasted fuel