Gas Mileage

soo i was talking around with my friends about our cars and how he was talking about a performance part that he was going to "buy" soon that improved his mileage by 3-6 miles is this true and if so where the heck would you get one!! thanks a lot

haha maybe 3-6 miles per tank, not 3-6 miles per gallon.

if hes talking about one of those "electronic superchargers" or "tornados" then i hope you google it or search here about it. They aren't any good. Just hook a pc fan up in your intake pipe for 14 bux and thats what you got.

Waste of money.

hmmm ya well i havent bought any thing yet i was just wondering because i was gonna say if you get 3-6 more gallons per mile that would be awesome but i dont know because it wasnt a supercharger or anything like that but i dont know i'm going to take more search into this stuff.

trust me, johnny, nothing short of voodoo will net any significant gas milage increase. and the savings to recover the cost will take years to add up.

best thing to do is keep ur truck tuned up, tires aired up and dont carry excess **** in ur vehicle.

alright thanks i mean i was just wondering because i would really love somthing to make my mileage better lol but its all good

I bough a cat-back exhaust, and they are supposed to increase gas milage, but not really, I tend to like to rev it up every one in a while. So if I am supposed to get an increase in gas milage I think so, but I really don't know if it does.

I recently bought a Secrete Weapon-R intake, it cost about 200. While stepping on it I gained about .5 miles to the gallon, while stepping on it about every chance I got. I will take my gas millage and repost it later with out stepping on it. Whatever you put on though, your foot will usually still rob you of a gas mileage increase.
Although, In my old car, an Achieva (3.3 v6), when my parents got it with 22,000 miles on it it averaged 15 miles to the gallon and never got over 18 on highway. When I took it over we tuned it up, made sure the air intake tube was getting enought air, so we put it in front of the radiator, thus giving it more air, and I put on a Magnaflow exhaust with the original cat. I then averaged 25 miles to the gallon in city/highway. I'd say try looking for what the Explorers increase from the Magnaflow exhausts, everyone claims they like the increase from those exhausts.

magnaflow **** rocks.

I hate the sound it gives off for a car. They are made for V8's. It may sound ok for the larger vehicles

nothing sounds good on a 4 banger and only large V-6s sound good with magnaflows. my 300 sounds good but its an inline. they aint made for V-8s kido...

the magnaflow on my 4-banger sounds pretty decent providing it is a 4-cylinder. Probably one of the best sounding 4-cylinders I have heard.

im not saying a magnaflow on a 4 banger wont sound "good" i heard a few that did. but it aint no V-8

sound or no sound.
there is no replacement for displacement

true^

http://www.sigmaautomotive.com/

welll i am looking around for a magna flow that would go for the X but i was talking to my brother in law and his friend about stuff and he was saying stuff about a Bullydog Downloader that increases in like TONS of stuff and he bought one it increased in power and gas mileage sooooo i mean would that be a way to go or what..maybe magnaflow+Bullydog Downloader???

http://sigmaautomotive.com/tofit/fuelsaver.php wellll thats what i went to and i'm looking at it and i dont know it LOOKS like it would save some and also increase a lot like the Torque and the 0-60 looooks pretty nice what you guys think??

^ you arent serious are you?

What are you high, do not put that crap on your car. If you want better MPG then the most you can do is light bolt ons and a tune (make it run lean as possible and still be street friendly). CAI and header(s) will help increase MPG but nothing to bust a nut over. I know my LPE CAI has given my car a slight boost in fuel economy but in the end it only amounts to a couple of extra miles per tank.

sc3106 wrote:

http://sigmaautomotive.com/tofit/fuelsaver.php wellll thats what i went to and i'm looking at it and i dont know it LOOKS like it would save some and also increase a lot like the Torque and the 0-60 looooks pretty nice what you guys think??

its been proven to not work.

you can look at the other stuff on the site but stay clear of the magnets.

This thread is funny.

I guess i was high when i was looking at that site haha but no i looked more into it and you are right it looks like CRAP soo i wont be going with that at all..but i am still looking into the magna flow because they kick a$$..so maybe someone can point me in that direction for a good one with a good price?? thanks for all the help

www.autoanything.com thats where I got mine

have you even considered that fresh spark plugs, wires, a new O2 sensor, and a clean drop in air filter can boost your mpg more than anything else.

I went from 19mpg highway to 25ish just by doing that stuff to "tune up" my car. Which was running fine.

I clogged or slightly clogged cat can hurt things just as bad.

yeah i have "tuned" up everything in there mostly and it really hasnt boosted it much a little but not much

Then the next step is a CAI and headers. Depending on what kind of engine a lean tune might help too. Remember you drive an Explorer your not suppose to do on gas.

hmm well i guess i will start looking around for stuff again..thanks

http://www.preplayground.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1822

good stuff there.

thanks, i'm looking as we speak..and it looks pretty nice stuff i found some other stuff like chips that i might go for.