RE: mpg

[John Mullins <johnedod@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

cathrich wrote:
> 
> 
> hi, yesterday i took my 63 dodge for a blast out into the countryside. 
> car ran great, but am concerned about mpg. normally just drive it around 
> town & its been about a year since its been out on the open road. worked 
> it out at roughly 16mpg. thought from memory[bad as it is] i'd be 
> getting more. car is a standard 4 door sedan, 318LA engine 2brrl 
> stromberg carg, standard exhaust manifold with twin 2'' pipes. is this 
> mpg around the mark our should i be changing things. car dosent get 
> driven much as its on historic reg., which also means i'm limited in 
> what i can do so far as improvements. cheers richard [oz]
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> That sounds about right to me. I had a 4X4 truck 318 2 bbl automatic and 
> the best it ever got was around 12 mpg. My 383 2 bbl 65 Fury automatic 
> with 3.23s would get around 14. Hope this helps. John


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