I hit 45.2 MPG on festiva auto baby!

[rerhard]

I hit about 45 mpg going 65mph but I have a cone intake and cut the exhaust tip off and put a '04 toyota matrix tip on it. Plus I use octane booster every 1000 or so miles(plus it's a $1 for it).

[festivaWES]

I'm gonna have to chart the mileage in some of my festivas....i can't complain though i get 25-27 in my tutu s-10

[Safety Guy]

My '93GL auto with B6 gets an average of 26 to 27 mpg in daily driving. On the trip to OS VII and back I averaged 37.3 mpg. I drove about 63-67 mph and have largish 175/70-13 severe weather all seasons.

Karl

[Festiva GTX]

^^agreed...if that is what you are basing your milage on instead of the actual gallons to miles traveled then I am sorry to say it is most likely wrong.
While on the Ohiostiva trip while I was on my way to the park with the rest of the pack I made mention to my son, he was riding with me, that I was at 300 miles at 1/2 tank. To that point it was the best I had gotten but I had been driving nice since I had filled up. I only ended up by the time I filled up with an mpg of 45. Nate was actually there when I filled up before heading home from the Ohiostiva meet and he thought that I was getting bad milage for my car being stock....lol, I agreed but was still happy since it was the best I had done since owning the car.

I don't think my fuel gauge is too wrong, it was not first time happend me to get 45's MPG.

Last week I got 468 miles emptying the gas by using good gasoline from Chevron

So second fill up I try use different gasoline cheap one from ARCO it still going to get 450's miles to emptying the gas in tank.

I believe 1990 (maybe protoype festiva or mod chip?) ECU have done somethng effects with MPG cause to run lean gas always.

What I notice with 0 to 55MPH it always slow and no matter how you stomp the gas it get hard catching up with freeway's speed.

Unlike my 1989 L-Plus auto very quick catch up on freeway.

[Gforcefd]

My automatic needs some help I am averageing about 29 mpg. Not sure where to start though. It has new gaskets and plugs, I guess I could get some new filters, and smaller tires (currently running 15's).

[ejp2fast]

my max is 35.6 for my auto, i am stop and go a lot in town though....

[GenevaDirt]

^^agreed...if that is what you are basing your milage on instead of the actual gallons to miles traveled then I am sorry to say it is most likely wrong.
While on the Ohiostiva trip while I was on my way to the park with the rest of the pack I made mention to my son, he was riding with me, that I was at 300 miles at 1/2 tank. To that point it was the best I had gotten but I had been driving nice since I had filled up. I only ended up by the time I filled up with an mpg of 45. Nate was actually there when I filled up before heading home from the Ohiostiva meet and he thought that I was getting bad milage for my car being stock....lol, I agreed but was still happy since it was the best I had done since owning the car.

[SIBladerunner]

Thats awesome. I've been gettin about 42 goin 70 on my commute everyday.

[Axlander9289]

Not to rain on your parade, but as a rule of thumb, gas gauges are not accurate enough to calculate mileage. A better bet is to divide the total miles driven on a single tank by the amount of gas (in gallons) it takes to fill it back up.

[Festiva GTX]

Here the few day ago picture from my old phone when the fuel needle reach 1/2 of gas tank on 226 miles on it.

The second picture have strange error file couldn't open it so I am working on it if i can recover it. but you get the idea 226x2= 452 miles total div by /10 gallon tank = 45.2 MPG

[Festiva GTX]

That's great for an auto! Were you going 45 mph for a whole tank or what?

I keep 55 MPH max for whole gas tank and try keep under 3,000RPM. also lot of hills and sometime stop in traffic. So I think it probably get better than 45 if it was on flat road and zero stops.

I always want try use 1990 ECU with 5 speed manual to see how much top MPG i can get...

The ECU 1992 or ECU 1989 it didn't give me good MPG and I don't know why make it different?

[neanderpaul]

That's great for an auto! Were you going 45 mph for a whole tank or what?

[25Horseplay]

The best I ever got with my auto was 38mpg.

[Festiva GTX]

I am surprised that my 1992 GL auto did reached 452 miles at 45.2 MPG!

I didn't add any mods on it and I fill up cheap gas type one.

Only one different is that ECU was from 1990 that's all I did swap it.

Also it load the power steering all time but not use with A/C

I will post pic here when I get home...

Anyone have sucess get 45 MPG on 3 sp auto festiva?