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RE: Mileage

I don't know, fellas.  I drive like an idiot.  Every time I get in the car it's like they say, "a run for the border."  Mine's an '86 8V totally stock and I get no less than 30 and no more than 31(freeway).  That's putting in about 11gals to get around 340+miles and the needle is just touching the red.
When alignment was all out of whack, mileage dropped a good 4 points at least.
On the other hand, I skip gears, so unless there's some obvious reason that I'm not getting max power (more gas, more horse), whattya think?
Darren


>When my Scirocco had a 1.7, I would get 33 mpg on the freeway.  Your
>16V  can go 350 miles on a tank only because it has a bigger tank('82
>'roccos have a 10.5 gal tank).  With the 1.8 w/ timing bumped up and a
>g-grind cam and close ration tranny, I got 22 (ack!) mpg.  At stock
>timing, I went back up to 27 mpg...

>FWIW,
>Chris G

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