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03-16-2009, 09:23 PM
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is 10 mpg normal?
my trucks is a stock 350 with a turbo 350 behind it. is 10 mpg normal? I was told and it looks like it that the motor is a chevy crate.
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03-16-2009, 09:25 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
Yes.
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03-16-2009, 09:25 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
That is about average for all of mine. It does have the wind resistance of a brick!
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03-16-2009, 09:28 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
LOL god I need a 700r in it
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03-16-2009, 09:33 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
wat would u get with 700r4
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03-16-2009, 10:00 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
the overdrive. may get 12 mpg then
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03-16-2009, 10:03 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
Yeh, if you do any freeway driving, the 700R4 will do you good. But 10 mpg is about normal.
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03-16-2009, 10:40 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
I don't know what your truck is (C-10 or C-20?) and I don't know your gear ratio, but all of the trucks I've had with 350's/TH350's and 3.08's got better than that. I get around 14 - 15 in my red '69 SWB 350/TH350 and just slightly less (oddly enough) in my blue '69 SWB 250/3OTT. I've has others that get 12 - 13, but I never had one that gets 10 unless it was 3.73 geared 1/2 ton or a 3/4 ton or bigger. I don't putt around like grandpa, but I don't drive like I did when I was younger either.
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03-16-2009, 10:48 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
My blazer gets about 10 and its like pushin a brick through water..
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03-16-2009, 10:51 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
10 - 12 is average. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=172346
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03-16-2009, 11:02 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
I was getting 10 down hill. I put a Holley spread bore on it and jetted it back to 58's added an 1-5/8 phenolic spacer. R45ts plugs at .050 with one of those white's speed shop HEI's. I get 13 now. I have a 700r4 to put in and hoping for 16-17.
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03-17-2009, 05:30 AM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
10 mpg is normal... just for comparison, my '99 silverado is not much better. its a 2500 4x4 extended long bed with the 6.0 and I get 12-13 on the highway
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03-17-2009, 08:12 AM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
I'll chime in with that being normal as well. I can't imagine getting more than 12 unless you drive like grandpa and never break 30mph. My best numbers with a new motor and good tuning is 11.
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03-17-2009, 10:42 AM
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I got up to 13 with a Edel carb #1404 on a 327/th350 The 1404 is sized for a 305 and rated for milage, not performance. It's an easy swap for a long trip. Newer big trucks aren't doing much better. My old boss' '02 2500 quad cab longbed SRW gets around 12 on the highway.
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03-17-2009, 10:59 AM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
I have a Holley 600 vacuum secondary with the black secondary spring(keeps the secondarys closed 90 percent of the time) and the best i got was 12.5 Highway, but i stopped checking my mileage when gas prices went down
P.S. i got 9.8 with the A/C on
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03-17-2009, 01:35 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
I have a 350 in my Chevy and a 402 in my GMC; both with 4.11 gears.
Both of them get around 10 MPG combination city/freeway driving, & about 13 MPG cruising the freeway & staying out of the secondaries. Having the aerodynamics of a barn doesn't help a whole lot, to be sure.
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03-17-2009, 08:22 AM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
I normally get 11.75 to 12. that's with a stock 350/th400 and 3.08's posi. now if i run the a/c, i get around 10, but i'd rather go with the windows down. i'm changing to a 355 and 700r4 this weekend, so if i've done my calculations correctly, i'll be sitting at 16 or 17 mpg after the swap.
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03-17-2009, 09:44 AM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
I had a 4wd 79 blazer that my dad gave me that had a sb400 in it that was completely stock. I got 9mpg no matter if you were pulling a 16ft trailer with a 1972 chevy truck or just driving it down the road. After awhile the quadrajet started to leak and rather than buy a kit to rebuilt it i had a carter afb I threw on there cause it was laying around and it jumped up to about 15.5-16mpg. I loved that blazer. Had to much cancer to try and save though. Good ol nebraska truck.
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03-17-2009, 10:39 AM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
Maybe it's my little engine, or the gears or...something, but 10, in my opinion, is fairly low.
My truck, even as tired as it is, gets a solid 15, with jaunts up to 17-19 if the weather and gas is good, and I only drive highway with minimal hot rodding. More info would help, but, like the other guys said, it's normal...just, not with my limited experience. -Sam.
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03-17-2009, 03:07 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
there an easy way to find the gear ratio for my rearend?
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03-17-2009, 03:18 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
The quickest way to check your gear ratio is to jack up both rear tires, then turn the drive shaft and count the turns it takes to rotate the tires one full turn. make sure both tires are turning. So then 3 - 3/4 turns of hte drive shaft for 1 rotations of the the tires is a 3.73 gear. a little over 4 is probably a 4.11, a little over 3 is probably 3.08.
You also can look at the glove box sticker, it may have it listed if it is still there and the rearend hasn't been swapped out. Oh! I have a 350 / 400t w/ 3.73 gear and it only got 12mpg. I installed a 305 (from a 86 chevy) with HEI and the best I could ever get was 13-13.5 on the highway running 65-70. Like everyone else it really does not matter if it was loaded or not.... Last edited by Woody; 03-17-2009 at 03:21 PM. Reason: added more info |
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03-22-2009, 09:08 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
Need some help- Im confused. I just jacked up the truck - I kept one tire from not moving I get 1 and 1/3 tire spin to one drive line spin. the truck is to have posi from what the spid shows but when I turned the tire the other side would spin in the other direction.
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03-22-2009, 11:41 PM
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03-23-2009, 07:38 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
I spun the tire and watched the drive line. only had one tire spinning.
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03-17-2009, 03:21 PM
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Re: is 10 mpg normal?
the spid just says positraction rr axle
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