Keep and fix? Bash and trash?

[sasha055]

How do you get 25mpg? are you driving highway mostly?

I'm getting 16-17 on good days (and that's counting miles and dividing my gallons, no OC)

I have a 2000 base and driving 60% city 40% highway

Sasha

Originally Posted by eltren

Stupid Q: IMS cannot be done with the engine in the car, correct?

Pics forthcoming...though it might be a couple days, looks like the snow gods are about to have their way with us.

If memory serves, the car has 19"s. Hell I have the window sticker and the wheels were a $2300 option. I don't know the whole option list but I think the only things available for a base model that the car doesn't have are heated seats and the (?) 9-speaker system.

List for the car was about $53k

It's got Yokos on it, and I cannot see a damn thing wrong with them. Seem to have good grip, even below freezing.

There is definitely a clunk from the right rear strut, and there are major clunks and jerks from the front when reversing at or near full lock.

Small oddity today: The car had been computing mileage at a dismal 18.6 for weeks, and declining. Today I put in some crap ($2) injector cleaner, reset the MPG on the OC, and bam, 25 MPG. Interesting. Must be the OC.

Anybody know IMA Motorsport in Chantilly, VA?

Cheers!

[eltren]

Might just be the OC. previously when I've done the math on the gas mileage,
the OC was showing 18-19, long division said nope, 22. Will do again next tank.

Yes, HWY miles. VERY odd, mileage seemed to be improving the faster I went.
For a minute there I had almost 26 at 80 on level ground. Nah...can't be, can it?

The car is running far better now than it was, nothing I've done, just driving the MF'r.
When I picked it up from the cops it had been sitting for over a year.
When they thought about it they jumpstarted it and let it idle for a while to charge.
It was doing less than 15mpg the first week. Reeked of unburned fuel. Clean now!

BTW, how easy is it to flat-spot these tires by just letting a car sit outside?
This is Virginia. HOT, COLD, you name it.