Increasing horsepower but increasing MPG?

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07-14-2006, 04:53 PM

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BlackCrow

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Sorry i meant boost control management.

07-16-2006, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by mikeyman

I have a old digi camera you can buy. 30 bucks and thats shipped to your door my man... it's a decent kodak... giving you a deal to see this swap... so if you can afford an rb swap im sure you wont miss the 10 gallons of gas the 30 would buy... so how bout it? I'll even through in a copy of photoshop 7.0

c'mon 30 bucks cant beat that, we wnat some pics buy the camea. i would buy it for yeah but i think you would just keep the camera and not take the pic anyways. then i spent 30 bucks for nothing.

07-17-2006, 01:01 AM

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yup it's a deal and a steal!

07-17-2006, 06:43 AM

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BlackCrow where do you live, someone on these boards MUST live close enough to take a few pictures, BUT untill then, Im pulling the bs flag.

And dont take this to offence it's just one of those things you've gotta see to belive, its not every day someone with an RB comes strolling around.

07-17-2006, 08:41 AM

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Are you really from southern new hamsphire? Because i do live near you.

07-17-2006, 09:15 AM

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This is mildly ironic because yes, I live about 20 min. from manchester, AND I have a digi-cam.

07-17-2006, 09:41 AM

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I'm currently living in Boston

also i go to Nashua every saturday to the arcade there. But i wont be driving the S30 for a while https://www.zdriver.com/forums/240z-260z-280z-performance-technical-124/transmission-breaking-19266/ theres my explanation.

07-17-2006, 09:50 AM

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Thats alright but once you do get it running im sure ill find out, im also going to europe for about a week so that should give you a head start. I visit Nashua pritty often I have a good friend that lives down there.

What arcade do you visit? I think I know where youre talking about.

What part of boston do you live in?, I also have a lot of friends that live there.

07-17-2006, 09:53 AM

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I go to funworld i play IDAS ver 3 and WMMT2. And currently i live in Newton.

07-17-2006, 10:07 AM

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HAHAHA this is too good, one of my friends used to work at fun world! I am having a brain fart at where Newton is but Ive been there before, you probibly live an hour +/- from where I live. TO COOL!

07-17-2006, 10:09 AM

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I bet you want to test drive it also dont you?

07-17-2006, 10:15 AM

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HELLLLLLL YYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, I wont break a thing, or speed i swear.

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07-17-2006, 01:22 PM

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Just remember that car runs as it is enjoying her dangerous ride.

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07-17-2006, 06:21 PM

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I'll take that as an invitation to beat the hell out of your car if I ever have the once in a life time chance to drive it.

07-24-2006, 03:45 PM

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Fill your car up with gas. Then drive it about 200 miles. Then fill your car up with gas again. Take the total amount of gallons you used to fill up and divide it by the total amount of miles you driven. That is the most accurate way to calculate. Keep im my when you fill up top off the gas tank and reset your tripometer.

07-25-2006, 02:02 PM

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In theory if you have an engine that has lots of torque at low rpm without much fuel consumption and a tall geared rearend then you get good highway mpg that way.

I swapped out my 3.9 for a 3.54 rear and kept the tall geared 5-speed in my NA 280ZX. I usually would get 27-28 mpg on the highway. I took a trip to Cali and calculated my mpg at 31-33 consistantly on the way down and back. This is over the mountains and keeping about 70-75mph speed.

I used to get 21-23mpg overall and with the 3.54 I was getting about 23-25 overall going to and from work.

Now I have a poorly running turbo engine and I'm probably back to getting 21 or less juding by how much fuel I go through.

07-25-2006, 02:27 PM

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I remember when I bought mine. With how far out of whack the timing was and everything. I only had to drive it 120 miles back and I went through almost half a tank. Now that was bad. Luckily where I bought my turbo the price for premium was the price of regular back home. So I was able to fill up for really cheap.