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1. [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: CoolVT@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:51:42 EST; After reading a recent article on a Corvette it caused me to do some thinking. How is it that a 3500lb.(approx.) Corvette with 400 HP can get 32 mpg on the highway and a 2500 lb. Tiger with 164 HP ca; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00212.html (8,292 bytes)
2. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: Stephen Waybright <gswaybright@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:25:10 -0800 (PST); The gearing is a big part of it, and the drag coefficient compared to a Tiger as well, but as much as I hate to say it, my impression is that GM has done an incredible job optimizing the efficiency o; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00213.html (9,354 bytes)
3. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: <arado7@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:35:55 -0500; I have found that new technology in fuel and engine control improves MPG. My 2005 Triumph Rocket 3 motorcycle(2300cc) gets up to 50mpg, the same as my 1973 Norton 750 Commando. The Rocket 3 produces; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00214.html (7,459 bytes)
4. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "Smit, Theo" <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:51:43 -0700; For a highway test it's not about the horsepower rating of your engine, it's how much power you need to get down the road at 55 mph (or whatever the speed is), plus driveline friction and other incid; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00216.html (9,707 bytes)
5. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: CoolVT@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:05:04 EST; For a highway test it's not about the horsepower rating of your engine, it's how much power you need to get down the road at 55 mph (or whatever Is the drag coefficient based on an over-all model and; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00217.html (7,870 bytes)
6. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "Peter Stanisavljevich" <pete_stanisavljevich@coxtarget.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:08:21 -0500; Perhaps the biggest gain came from study of flame propagation in the combustion chamber (Thermal Enginerring?). Honda did some ground breaking work in the 1960's for their racing motorcycles. If you; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00218.html (7,993 bytes)
7. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "Smit, Theo" <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:11:07 -0700; The drag coefficient is a ratiometric number. To determine the actual drag force you have to multiply by the effective frontal area of the vehicle (and the square of the speed, etc.). So the 'vette,; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00219.html (8,860 bytes)
8. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: CoolVT@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:14:18 EST; Theo, thanks. I guess that was part of my original point. Although the Tiger is probably a brick moving through the air, it still has a pretty small frontal area. **See AOL's top rated recipes (http:; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00220.html (7,410 bytes)
9. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "Thomas Witt" <atwittsend@verizon.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:45:11 -0800; Mileage can be a mystery. I had a 260 Falcon that that I did everything to enhance mileage. The best I ever got was 21 MPG going 50 MPH. A friends mom had a much heavier Montego with a 302 and got 24; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00226.html (8,811 bytes)
10. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: Tom Hall <modtiger@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:58:15 -0800; My early 302 roller cam with a 5 speed and 2.88 gears routinely pulls 26+ mpg at freeway speeds. Cruises comfortably and quietly at about 1900 RPM at 70. The other secrets involve carb sizing and jet; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00227.html (9,055 bytes)
11. [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: Steve Laifman <SLaifman@SoCal.rr.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:28:14 -0800; Lot's of talk about gas mileage. My father used to tell me "Show me someone who knows his gas mileage, and I will show you a failure in life." Of course, that was when gas was $0.25/gallon. On the ot; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00228.html (7,419 bytes)
12. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: CoolVT@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:38:50 EST; It's much easier today....take a 4200 lb. full sized car.....Caddy or big Mercedes, get it up to 65-70 mph, set the cruise control and get 26-28 mpg. Pretty amazing and it will only get better with; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00229.html (9,081 bytes)
13. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: Sandy Ganz <sganz@pacbell.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:57:17 -0800 (PST); Yes, good foresight! If people are looking for better mileage, how about an Alpine engine swap into your Tiger's ;-) Technology had done some amazing things to help move the mpg up on cars and still; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00230.html (10,065 bytes)
14. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "Steinman, Bill" <wsteinman@pogolaw.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:59:38 -0500; I only have a passing interest in the mileage of my old cars -- I casually monitor it to see if it's really bad, then I say to myself "huh, must be running a bit rich." :o) Bill S. 2005 Lotus Elise 1; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00231.html (8,884 bytes)
15. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: CoolVT@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:30:44 EST; My early 302 roller cam with a 5 speed and 2.88 gears routinely pulls 26+ mpg at Tom, Thanks for that bit of information. That was my next question...if someone with a stock 260 and 5 speed found bet; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00234.html (8,255 bytes)
16. Re: [Tigers] gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "Kirk Smith" <twotigers@verizon.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:41:27 -0800; About 35 years ago my boss told me that men always lie about 2 things: Their sex life and their gas mileage;) Kirk B382000503 _______________________________________________ Tigers@autox.team.net htt; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00235.html (7,737 bytes)
17. Re: [Tigers] gas mileage (score: 1): Author: CoolVT@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:43:08 EST; About 35 years ago my boss told me that men always lie about 2 things: Their sex life and their gas mileage;) LOL, LOL **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00236.html (7,937 bytes)
18. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "William Lau" <mrlau@charter.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:48:23 -0600; My dad (born 1908) said the same thing about his Model A. When cars got hydraulic lifters and you had to adjust them while the car was running he couldn't accept it. Even worse about 10 years later w; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00238.html (7,787 bytes)
19. Re: [Tigers] Gas mileage (score: 1): Author: Chris Thompson <chris@cthompson.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:15:34 -0500; I knew you were going to say that Steve - I remember it well from years ago. I don't know the gas mileage of any of my dozen cars, although I do know the mileage on my F-250 s*cks. Don't ask me about; /html/tigers/2007-12/msg00248.html (7,871 bytes)

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