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1. 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: Lester Ewing <lewing@sport.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:14:00 -0500
finally got through a good bit of fuel. Now granted this has been sitting in the shop for the last few months but i only averaged 18 MPG over the last 115 miles. Since I don't know what a good numbe
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00683.html (7,320 bytes)

2. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:32:28 -0400
Really bad! I get 25 with a Weber and my foot is always into it. You should be getting 32-36 easy. Are the chokes stuck on? Not the cable, but the jets themselves? -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00689.html (7,450 bytes)

3. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: Bill L <pythias@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:37:06 -0700
Hello Lester, when mine got down to 18 mpg i was really thinking rebuild.. when it dropped to 15 it was time... when i got to 12 i had the money and did it... i have a 1098, stock except for the cam,
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00690.html (8,132 bytes)

4. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: Jay Fishbein <type79@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:06:57 -0400
A friend who has an original 59 with a 948 with h1's has gotten 50 on the highway. jay fishbein wallingford, ct <http://home.ix.netcom.com/%7Etype79/> http://home.ix.netcom.com/~type79/ <http://home.
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00694.html (8,236 bytes)

5. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: "Jerry Goodman" <jerry.goodman@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:18:24 -0500
Last year I got approx 36mpg hwy with my 948 BE 59
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00695.html (7,552 bytes)

6. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: Lester Ewing <lewing@sport.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:52:25 -0500
Ok, so it's time to check everything again ehh.. did seem like it was running bit rough.. Lester .. thanks all!
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00703.html (8,133 bytes)

7. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: "Geoff Branch" <gjbranch@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:47:22 -0400
"He who checks the mileage on a Spridget ain't driving it right"-- Old Chinese Proverb
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00710.html (8,119 bytes)

8. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: "Robert E. Shlafer" <pilotrob@webtv.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:34:01 GMT
At only 18mpg you should be seeing lots of black smoke back there, Lester and most especially when accelerating. Otherwise, it's going overboard before it enters the combustion chambers. Cap'n. Bob '
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00718.html (7,663 bytes)

9. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: "Mark Endicott" <mark@nashvilletn.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:00:59 -0500
Lester, You got kids? I once thought my Acura was only getting about 10 miles per gallon until if found the siphon pump in my 17 years old daughters trunk. Her comment was "hey Dad, you taught me how
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00722.html (7,841 bytes)

10. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:42:39 -0400
Don't listen to chinese proverbs, like everything else from china, it doesn't work ;) -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00728.html (7,696 bytes)

11. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: "Geoff Branch" <gjbranch@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:02:38 -0400
I shoulda known I was gonna bit on that one, Frank!! Shoulda been "Old English Proverb".... Geoff Branch -- Original Message -- From: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@comcast.net> To: "Geoff Branch" <gjbra
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00731.html (8,314 bytes)

12. RE: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Miller (LBC's)" <lbcs@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:49:06 -0400
Ok, my Sprite gets about 40 with it's 948. What should my heavy rubber bumper 'B with it's 1600 be getting with a DGEV? I realize that it is a tank compared to the Sprite, but I'm only getting 18 or
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00739.html (7,964 bytes)

13. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:51:46 -0400
Ok, that's mo betta ;) -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00750.html (7,531 bytes)

14. Re: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: "David Riker" <davriker@digitalpath.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:21:50 -0700
Recently there was a "new" MGB on ebay, with the original window sticker intact. Do you know what the EPA rating was on the sticker??? Yup, 18 MPG. With siameze ports, catalytic converter, retarded t
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00756.html (8,136 bytes)

15. RE: 18 MPG???? (score: 1)
Author: "Robert E. Shlafer" <pilotrob@webtv.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:26:06 GMT
your RB MGB has a de-tuned 1800 motor that in it's pre-emission days produced 98HP or so with it's double SU set-up and 25mpg+ easily. Even the early post '67 emissions cars didn't do too badly with
/html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00759.html (7,677 bytes)


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