2000 GT gas mileage? can't believe mine

I got 30mpg in my 96 GT a couple times.

John

93 GT

Last Monday I got about 8mpg. Mine has around 35K miles, but the Gators are long gone. Here's why.

Is that at the festival curve at PIR?

I believe your right. Turn 2 in the chicane? Ever drive it?

Well, it's not the same thing but my stock 93 5.0 manual, with 2.73s, can get - I swear! - 30mpg on the highway if I drive it in 5th at 60mph. Any faster and it goes to about 25mpg at 70mpg. So I'm the guy on the highway in the red 5.0 at 60mph... :) Wave if you see me. :)

Brad

The only time I got to drive it was a sampler course (road, autox, skid car, etc.) with Pitarresi Driving School (Now known as Pro Drive) back around 1992 or 1993. I've driven autox on the infield a couple times and have been to the track many other times over the years. I live in Albany a bit more than an hour south on I-5. I'll be playing golf not too far from there tomorrow (oops, later today). Do you live in the area?

My 89 LX automatic got 26 city, 27 highway when stock and only a couple years old. Then I added an Auburn locker, 3.73 gears, taller tires on

17" rims and a B&M shift improver kit. It dropped to about 18 mpg all around. I did find that if I drove the interstate at about 85 mph instead of 65 mph that my mileage improved to about 22 mpg. Guess that put the RPMs in the sweet spot.

I was at a SAAC open track event last Monday(not a member)and got to see some pretty cool cars out on the track. I'm a transplant from socal. Now in Oregon City. I work with a guy from Albany, He and his wife drive a Prius to Wilsonville and back.

Years ago I went to a few meetings of a Cobra owner's club in Portland. They couldn't stand the SAAC people, said they were all too stuck up. I don't know what happened between the groups, but there was obviously some animosity. I didn't believe half of what they said about SAAC.

I barely remember Oregon City from when I was a child, but it's supposed to be a nice area?

I'll have to watch for the next SAAC event and try to attend. Maybe I'll see you there.

I like it here. I left a real rat race behind me and I don't even like to go into Portland that much. By Cobra owners, you mean Shelby, or Mustang Cobra's? I can't see SAAC people looking stuck up to real Cobra owners. Anyways I chatted with some of them and they seemed cool to me, even though there were no real Cobra's there, I have talked with some of them at the Knotts Berry Farm Ford show. Looks like the next SAAC event is in September.

My car needs sticky tires and bigger brakes, but the nut behind the steering wheel is a major (weak link).

Went up too NHIS Sunday for the Nextel Cup race and I got 24.3 MPG. Most of the time I was going 70/75 mph except for the stop & go traffic close to the track. Martin

2002 GT 5 spd 243rwhp 285 rwtq

thank you for all your responses. i am still trying to figure out if the changing rear end fluid and new modifier made a difference or just weather changes. i will have to see what i get when it is 60 degrees and the air conditioner is not on. i will assume i have a good mileage car. i broke it in hard when it was new. rev it way out and then let off the gas. did that a few times for the first couple days.

I hope you were revving it way up with a load on it, not just while you were in neutral...

All car engines are designed to work against a load, Revving your engine in neutral is NOT good for it.

i did something like this, only on the street in first gear, not on a dyno. i did it the first three times i drove it out on the street