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**asshanson** · 06-16-2008

I finally got my starter replaced, works like a charm now, thanks Mark for the JDM starter!

I have also been running e85 for a couple weeks now, and the mileage is better than I expected. I'm getting around 18 in town and 21 on the highway. On my trip to Iowa this weekend I averaged a little under 20mpg, and that's with a little town driving, idling for an hour, and hauling a longblock as well (which I definitely noticed, a lot less vacuum than usual on the highway). It costs $2.85 everywhere in Iowa that I've seen, downtown Minneapolis it's like $3.25, I need to find a cheaper local station that sells it. Since I have a 16 gallon tank, I can easily go mid 200s on a tank.

I hear most people have to add like 35% more fuel or so, but I had to add almost 45% to get the fuel trims back to zero. The mileage isn't that bad so I can't complain too much, just wondering why this may be?

06-16-2008	#216
asshanson immune from paybans Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: West Des Moines Drives: poorly Posts: 4,358	Re: Make slowboy not so slow I finally got my starter replaced, works like a charm now, thanks Mark for the JDM starter! I have also been running e85 for a couple weeks now, and the mileage is better than I expected. I'm getting around 18 in town and 21 on the highway. On my trip to Iowa this weekend I averaged a little under 20mpg, and that's with a little town driving, idling for an hour, and hauling a longblock as well (which I definitely noticed, a lot less vacuum than usual on the highway). It costs $2.85 everywhere in Iowa that I've seen, downtown Minneapolis it's like $3.25, I need to find a cheaper local station that sells it. Since I have a 16 gallon tank, I can easily go mid 200s on a tank. I hear most people have to add like 35% more fuel or so, but I had to add almost 45% to get the fuel trims back to zero. The mileage isn't that bad so I can't complain too much, just wondering why this may be? Last edited by asshanson; 06-16-2008 at 02:03 AM..