That sounds oddly familiar...

 

i can confirm it is very very close to 2.5, as i have run mine out of gas... more than once...

beers

 

Or, in my case 1 x my MPG.

 

i find that interesting, but i find your highway #s more interesting... at what speed do you cruise ?

beers

 

Between 85 and 105, depending on my mood.

 

any future fuel pump or filter problems is owners keep letting the light come on?

I don't recommend doing this on a ford fuel pump.

 

i hate you.. that is silly mpg with turbo at that speed.. put a 3.90 gear in and call it a prius..

and you light comes on after the needle hits the E? mine and most others i have seen comes on at to ticks above the E.

beers

 

i run mine down everytime... 71k miles one fuel pump..

btw,, my cup holders are not so bad.. i insulated them.. (pretending to care about this lame thread)

beers

 

Yeah, my light comes on after "E".

The higher cruise MPG is due to tuning. I've removed the stoopid-rich CAT preservation mode.

 

did you figure out the trigger to cat mode???

beers

 

I came in here looking to see how long an RX8 can run while rollin on ecstasy and found this MPG crap instead...

FALSE ADVERTISING!

=)

 

Its the driver, not the car.
All night, baby!

Well, I figured out how to "de-trigger" it.

 

not what i asked

of course you figured out how to fix it... hence you drive an econobox...

beers

 

Why, do you want to trigger it? I guess I could do that too...

 

DAMN THIS THREAD ALL TO HELL. I've always made a beeline for the pump when my light comes on for fear of running dry. Having read a few of these replies, I just KNOW that I will drive a little further and will wind up stranded on the side of the road. Great...thanks a lot.

 

Really, you probably shouldn't run it below 1/4. None of us should.
There is so much junk in the trunk...er...tank, that it all ends up in the pickup screen when you run it down.
It all ends up there anyway, but at least it can float away when there isn't a last-ditch siphon going on as it runs dry.

 

yep,

and speed kills. actually it is the sudden deceleration. i am a mad man..

beers

 

hey swoope, you live in Orlando right? how much driving on I-4 do you do? how much city and where is your driving mostly done? i'm just curious because maybe you could relate to our location and our traffic.

 

i live south west of orlando.. exit 55 on i4... i drive 15 miles each way to and from work... 80% above 55mph...

i get ~21mpg.

beers

 

That's pretty decent.

 

assclown....

it is not like your hybrid... i have been going green by getting parts that weigh less....

stupid me.. turbo, + tunning = al gore..... how many carbon credits do you get with one of those hybrid turbos???

beers

 

only once so far but most of my fillups happen in pretty short order of the light coming on.i

 

You made beer come out of my nose! (Paulaner Hefe Weisen.)

I'm only getting 14 MPG in typical driving. 20 on the highway, but I only do that on long trips. On a "typical" 10 to 50 mile highway trip, my speed shoots up and down between 55 and 125, so I don't see any "carbon credits"!

 

How big is the gas tank really? I ran out of gas with enough momentum to just coast into a gas station. The fill-up took 57 liters. It is supposed to be a 60 liter tank. The outside temperature was about -10C (14F) if that has anything to do with it.

 

The tank is really 15.9 gallons. What that is in canuck is anyones guess.