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[Thread Backward] Re: Mileage/Power Improvement After BreaMsg # 4939 of 8004 on Powerstroke Diesel Conference (1)To: Dave, From: JJ Time: Sunday 01-25-98, 02:07 pm If fuel mileage is so important to you go back and get your other truck. Sounds like you'r sexually frustrated and need your truck to get your jollies off. Winter diesel is a blend of #1 and #2 unless you can get straight #2. Even then as it is colder out and it takes longer to warm up well your burning fuel right??? Is everything exactly the same between trucks? same tires,gears,tranie,wind restance,weight if not then dont expect the same mileage. If you want good fuel mileage get a horse & wagon. Then you can bitch and moan about that! JJ On Sunday 01-25-98, 01:45 pm, Dave said: -Ray, - -Try reading the damn post before shooting your -mouth off with your poetic waxings! I'm making -direct comparisons between vehicles, not saying -that it should get the same mileage as a moped! - -If you're so damned in love with your truck, go -outside and hump it, and stop wasting everyone's -time with reading your drivel - I'm here asking for -help, not erotica..... - -I've driven 5 other Powerstrokes, and the worst of -those got 18.4, with the others all over 19. And I -haven't seen much of any seasonal variance in -mileage on my IDI. Given a conservative median of -19, that leaves me down by 15%, which is rather -much for my tastes. Again, this is poored than my -IDI, which consistently runs upper 16s, with a high -of 17.3. I've heard that DI should yield about 20% -over IDI, so this definitely has my eyebrows raised. - -To the other person who's responded thus far: I -can't see snap idle stuff affecting highway mileage -and top end power. When did the EPA regs affecting -diesels last change? I know that something occured -on 1/1/95, but am not aware of anything more recent. - -Dave - - On Sunday 01-25-98, 02:29 am, Headhunter said: --I have 3375 miles on my 97 CC 4x2 DRW 4:10 A\T.... --Also have an ATS Performance Chip...yesterday I --hooked up to my Horse trailer, weighing in at close --to 5,000 lbs... I didn't even know it was on the --rear and my RPM was no higher at 70 than it was --when it wasn't on. This sucker moves out right --smartly. As for fuel mileage... you can not --actually get any kind of comparisons in the winter --unless you run several times in the winter and in --the summer. These critters get better than any --Dodge I've seen and if some one tellls you --different, he is just putting you on...I've been --there...done that. You have one hell of a pulling --machine that will give you better mileage than --anything on the market. If anyone is that unhappy --with the performance of the well engineered piece --of equiptment,,,than get rid of it and buy --something everyone else is lyeing about. Don't --mean to sound testy, but these are trucks and not --so foreign made, cramp your ass little itty bitty --truck. You have a "Man's Truck" and quit --complaining about the little shit. --------------- Ray --------------- -- -- On Sunday 01-25-98, 02:12 am, Dave said: ---Folks, --- ---Just picked up a new '97 F350 CC PSD, E4OD, 4x4, ---4.10 gears. Sadly, it seems to both have less -power ---and get poorer mileage than my '94 F250 SC IDI ---factory turbodiesel (w/ aftermarket turbine -housing ---& exhaust), 4x4, E4OD, 4.10. --- ---On other PSDs that I've driven, when tromping from ---a standing start, you can see the engine rev to -the ---torque converter's stall speed, and then, over a ---half second or so, feel the boost come on, via the ---seat of your pants, with a nice satisfying rush. ---This one is much less distinguished in its coming ---onto the boost. --- ---I don't hear any kind of rushing air sound, so I ---don't think that the exhaust butterfly is sticking ---shut. --- ---At about 175 miles, took it out solo, with an -empty ---bed, for about 200 miles, out and back, on terrain ---that gains elevation (1-2000 feet) fairly smoothly ---over the hundred mile radius, starting pretty near ---sea level. I got what I consider to be a miserable ---16.1 MPG, having filled the tank to the brim both ---before and after the run. --- ---On some steeper hills around here, it would barely ---pull beyond 70 MPH, taking 5-10 seconds to gain ---each additional 1 MPH. My recollection of my IDI -is ---that it accelerated in that situation at least ---twice as fast. --- ---So, my questions to y'all are: Is this typical ---performance? Anybody else disappointed? Any ---suspicions as to what's up? How much improvement ---can I expect as the engine breaks in, and how long ---will that be? --- ---TIA, ---Dave Replies to this message:
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