11-12 on the road? Yikes!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/depressed.gif[/img]
I afraid don't have any suggestions for you. Are your numbers from the console computer or done by hand? Is your truck 4X2 or 4X4? 3.73 or 4.30 axle? What kind of tires? how much AC (including defroster)?
My brother has a stock Y2K F250 XLT CCSB 4X2 V10 AT 3.73 with Michelin LTX M/S tires, and he gets 15~16 on the road with up to 5 people and a pile of bikes and luggage on board. He managed ~13.7 last summer with that load and towing a 3,250 lb trailer from the DC area out to Montana and back @ 65 MPH (his V10 + 3.73 did a tad better than my V8 + 4.10!).
Tire pressure up.
Performance air filter.
skinny tires are better for fuel MPGs.
take it easy with the go pedal.
I think anything around 12 MPGs is doing good.
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Sell it and buy a diesel. I get 11.4 uphill, downhill, off a cliff, idling. Under 2000rpm's don't work with 4.30's. Exhaust didn't work either. Long story short, they don't get good gas milage. That's why I bought it, to make the environmentalists mad[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smokin.gif[/img]!
Check my sig. I still only get around 12. Maybe 13 if I'm lucky (downhill in neutral with a tailwind). Still goes like hell though 0-60 in 7.0 and the quarter in 15 at 92. And I drive like I'm running the drag strip most of the time as well, so I guess that probably doesn't help me.
I'm sorry, and I don't mean to offend anyone, but, I can't friggin believe any of you bought the V10 and even have a care in the world about the gas mileage. Mileage is not what this truck is about. I just don't understand... Ok, go ahead, flame on...
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I'm sorry, and I don't mean to offend anyone, but, I can't friggin believe any of you bought the V10 and even have a care in the world about the gas mileage. Mileage is not what this truck is about.
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Come on! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img] We V10ers have to spend A LOT of $$ to get some more power out of these engines!
So it seems that some of us go the "other way". We look for mods and ideas to increase fuel mileage.
Hell, any dope can buy a tuner, slap it in his PSD, call himself the "Mod Master" and flick boogers at us gassers BUT what really turns heads is when someone like the guy above or any one of us, finds out how to get a solid 18MPG average out of our V10s!
So, maybe it's not so much about "caring" about mileage as it is the challenge to find a mod or combination thereof that will take us farther on a tank of dead dino! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
I agree with you Monsta. Nothing wrong with modding in that direction. It just seems that most people I see on this site that are talking about gas mileage on their 10's, are whining or complaining about 1 or 2 miles per gallon. 1 or 2 miles per gallon doesn't seem like modding to me. Sorry if this hits people the wrong way. I just knew, plain and simple, when I ordered this truck, that it was built to do what I wanted it to do when I mashed on that throttle and if I wanted mpg's, I should've bought a Kia...
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Come on! We V10ers have to spend A LOT of $$ to get some more power out of these engines!
So it seems that some of us go the "other way". We look for mods and ideas to increase fuel mileage.
Hell, any dope can buy a tuner, slap it in his PSD, call himself the "Mod Master" and flick boogers at us gassers BUT what really turns heads is when someone like the guy above or any one of us, finds out how to get a solid 18MPG average out of our V10s!
So, maybe it's not so much about "caring" about mileage as it is the challenge to find a mod or combination thereof that will take us farther on a tank of dead dino!
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Very good post... one of the best opinions I've seen in some time!!!
I have a diesel F350, 99 and I dont get much better,, I often see as low as 13 around town, and Diesel fuel is more expensive than regualar around here so the difference in price almost equals the price.. I have done a ton mods and upgrades and to be honest,, I would trade a identical V-10 for mine.. I cant stand the noise and I don't tow anything large enough to warrant the torque
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Hell, any dope can buy a tuner, slap it in his PSD, call himself the "Mod Master" and flick boogers at us gassers BUT what really turns heads is when someone like the guy above or any one of us, finds out how to get a solid 18MPG average out of our V10s!
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Why waste a good booger? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img]
Seriously, I doubt claims of 18mpg on a V-10 as much as some of the claims on the PSD. I'm not flaming, just questioning the process of checking, as well as if it's repeatable.
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