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not sure if it hasnt been done before but i think it may be a good idea to post what kind of mileage your getting in your civic (or other). im sure more has gotten more than others, but ill try to make it unique as possible.
heres guideline you can copy and patse to fill out:
-what vehicle is it? (include year, make, model, auto/manual?)
-what grade gasoline? (IE: 87 reg, 89 plus, etc)
-how are your driving habits? (granny, tracking, fairly hard, highway, city, include details)
-what are your mods (only state the mods that could affect mileage IE: intake, exhaust, wheels, etc)
-what grade motor oil was used when this record of mileage was counted? (IE: 5w-20/5w-30/etc)
-tips/advice on how to save gas or anything else that is neccesary!
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Mileage so far as of last fill up ... 38450.0 at 40.59 MPG, but that's only a little over a month of driving so far.
-what vehicle is it? 2002, Honda, Civic EX, 5 spd manual
-what grade gasoline? 87 reg
-how are your driving habits? highway, city, back and forth to work, some work mileage, bumming around with buddies (and yes 40+ year olds still bum around ... DID I HEAR ROAD TRIP??!?!?
-what are your mods ? So far only mod is the new owner.. Oh wait that's me so that would be an OLD MOD!
-what grade motor oil was used when this record of mileage was counted? Hummm oil cap says 5w-20, the window sticker says Castrol Syntec Blend (Yuck), I'm gonna assume that's what was in it when I bought it last month. August everything gets flushed and replaced and can start the compared MPG from there.
-tips/advice on how to save gas or anything else that is neccesary!
Hummm tips on saving gas... Keep up on the maintenance, if you are gonna let things slide with your car, may as well be riding a bike. Keep those tires properly inflated for everyday driving. What you do for racing and horsing around, that's a different story. But then if you are racing and horsing around, you really don't care about your MPG anyway.
Speaking of maintenance, if you are like me and don't know diddle about cars, find a good mechanic and have him tell you what MUST be done and when to keep the car up.
Keep the damn thing clean inside and out. If you care about it you'll tend to treat it better.
Best money saving tip, on road trips, your friends buy gas!
If you got cheap friends, they take the Greyhound and they can meet you there in three days!
not sure if it hasnt been done before but i think it may be a good idea to post what kind of mileage your getting in your civic (or other). im sure more has gotten more than others, but ill try to make it unique as possible.
heres guideline you can copy and patse to fill out:
-what vehicle is it? (include year, make, model, auto/manual?)
-what grade gasoline? (IE: 87 reg, 89 plus, etc)
-how are your driving habits? (granny, tracking, fairly hard, highway, city, include details)
-what are your mods (only state the mods that could affect mileage IE: intake, exhaust, wheels, etc)
-what grade motor oil was used when this record of mileage was counted? (IE: 5w-20/5w-30/etc)
-tips/advice on how to save gas or anything else that is neccesary!
2002 Honda civic Ex coupe
87 octane
95% highway miles
No mods, all stock
10W-30 Mobil 1 oil
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hah yes the K series will make your car fly.
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just got pulled over the other day for having JDM yellow headlights, the cop told me it was illegal to have yellow lights, only white, any comments on this. i was just sittin in my slab with trunk poppin and my candy paint drippin off my doors.
-what grade motor oil was used when this record of mileage was counted: 5w20 motor craft
-tips/advice on how to save gas or anything else that is neccesary: it a truck, you don't save gas lol
Car number 2:
-what vehicle is it? 2004, Honda Civic EX auto
-what grade gasoline? 87, why pay more for nothing?
-how are your driving habits? backrode, moderate
-what are your mods: none
-what grade motor oil was used when this record of mileage was counted: 5w20
-tips/advice on how to save gas or anything else that is neccesary: let the car break in first, the first 15k miles averaged around 30MPG, now I get about 36-38MPG, same happened with my last civic.
I had the car for < 2 weeks. I just put in M1 5w30 on Sunday. MPG should go up.
Doubtful, running thicker oil will cause more momentum drag on crank shaft and through out your motor so you now have to waste more power to push the oil through the engine. If somehting that simple would improve MPG, Honda would have sold it that way.
Doubtful, running thicker oil will cause more momentum drag on crank shaft and through out your motor so you now have to waste more power to push the oil through the engine. If somehting that simple would improve MPG, Honda would have sold it that way.
Oh, so changing the shitty oil out (who nows how old that oil was) and putting new synthetic won't help MPG?
Oh, so changing the shitty oil out (who nows how old that oil was) and putting new synthetic won't help MPG?
No, putting heavier oil in won't help MPG, new oil yes that will help MPG. But honda says to put 5w20 in, you are putting heavier oil, the light the oil, the less momentum drag you will have the less you engine has to work, hence the better MPG you get.... not really a hard or screwy concept here.
No, putting heavier oil in won't help MPG, new oil yes that will help MPG. But honda says to put 5w20 in, you are putting heavier oil, the light the oil, the less momentum drag you will have the less you engine has to work, hence the better MPG you get.... not really a hard or screwy concept here.
Well, if you would read my post you will see that it was the first oil change I did with the civic and that I only had it for less than 2 weeks. So, yes, it was screwy for you to flame on me for saying that 5w-30 will save me MPG compaired to 5w-20, especially since I never said that I replaced 5w-20. To be honest with you, I have no idea what the oil was that I replaced. I just said that I used 5w-30 to replace the OLD oil and I should get better MPG ONLY because I CHANGED THE OIL.
Yes, 5w-20 does give you better mpg than 5w-30. Enough to notice without controlled testing? I doubt it.
Dude I wasn't flaming you.... If I where to flame you my post would have been much longer, I have found many people on this site switch to heavier oil because they think it will give them high performance and better MPG.
I also read your post, you don't know how old the oil is in your car, for all you know they could have changed it right before you bought it, if you bought it from a dealer, they probably did exactly that.
controlled testing is not needed, it has a larger effect than you think, I noticed a 2MPG drop every time I put 5w30 in it, I did this 3 times and every time yielded a 2 MPG drop.
Let me ask you this though, why do you call me ignorant? I simply commented that using a heavier oil will not increase your gas mileage, you agreed, does that make you ignorant too? I even agreed that cleaner oil will help MPG, then you call me ignorant, why? I never called you any names, simply stated that heavier oil is not as good for MPG as light oil. Why do insist on flaming me and starting war of something that we both agree on?
By the way, I'm about to finish a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Akron, I sure I know far more about fluid flow dynamic than you, I’ve take 3 classes devoted to it. If you really insist I can find the viscosities of each oil and calculate the friction factor, then find the total power loss of each oil, but this would take me a few hours to prove what I already know, so I really don't see a point in doing this.
Dude I wasn't flaming you.... If I where to flame you my post would have been much longer, I have found many people on this site switch to heavier oil because they think it will give them high performance and better MPG.
I also read your post, you don't know how old the oil is in your car, for all you know they could have changed it right before you bought it, if you bought it from a dealer, they probably did exactly that.
controlled testing is not needed, it has a larger effect than you think, I noticed a 2MPG drop every time I put 5w30 in it, I did this 3 times and every time yielded a 2 MPG drop.
Let me ask you this though, why do you call me ignorant? I simply commented that using a heavier oil will not increase your gas mileage, you agreed, does that make you ignorant too? I even agreed that cleaner oil will help MPG, then you call me ignorant, why? I never called you any names, simply stated that heavier oil is not as good for MPG as light oil. Why do insist on flaming me and starting war of something that we both agree on?
Beacause all I said was I changed OLD oil out and you went into the 5w-20. It was pretty ingnorant to ASSUME that I was thinking that I would get better mpg than 5w-20.
what vehicle is it? 01 civic coupe ex 5 sp EDIT:64k miles on it
-what grade gasoline? 87
-how are your driving habits? normal most of the time except when needed. highway to work 20 miles one way cruising at 80. city cruise at 50-60
-what are your mods -stock with iridium plugs
-what grade motor oil was used when this record of mileage was counted? 5-20
-tips/advice on how to save gas or anything else that is neccesary!
check tire pressure, oil, don't run air that much, cruise control helps. 40mpg in the city and 42+ on the highway
By the way, I'm about to finish a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Akron, I sure I know far more about fluid flow dynamic than you, I’ve take 3 classes devoted to it. If you really insist I can find the viscosities of each oil and calculate the friction factor, then find the total power loss of each oil, but this would take me a few hours to prove what I already know, so I really don't see a point in doing this.
I love it when people believe they are top dog at something just because they know more than the average person.
maybe you should go study your enthalpy/reduced pressure curves. Can you tell me what Qout=mh+m2h2-(m1+m2)h3 means?
How many thermodynamics classes have you taken? is that not what we really are talking about here?
