The 01 SS is getting about 23 per gallon, the GMC is getting about 8 per gallon, The 86 SS is sitting quietly waiting to come home and tear up the town!

$4.09 for regular and $4.35 for premium here

i fell yuk then lol.. mid 20's ..lol.. cry cry cry.. but i guess if gonna drive v8 gotta take the bad with the good...
damn what GMC u got lol

well when i had a 07 ss i average 18/19 with heavy foot.. so seeing 13/14 without heavy foot just driving less than 5 miles to work makes me cringe.. hopefully after we get away from the "winter gas" it will go up to "my" normal 18/19.. the whole DoD thing blows.. when are u ever on a straight lvl highway where u can drop to 4 cylinders for longer than 1 minute???i would rather have the 4 cylinders working at stop and go's than all 8.. at red light why use all 8 unless i hit button so i can get off line fast... heck fist summer i had my 07 few weeks later was going to cape cod and we got stuck in im serious lie 4 hr traffic jam on the highway down there due to a accident "somewhere" im like crawling at 5 mph showing 0 miles per gallon and my gas gauge just keeps dropping lol i was worried ill be stuck there even longer lol... besides who is really gonna go on a highway with a v8 and drive granny style anyways? so whats point of DoD when only time its gonna kick in is while ur doing 70 mphor faster and at that speed ur using all 8.. they shoulda had it switched around 4 to 8 not 8 to 4

true good point about the weight issue...
i thought the trailblazer had the same 5.3 as the montes, grand prix's and the buicks.. i did read somewhere that the trailblazer was also like a tenth or so quicker too than the monte was/is ..
soo basically have a DoD engine on a car that noone will actually drive on a highway.. it does handle so tight to the highways at high speeds and so comfy but again when im on highway and knowing no cops around im gonna open her up so again they should be a DoD on a family Van or something lol..i laugh any time i see a vette doing the speed limit on the highway im like dude ur a vette whats wrong with u lol.. i nod my head when i see a vette scream on by im like yea thats someone driving the car it was meant to be.. lol
so basically putting a DoD on a sports car just doesnt make sense its like a tease.. u want the better gas mileage but come on are u really gonna drive the speed limit with her ..

they have unmarked vettes?? nooooooooooooooo
i did know about the DoD with the cadi and heard storys how never worked well with cadi lol.. so its all about emissions huh lol nice.. anyway to trick the government..
i thought it was the 5.3 that was tenth or so faster musta read it wrong then .. what yr did the 6.0 come out? i remeber back in 07 talking and heard someone say about the trailblazer was faster.. not the 5.3 then?.. either way still bad ass suv..shame they stop making that too lol

oh that sucks they just look so bad ass when u see them with that huge muffler

4.09 regular and premium is up from 4.29 to 4.33 now just shy few pennys of buying diesel in the liverpool(morgan rd and buckley rd)/onondaga/central ny area..thanks god wasnt complety dry fist tank since owning car in march i paid 68 for a tank then couple weeks later paid 70 when gas when up to 4.29(premiun) now just spent 66 luckly she was saying i had around 60 miles left in tank other wise since computer saying im now getting up from 13/14 now im at 15mpg so thats 3 gallons i musta had in tank or 4.33 times 3 is like 13 dollars so 66 and 13 i woulda been up to now 79 dollars for a full tank the 70 dollar tank was 2 gallons or so lfet in tank before fill up so guessing mid 78ish for full tank so that extra 4 cents now costing me a good dollar at least on top of the already way to expensive gas.. i remeber back in 07 when i filled my 07 ss up first time i paid 3.56 for premium i think that was like 56 bucks now im needing just shy of 80 bucks for full tank ouchhhh... that was like when pickups had duel tanks lol... and i knew back in 07 it was in july so im hopeing when we get summer gas my 13-15 mpg will get me back to what im "ok" with 18/19 lol but again that was using highway back home after work and hitting 125-130.. this itme im like only down road less than 5 miles on roads from 35-45miles per hr..but oh wait my DoD wont help since im not crusing on cruise control on highway so i guess im stuck all 8 cylinders even when im trying to obey speed limits lol... soo with that said are we gonna drive at a comfy pase at watkins glenn so maybe i can use just half my engine lol.. i have filling gonna need to fill up before and then right after lol.. how many labs can nascar get 50 or so?... the 80's onte gotta get crappy gas dont they even thou same time that was when the whole gas mileage issue arised whats it? what do the 80s guys get for mpg?.. how are the 70's montes getting?

hey now the 4th gen is that the one ur burning away all the gas in ur picture?..lol...i can see why u get 7 mpg.. why ur avalanche getting so low?
my computer saying im in the upper 16's low 17's now in gas so eaither getting better gas from station or just took month with new driver to get the computer adjusted.... was in 17's til i had to show a mazda MR-8 that u can do all ur blown speaker boom boom u want next to me but when it comes to the real issue of whos cars is better.. get american muscle as vin diesel would say .. u can have all ur nitris u want u will never beat a american muscle..(well at least wont beat his .. maybe the rest of our american cars but not his lol)( nothng better than seeing him jump off line with his nose in air for half the race lol)

probally why didnt sell for few yrs til they inproved that as well as the cheap plastic moldings on the side that never looked good with any color...

yea see now premium gas back down to 4.27 when i just paid 4.33 three days ago.. grr thats roughly solid dollar of savings lol like when ur tossing in 70 dollars into a tank whats another dollar..

i was wrong about the 4.22 the 4.22 was at another sunoco just up the road compared to the one i normally go to next to my home at 4.27 which still as of today 4.27.. but still last friday filled up at 4.33 for premium now 4.27 and regular i think is 4.09
even thou the new camaro v6 has 300 hp and i got 303 i would still take my v8 over the v6 300hp just would like their gas mileage thou lol

just something about having a v8 to show ur pals and others.. cant really brag u got a v6.. not putting the v6's down thou.. shoulda had a v8 back in the monte when they redesigned it in 2000

-- Edited by hope4anarchy99 on Thursday 19th of April 2012 09:12:56 PM

twomanymontes wrote:

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Gas has gone up over the last few days here!

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 Same here!

i would like the supercharger from the 00-05 to toss on my v8 thou..
well now the gas station that had said 4.22 for premium yesterday up to 4.27.. i guess they figured heck the other sunoco right down the road sells it we might as well too at same price....
just glad dont need gas yet but after sunday at the glenn lol who knows

u guys meaning the v6 in the camaro?.. i just didnt much like interrior of the camaro all cheap plastic looking and feel to it.. and even the hood intake on the ss is fake when i looked under the hood.... i even think if recaall right everything i looked at in camaro didnt feel good.. just felt like a cheap rushed car.. my hood feels more solid and has nice "holding rod thingys to keep hood prop'd up comapred to camaro, the door felt light and weak comapred to a solid 50 foot monte door.. and on and on just felt it was rushed while taking over 3 yrs to bring out lol.. i still want one thou in 5 yrs when im 40 but i hpe by then they put nicer interrrior in it.. i love mine i even comapred it one day with my 07 at wegmans in liverpool(syracuse area) i was parked next to a mustang gt of same yr and with his being convertible was only think i wished other than that the mustang then was so chezzy inside the dash the radio the dials ect compared to mine.. love mine just shame just when they almost had it right wham gone.... give me t tops ver my sunroof and give me real wheel drive and a stick

not stock thou.. he musta had a very nice set up for a v6 since my v8 is like high 13's to low 14's ive read.. gonna try myself at the strip near here (http://www.estadrags.com/) but will 40k on these tires i dont get much traction as is doubt have good numbers on a strip.. heck got all slidy on wet road today when turning onto a highway trying to take on a charger (he had inside turning lane i had outside turning lane).. i shoulda recalled the top gear show when they had a mercedes and a ferrari on a strip while wet they took so many tries before deciding to leave traction control on..

lol that is for damn sure.. heck didnt get the car for gas mileage but i got worried cause when i had my 07 i never droved it in the winter time so i guess never noticed winter gas mileage then got this used 06 and i was concerned it was something else until i found out about winter gas.. but also back in 07 premium was 3.56 when i filled her up in summer 07 when i got her.. (the 07 monte).. now its anywhere from 4.20 and up past 4.30 .. another 10 to 20 dollars on each fill up kinda sucks.. luckly my job now is right down the road compared to yrs past.... i like joking about i coulda traded her in for clunkers for cash from obama lol..

as well as yea v8's not good for gas but unless u do highway driving seems DoD isnt really helpful lol

-- Edited by hope4anarchy99 on Sunday 22nd of April 2012 07:34:43 PM

true that but was wondering before why i was getting 14ish til i leanred about winter gas... with my "normal driving" i get 18ish granted 4 miles but that adds up

what i found is that the cold f-ed with the trans more then anything else. my 04 when it was cold it took a long time for the converter to lock going in to OD.

she did get low 20's thou on the thruway on sunday.. lol after 20 miles of wondering why getting low teens and staring at the instant gas mileage and even taking foot of gas didnt help numbers til after staring for some time i see a little square box around 3..lol dont know why i wasnt in drive/overdrive.. that woulda sucked all my gas by time i got to the exit lol.... but yea DoD is nice on flatttt smooth highway but besides thruway not much is flat in new york lol.. be nice to have a switch to hit if sitting at trafic light or traffic jam on highway like i was in summer of 07 (with my 07 just got weeks prior to trip) going to cape cod stuck on highway for 3 to 4 hrs going like 1 or 2 mph and seeing my gas gauge just drop lol..

It's still $4.07 around here, But I'm sure it will be making a jump again in a week or two.

I have 04 3.8 V-6 Supercharged Intimidator SS. Wife and I went on a 175 mile round trip to the Jersey shore, and we got 30+ MPG according to the onboard computer. I use nothing but HI test gasoline.

I would ignore the computer and figure mileage the old fashion way. Some are close, others are way off.

My 04SS with the 3800SC would regularly see high 20's on the hwy. Before modding, I did get 30, but after all as done, 26-28 was the norm on the open road. (as long as you kept it out of positive boost)

well it depends what car, how i'm driving etc.

when i had my 04 SCMCSS on the highway (75-80 mph) she'd get 28-31.5 mpg.

which was kinda weird that it was almost better then my 1.8t GTI.

superchargers and turbos force more air into the engine which in turn requires more fuel. At normal driving, there isnt much of a difference in MPG, the big drop comes when you get into positive boost and the PCM adjusts the fuel to compensate. Same way a non SC or turbo motor requires more fuel when toy punch it, just at a much grander scale.

80's Montes were a victim of the gas crunch. They throttled back power on everything because it was the only way they knew of cheaply raising MPG. Todays motors / electronics are far more advanced. Thats why you can get 30mpg out of a 430hp LS motor. If you put an EFI system on a 80's Monte, your power and MPG will increase.

Cant speak for the DoD. I have MDS on the HEMI and have it electronically disabled. I have seen less than a 1 MPG difference and after seeing how it actually works, I have to figure less stress on the top end with it disabled.

There are 2 ways of disabling it (at least on the HEMI, have to figure its roughly the same on the LS).... Electronically with a tune (which is how I did mine), or mechanically by swapping the DoD internal parts with non DoD parts. Usually consists of lifters, rockers and possibly springs & valves plus a tune. Mechanically shouldnt be needed unless you are pushing a God awful amount of HP, talking 500+

-- Edited by PitchBlackSS on Monday 1st of July 2013 10:46:34 AM

-- Edited by PitchBlackSS on Monday 1st of July 2013 10:47:45 AM

Some of the EFI systems fit right in place of a carb and really dont look bad. With the right air cleaner, you would never know.

I didnt disable the DoD for dependability, did it because it was annoying after being modded. It really sounded like crap with the exhaust and the delay was very noticeable.

I dont build for dependability.