That is true. You will not feel any increase with only a filter. The sound on the other hand and whistle of your turbo do increase dramtically. So far though 154,000 miles and no issues yet ( knocking on wood).

 

what kind of filter do u have? U cant beat that increased turbo sound! that whistle makes me want to by a diesel just to hear that!

 

It is a sweet sound. I have a the airraid cold air intake with the pre filter wrap. I love the sound , escpecially when I have the chip set to performance. Whistle while you work!

 

I live out in BFE. My commute to work every day (~18 miles one way) is mild stop-and-go with back roads and a bit of highway. Then on weekends I frequently make trips that involve a good 500-600 miles of round trip driving. I tell myself that I just set the cruise at 70 and go, but if it's like last night (when I left late and wanted to get home at a semi-reasonable hour) I've been known to bump the cruise to 85 instead of 70.

What it comes down to is, on a tank, I usually end up getting something in the 12.5 range. If I fill up my tank, get on the highway and set the cruise at 70 and then stop and refill just before getting to my destination, I can squeak about 14 out of it, but when I refill my tank the lie-o-meter tells me something between 12 and 13, and that's what my hand calculations come out to, as well. It averages out to around 12.5.

 

then can some one help me to figure out why my miles are so low. please thanks

 

My has been getting 8.3 for the last year. It just recently dropped to 8.2 also.

So in my opinion, yes, this is average city mileage. A lot of people here will disagree with me.

 

We need more specs of ur truck. What sizes tires are u running?

 

i've been running on 8.2 for like 6 months now...i think the problem is in big cities there is no chance to keep the throttle and pace steady too much traffic everywhere you go. i live in los angeles and i don't use the hwy at all my mpg's get worse than on streets, only in long trips it's very good.

 

My 2000 EX V10 has 116,000 miles, stock condition. I get 12-13 city driving and 14.5 - 15 mpg highway at 75 mph. Hand calculated and lie-o-meter are the same. If your running oversize tires your odometer will be recording fewer miles than actual and you'll be using more gas to push them, both not in your favor for better mpg. The other thing I've noticed is that you burn almost as much gas idling as you do driving 35 mph. That's the nature of a V10. I think driving style has the most do with it. My wife typically gets 11 mpg when she drives the EX while I'll get 13 mpg. She tends to hammer the accellerator on greens while I'll idle out of them and I try to keep the rpm's below 2000.

 

I get 12.5 - 13.5 on the highway and 9 - 11 in the city. I have a v10 with 4:30 gears running stock tires.

 

FIRST thing to remember about gasoline mileage, especially on heavier vehicles with large displacement engines like our EX's, (AND assuming everything is "right" is driving style of the operator. As one guy so accurately pointed out in a "post" earlier ( showing a picture of a thumb-tack on the gas pedal as the best way to get maximum mileage..!) the lighter the foot, the better the gas mileage.

I am a crochety old guy who wants to make SURE, in traffic, that I dont accellerate too fast to miss out on the cute girls with mini-dresses walking on the sidewalk ( you dont want to miss that gust of wind, now...do you..?). So in traffic unloaded I can see 10 mpg). Open road, 65-70 mph I can see 14 mpg.

Pulling our 28 ft. Bayliner and its trailer on long trips at variable speeds because with a 3.73 gear set your speeds vary at the slightest hill...(hell..even at a thick tar-strip...!) (combined trailer & boat weight around 11,000 lbs) we average 8.5 mpg. That isn't bad considering the same load on our 2500 series GMC Suburban with a "mouse" ( 350 engine) got only 5 mpg under the same driving conditions, and our GMC "6500" deisel (with a Cat. 3126 "B" engine, 3.73 gear set, and SPicer 7 speed transmission) got THE SAME 8.5 MPG. (sure as hell didnt slow down as much on grades, tho...!).

As a side note, my '05 V-10 was bought at 14,000 mi - ( still looks and smells brand spanking new ) and the above AVERAGES are correct - meaning, I got them by actually measuring the actual amount of gasoline div. by mileage.

AND, as noted earlier, that coincides with the overhead computer exactly.

AND, as noted earlier - sure, you get all kinds of momentary whacky figures from the overhead computer, which coincide with the whacky changes in gas mileage depends on where your foot is. Backing off going down-hill, I have seen 40 mpg. A moment later, pulling another grade,,,down to 5 mpg....!

 

I've been recently told with the new diesel having more sulfur in it it makes your mileage drop. Anyopne else heard of this?

 

Thanks guys. I know the tires are not stock so I have to find out how tall they are. by the way how do I figure that out?

 

You can use an online calculator at 4wheelonline.com or just measure them with a tape measure. Do you know the size off hand?

 

hello my tires are bf goodrich lt285/75/r16 all terrain