What's your best "calculated" range?

"EL_ULY" (uly)
04/12/2016 at 10:50 • Filed to: Mpgs and shit

I know El Moose could maybe do 400 miles under super extra good conditions... but not 495 lol hellz no. How bout your DD?

DISCUSSION (100)

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 10:53

After driving on the highway for a while, then filling up, my E39 said 740 kms to empty. I usually get around 600 on a tank.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 10:53

My car doesn't have a computer so.... my best guess is like 250

TheHondaBro > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 10:56

My car doesn’t give me a range. Check your privilege.

Slant6 > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 10:56

Ranger doesn’t have a computer but the E34 could aledgedly go for 580 miles on a tank.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 10:58

My car doesn’t have a computer, but an estimated 700-800 km, around 440-500 miles, depending on the kind of use. That is on a 40 liter tank mind you.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:02

The best I’ve seen after a fill up in our car was about 530 miles, we usually end up getting about 460 out of a full tank though.

shop-teacher > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:03

Well, I don’t have one of those fancy shmacy computer thingies. Typically I can count on about 350 miles from the 25 gallon tank in my truck, but if I do more highway miles 400-450 happens. That one time I actually got the EPA rated 21 mpg on the highway, I got over 500 miles! That was a pretty good day.

philipilihp > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:03

That is impressive! I have an E90 335 so it’s around 300. Do I ever reach that? Nah. More like 250.

Dru > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:05

under normal conditions, if it were full and I ran it until the last drop I could go 260 miles or so. If I were doing highway driving, it wouldn't be impossible to get to 400 miles, again running to pretty much the end of the tank.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:05

My maximum range is about 350 miles. 15 gallon tank is not range friendly.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:05

Best I’ve ever done is 700km(437 miles) on a 60L(16 us gal) tank. 27.5mpg average in a 2013 Ford Fusion 1.6L ecoboost.

PorkchoPlissken > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:10

...about 280

Azrek > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:13

My E92 will usually tell me around 410, but I end up closer to 289 or less...depending on if I am cranky or I find wide open roads.

'Wägen, EPA LOL > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:15

I have seen this exact same image in our s60. I always really want it to break 500 at some point. i think I saw 515 once for a brief, but it may have been a hallucination...

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:17

Kinja'd!!!

Alex Zapata > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:17

I think the ML when full says about 800 kms? But I tend to try and not look at fuel economy on that car, for my sanity’s sake, I fill it at half tank or 1/4 tank and generally it does do around 400 km on half a tank.

The Z I HAVE to look at the range since it runs out of gas so fast, the most I’ve seen I think was 360, though generally it’s around 280 when I fill it up.

EL_ULY > TheHondaBro
04/12/2016 at 11:21

math, yo!

EL_ULY > Alex Zapata
04/12/2016 at 11:23

800km is rad! wowzers

EL_ULY > shop-teacher
04/12/2016 at 11:24

dayum! That was a good day. That is good range

EL_ULY > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
04/12/2016 at 11:24

woooooooow!!!!!!

EL_ULY > 'Wägen, EPA LOL
04/12/2016 at 11:24

lol I kinda figured it had a glitch where it won’t go any higher :]

EL_ULY > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
04/12/2016 at 11:25

that is very good range. You can cover a lot of land sir!

EL_ULY > Azrek
04/12/2016 at 11:25

289 hella fun miles doe!

EL_ULY > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
04/12/2016 at 11:26

460 is way rad still thought

EL_ULY > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
04/12/2016 at 11:26

530i?

EL_ULY > Luc - The Acadian Oppo
04/12/2016 at 11:26

that is very very good! Viva la EcoBoost!

EL_ULY > philipilihp
04/12/2016 at 11:28

what size tank is in those 335i? My Zapatito has I think a 13 gal. It uses it up super quick too.

EL_ULY > Slant6
04/12/2016 at 11:29

e34 FTW! My 525i had a huge tank and i said something high like that I remember.

EL_ULY > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
04/12/2016 at 11:30

15 is indeed rather small

EL_ULY > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
04/12/2016 at 11:30

while driving efficient?

EL_ULY > PorkchoPlissken
04/12/2016 at 11:30

that’s good for at least a 3 hour road trip I think

Azrek > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:30

Well, it depends...Maryland can go from nice open roads to traffic jams for hours. It can take me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and a half to get to work. An hour an 40 minutes is my record to make the 18 mile drive.

EL_ULY > Dru
04/12/2016 at 11:31

That’s good for at least a 4 hour highway drive. Not too bad

Nibbles > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:32

S40 always says 335 miles

It’s about right too. We’re seeing around 21 MPG. If only I could stay off the BOOOOOOOOOOOOOST...

tpw_rules > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:33

My car will display 500MPG.

Downhill on a highway just after resetting it. It’s fairly accurate with the calculated range, disappointingly.

philipilihp > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:33

16 gallons in my E90. I get around 20 (probably less) mpg, but lots of smiles! :D Noise is great!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:33

Yep. I only get 17. And the tank is small. And I hardly touch the throttle. On highways, I’m the guy who is in the right doing a solid 5 under.

EL_ULY > Azrek
04/12/2016 at 11:33

oh dayum! My record is 22 miles in 1 hour 30 min.

jariten1781 > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:34

Dun know on the DD...I fill up at a 1/4 tank usually putting 10ish gals in which is right around 300 miles (+- 30 miles). I suppose that means I’d go around 400-440 on a good day if I wanted to run it dry. My 88 Chevy had a 50 gallon aux tank...never attempted to run it dry but it could probably have gone over 1000 if I were unloaded doing solely interstate driving. Grandpa had a 100 gallon aux tank in one of the farm trucks and regularly went 1000-2000 miles between fills.

EL_ULY > Nibbles
04/12/2016 at 11:34

difficult to stay off booooooost doe!

EL_ULY > tpw_rules
04/12/2016 at 11:35

lol I like making it do that :]

EL_ULY > philipilihp
04/12/2016 at 11:36

any mods? I have an eBay CAI on the Zapatito and have one on order for the Moose

EL_ULY > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
04/12/2016 at 11:36

oh wow

philipilihp > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:37

No not yet, unless plastidipped kidneys count! LOL

But I should do something small though. Do you notice a difference with the CAI on zapatito?

Nibbles > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:37

Hell yea! I’ve convinced the wife to let me install a boost gauge. I told her it’s so we could keep an eye on pressures for better fuel economy. Really it’s because I like seeing gauge needles going all over the place. Going with the IPD R-Styled gauge to match the factories :)

Now to figure out where the hell to install the damned thing.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:40

The 5VZ is not renown for it’s efficiency. Reliability, yes. Speed.... Also a no.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:40

Yes. It’s not as fuel efficient as other owners have led me to believe, but it’s really not that bad.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:41

The M3 always says the crusing range is 325 miles, but I know I’ve done nearly 400 on a tank before.

Azrek > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:42

Ouch...but when I get an open road it is great fun. However, that doesn’t happen too often. My car is fast and agile, so I can get through all this shit.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:42

On longer road trips in the early or late summer, when I’m not cranking the A/C, I can get my Chrysler T&C over 30 mpg. With the 20 gallon tank It reports out 585 on the DTE. I hit 31 mpg one trip and saw a DTE over 600, but that was me travelling alone with no DVD player drawing off of the alternator, etc.

EL_ULY > jariten1781
04/12/2016 at 11:43

dayum!!!! Those aux tanks are so radness. I told my dad to get one on his 7.3 but he never did

Alex Zapata > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:43

800 kms is unrealistic LOL, though it is a nice sight to see it flashing on the computer.

I would at least expect that from a 90+ liter gas tank.

I sincerely don’t know how people with 500 and 63 AMGs get anywhere without stopping at every gas station.

HammerheadFistpunch > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:46

I’ve seen a 650+ estimate once. and its usually over 600 in the nox box. My land Cruiser knows better than to tell me the odds.

HammerheadFistpunch > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:50

I remember that our old suburban was bad on gas, but it had a 42 gallon tank so even getting 15 highway, it still went 630 miles between fillups. I wish my cruiser had the 11.5 gallon factory auxulry tank. My uncle has a 40 gallon aux tank in his (in addition to 25.4) for 65.4 gallons...but his supercharger and add on gear still brings his range way down due to 10-11 mpg. still, 650 miles plus! Im lucky to get 300 miles.

jariten1781 > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 11:51

Yeah, I never thought about gas when I was a kid because the tanker would come out to the farm every so often and top off the big storage tank as well as any of the pickups aux tanks if we remembered to park them out there on delivery day. Infinite range and Grandpa paid for it in the delivery bills. Was shell shocked when I got a license and could actually legally drive (all the kids drove starting at 10-14 on the farm, shit had to get done) and he eventually told me to stop being a leach and filling up out of his storage tank haha.

EL_ULY > PotbellyJoe and 42 others
04/12/2016 at 11:57

Oh dang that is higher than I though for a T&C.

EL_ULY > Azrek
04/12/2016 at 11:58

tru tru

EL_ULY > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
04/12/2016 at 11:58

Oh dang! That’s more than I ever got in mine and it was a 3.0l

EL_ULY > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
04/12/2016 at 11:59

Those driver good and as far as efficiency, it’s right in the middle :]

EL_ULY > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
04/12/2016 at 11:59

I dig em :]

EL_ULY > Nibbles
04/12/2016 at 12:00

I have no clue. I suck so much when it come to the world of performance upgrades. I could do eBay intakes, not too much more past that lol

EL_ULY > philipilihp
04/12/2016 at 12:02

Noticeable MPG gain actually but more than anything, insanely louder induction noise, especially at full VANOS. Sounds like a high revving V8 past 5000rpm

Nibbles > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:03

The big problem is that the dashboard is so efficient. There’s seriously no place to install a gauge that wouldn’t look like a tumor or reduce some other functionality.

Brian Silvestro > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:03

There was one point on this trip where we got the fiesta down to 216 miles estimated on a full tank.

That’s how much we were just sitting at like 5-6k rpm for hours on end.

-this space for rent- > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:07

The trip computer on my 85 300zx could easily be fooled coasting down a mountain. Could peg it at 999 easily.

Realistic range was probably about 425miles highway before fuel light came on. 19 gallon tank ftw.

EL_ULY > jariten1781
04/12/2016 at 12:10

epic! Grandpa sounds like that classic badass person. We need for people like that nowadays

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:10

That little “eco” button is worth about 2 mpg, with the right tires and not driving over 70 mph, you can get really decent mpg.

My Vibe GT gets around 32 highway and when we bought the van our fear was that at 25 mpg (and $3 gas) longer trips would need to be done in the smaller car still, but the gap is within 10%, so the comfort level more than justifies it. If we need more storage and put the roof box on the little car, it drops to 25 mpg, though, so many times the 10% is already accounted for in utility.

EL_ULY > HammerheadFistpunch
04/12/2016 at 12:12

TRD superchager on his LC?

Lol yeah we had a Suburban aka “Se Burlan” back in the day and I remember it took forever to fill up. It was a 91 with an ice chest center console

EL_ULY > Alex Zapata
04/12/2016 at 12:13

Especially if it had any mods. I’d be too tempted to hear the engine roar like every 3 seconds lol :]

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:14

I think it’s because I only drive for about 10 minutes at a time twice a day. So the engine doesn’t get warmed up.

HammerheadFistpunch > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:15

Yeah, the TRD supercharger, his is a heavy rig though so its kind of a wash until he gets to altitude...where he pulls away from my lighter, regeared 80. Our burb was also supercharger, it was the vortec 454 so those 42 gallons? premium fuel. Ooof.

EL_ULY > PotbellyJoe and 42 others
04/12/2016 at 12:15

That’s true. I had a cargo box on my A6 avant and that use to just ruin the economy. Those ECO buttons are real! I had a 2013 Kio Rio sedan rental from ATL to Columbia SC. That Eco button made it pretty slow but hot dayum it made a difference in economy

EL_ULY > Brian Silvestro
04/12/2016 at 12:16

Smiles per gallon, yo!

EL_ULY > Nibbles
04/12/2016 at 12:16

On S40, that is true, are there any GIS with them installed that you like?

EL_ULY > -this space for rent-
04/12/2016 at 12:18

425 is very good for that tank size

EL_ULY > HammerheadFistpunch
04/12/2016 at 12:19

Oh sweet thirsty Suburban. Incrediburuuuu

EL_ULY > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
04/12/2016 at 12:20

that’s tru. I-6 takes longer to warm up also

Opposite Locksmith > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:22

20 miles because wrx

shop-teacher > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:25

Well, it’s only happened once in the 10 years I’ve owned the truck, but I was downright excited to calculate my gas mileage that day (dork!)

I was driving around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which is a lot bigger than it looks on the map. Because it’s so sparsely populated, the roads are almost all two lane blacktop (with nary a pothole in sight!). I was also on vacation in no hurry, so I spent the entire day cruising at 55-60 mph, so that’s what it takes to achieve my EPA rating. Probably won’t happen again!

EL_ULY > Opposite Locksmith
04/12/2016 at 12:27

braaaaaaap!!!!!!

jariten1781 > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:30

Yeah, he was an archetypal family farmer. Getting work done was his own reward and he didn’t give a shit how long it took or who he had to drag with him to make shit happen. I didn’t appreciate a lot of what I learned from him till way after he’d passed.

One of my favorite lessons was when I was ~12ish and we were in the truck headed out to a field for something or other and he noticed a fence down. He goes “Damnit, how the fuck is that fence down? Did you know about this, is someone coming to fix it?”. I responded “That’s Buddy’s (my cousin) fault, he hit it with the combine yesterday...I guess he’ll fix it”. He just looked at me and goes: “You will never ever again tell me that anything is someone else’s fault . You knew it was broken and you neither fixed it nor got someone else to fix it and made sure it was done properly. That makes it your fault. Get out and fix it now.” I tried to protest that I didn’t have any tools or lumber or nothing but he just drove off leaving me to hoof it 5 miles back to the house and carry all the supplies back out just carrying them on my back. Oh, and after I got back after dark dinner was cold and I was informed I’d been assigned to clean out the horse stalls before he got out to do his morning rounds which started at like 4am. No sleep that night haha. He abided no excuses.

EL_ULY > shop-teacher
04/12/2016 at 12:31

them perfect conditions. i’ve never been on that end of the Murica. I just kind of picture lots of land, trees, and either overcast or a very cloudy day for some reason

shop-teacher > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:32

It was a beautiful sunny day, but yeah lots of lands and lots of trees. It’s quite pretty up there, and the people are super nice.

Stapleface > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:32

Highest I've ever seen in my Civic is 555. I usually will average around 410-430 in my usual driving.

EL_ULY > shop-teacher
04/12/2016 at 12:33

random burger joints?

EL_ULY > Stapleface
04/12/2016 at 12:33

Legendary Civics are legendary. 555 is incrediburuuu!

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:46

In theory, 28mpg highway X 24 gallon tank = 672 mile range.

EL_ULY > jariten1781
04/12/2016 at 12:49

The only way to know that particular lesson is the hard way. “Get shit done and cover ass” was what my dad taught me when I worked for his commercial A/C company

Nibbles > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 12:57

This one is beautifully done

Kinja'd!!!

But it was very labor intensive and I’m pretty sure that the gauge is still blocking some warning lights and such. I don’t know if I have the fab chops to make that kind of setup :(

http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthread.php…

philipilihp > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 13:00

In that case: gotta do it!!

EL_ULY > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
04/12/2016 at 13:06

Theories, how do they work?

EL_ULY > Nibbles
04/12/2016 at 13:07

looks good doe. But yeah you’ll have to maybe pull the DIM out for that

Nibbles > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 13:09

If only I could write something that was output into the information center...

EL_ULY > philipilihp
04/12/2016 at 13:09

AFE makes a chingon one for yours

Kinja'd!!!

EL_ULY > Nibbles
04/12/2016 at 13:16

too much science for me :]

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 13:22

Best calculated I’ve seen in my Mazda is 575. Best I’ve actually gotten was 630.

EL_ULY > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully
04/12/2016 at 13:29

I think that may be an OPPO record!

Kent > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 13:31

My 2004 Saab 9-5 always says about 425 miles of range but I am lucky to get more than 325 in city driving. The Saab information display is always optimistic.

I used to have a 2004 Volvo v70, and like in your picture, mine would say 495 miles to empty tank after I filled it up every single time. I could maybe squeeze out just over 400 if I really tried.

EL_ULY > Kent
04/12/2016 at 13:35

Both very true statements.

philipilihp > EL_ULY
04/12/2016 at 13:41

Awesome! I’m going to go look.