how many MPG do you get with basic 3ac?

xirdneh · Post by **xirdneh** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:49 pm

How many MPG are these basic 3ac driven 4x4 wagons supposed to get? I've read posts stating anywhere from twenty-one to forty-two MPG. My experience with five of them has been around 28-30 MPG in city/suburb and around 31-34 MPG highway. One of them ran 24-26 city/suburb and 27-29 highway for a while after rebuilding it but a new cam and vacuum advance brought it up to par.
what do you get?

brianp · Post by **brianp** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:54 pm

Currently, I'm averaging 33.6 MPG, mostly 2 lane highway driving around 60 mph. It's gone up a little after doing different repairs on my car. I'm pretty satisfied, I might try de-carboning the engine sometime and see if that helps.

Carguylen · Post by **Carguylen** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:20 pm

I made a BIG mistake and got an automatic. It's a good car, but it only gets 22-24 MPG. I have an 85 Tercel 2 door that I use as my daily driver/paint truck, and it gets about 31 with the 4 speed manual.

dcn · Post by **dcn** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:30 pm

I get 31-33, mix of city/highway. Mostly city though, so I'm happy. It was up around 38 or so, but I had to put a replacement part in the engine that seems to have affected it. Got a bunch more I have to trial and error to see which is best. Manual trans, and my car is very well tuned I'd say, thanks for my Dad (and me passing him tools/trying to learn

), not only do I very rarely downshift for hwy hills, I sometimes don't even need full throttle in places I used to.

3A-C Power · Post by **3A-C Power** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:29 am

I get (got) 34 mpg average split highway/city with traffic jams included. With a canoe and a full load it went down to 31.

Ogedei · Post by **Ogedei** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:59 pm

I am getting around 26 but I drive in mountainous country and find that I am having to step on it alot to get to speed. Might have a vacuum leak as I hear a sucking sound under the hood, hopefully that will increase my MPG.