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Welcome back to the grind!

Most things just didn't seem to be going my way this morning. I forgot to reset the timer clock on my block heater so the car cold soaked for 50min before I left. :rolleyes: 85F instead of 125F is a big difference. :( It also appears that a bunch of people decided they could leave earlier so I got stopped at way more lights this morning than normal. :p

Oh well.

34F (28F windchill), 7mph tail/crosswind from the WNW, clear:


92.8mpg for 22.8mi (Home to work)

The tank is down to 98.2mpg over 265.3mi with 17 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

The weekend's driving was good-bad-good-bad, as in 75-50-72-55 mpgs. The tank dropped from 70.7 to 70.2 as of last night.

This morning was better. 75.5 mpg to work at 53 degrees. I added back 2 tenths to the tank average, at 415 miles and 3/4 on the fuel gauge.

65.1 mpg over 9.7 miles into work this morning. Temp 47F.

Not as cold as your mornin' Sean but still enough to bite a chunk out of the FE. :p My morning warming ups will be drastically shortened starting Wed. The EBH is on the truck for delivery today! :woot: Install set for Tues evening with a friend.

I'd love to see you hold onto that 70+ tank Andrew but my competitive side is routing the opposite. ;) Good job adding those tenths!

I couldn't pass up this opportunity. It was sunny and 70 degrees out, so I went home for lunch. It was worth it. ;)

73.5 mpg / 10.7 miles home.
98.4 mpg / 10.7 miles back to work.
The tank is up to 70.9 / 437 miles now. :D

Over the weekend I insulated the underside of my hood. The car is definitely warming up faster and holding temperature longer while parked. It'll be very hard to measure it, though, with so many variables at play. Stephen, is your hood insulated already? Also, I felt some heat rising through the side gaps on the hood, so I might be adding some weatherstripping in there.

Stephen, it all hurts as far as I'm concerned!! You're going to like that EBH. ;)

Go Andrew!!! :D:thumbs_up: :flag:

Man!! That's a stiff wind out there! It is pretty much the reverse of what I drove through on Friday. :eek:

114mpg Friday with it at my back...

48F (41F windchill), 22-32mph headwind from the WNW, sunny:


91.6mpg for 20.0mi (Work to doctor's office)

The tank is down to 97.7mpg over 285.3mi with 17 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 92.3mpg over 42.8mi

Sean & Andrew - you are both killin' it! WOW. I wish I had that wind too.

Andrew - yes, I've had the engine bay blanketed w/ a hot water heater blanket since Aug. ;) It was a quick fit and doesn't cover the whole engine compartment. Good suggestion weather strip along the seams. Let me know how that works and what you used. I might modify mine if you think it helps with your warm winters. :p Right Sean?

Sean, you must have set a personal record for Nov. with that 114 mpg! Must have missed your post. Awesome :flag:

Yeah, the wind is just epic fail today. I filled up, and got about what I expected. That short fill became a normal fill today, so for the two tanks it's sitting on almost a 55 MPG average. Anywho, at 58 MPG over 48 miles averaged today.

I started out with 43°F this morning and we hit a high of 61°F. Winds have been S in the morning to NW in the afternoon and have been 5-10 mph with gusts to 17 mph.
94.6 9.4-to wife's work
80.3 12.0-back home
93.4 11.4-to wife's work
92.8 12.0-back home
Average for today was 89.6 mpg.

63.8 over 47 miles home. Yay tailwind.

Hi, Steven -- warm indeed! :)

I had to check back and actually I beat that number last year, but it was much warmer. Back on 11/03/2008 it was 66F with an 11mph tailwind from the SSE -- that was good for 136.0mpg over 21.8mi. It was much easier to hit numbers like that when gas prices were high and people drove a lot less aggressively!

Matthew, the wind is nice when it is behind you... not so much in any other direction. :p

The wind was still up there but I did okay on the way back to the house. The traffic was a bit lighter than usual and I tried a variation to my city bypass route that seems to be a good bit better than what I've been doing.

45F (36F windchill), 23-32mph wind from the WNW, sunny:


92.5mpg for 4.1mi (Doctor's office to home)

The tank is steady at 97.7mpg over 289.5mi with 17 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 92.3mpg over 47.0mi

To soccer, 64.7 over 6 miles, 76.4 back.

to school / work >
- 15.6 / 1.4 miles (54 W@10)
- 24.4 / 12.2 miles

home >
- 25.9 / 13.2 miles (64 N@10)

daily avg - 24.7 over 26.8 miles
tank is just above 7/8 with 85.5 miles on the odo.

Looks like a week with out a drop of rain for a change:Banane04:

I really need to get my grill block installed. :o It took over 15mi for the coolant temp to get over 190F this morning!

23F, no wind, clear:


92.1mpg for 22.8mi (Home to work)

The tank is down to 97.2mpg over 312.3mi with 16 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

I'm starting out the day at 34°F and the wind is NW@ 5-10 mph. The daily average is now at 82.9 mpg.
88.6 9.4
77.9 9.4

Looks like a week with out a drop of rain for a change:Banane04:
And it's about time! We set a new record for October rainfall, the most since they started keeping records in 1902. We 15.xx inches, when an average year is 4.3 inches. :rolleyes: It's been dry for 4 days now, and a pond I drive past is still flowing over the spillway.

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71 mpg home last night at 70 degrees
74.6 mpg to work this morning at 52 degrees

The tank is up again, to 71 mpg / 458 miles. :D

60.4 over 57 miles in this morning. Then, 60.1 over 5 miles to lunch. Finally, 65 over 48 on the way home today. Now, it'd be just perfect if I could keep my wife out of the car for the next week ;).

doing some testing now. I demodded my car except fpr tire pressure and seeing diff results at certain checkpoints, but overall doesn't seem to have changed my results at the end.


My grillblock was a piece of cardboard with some cheap vinyl material glued to it installed behind my grill and zip tied on. While it did help engine warmup. I'm thinking that the position it was in it was acting like a parachute rather than pushing the air over the car.

Had a short piece of exhaust pip in engine comepartment stuck againt my muffler and routed to my air box to get i.a.t up. i'd see iat temps up a lil but not til was close to work. maybe would work better on longer run or when weather is cooler


had a small piece of cardboard in front of rad and never realy check to see if that was helping. maybe put this one back on to see.


Right only thing changed on my car since i bought was increased tire pressure and also got the alignment adjusted. Oh and the SG too!!

Nice work, Andrew! :woot:

Matthew, do I detect a little pleasure in your post? :D

It's always good to double check your setup every once in a while, Mike. ;)

I had some pretty decent runs this afternoon. :)

45F (40F windchill), 8-10mph tailwind from the SSE, overcast:


103.4mpg for 20.0mi (Work to doctor's office -- had it up higher but a truck made me stop part way into the parking lot :rolleyes:)
94.9mpg for 4.1mi (Doctor's office to home)

The tank is back up to 97.5mpg over 336.6mi with 16 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 96.8mpg over 47.0mi

I'm telling you, this reduction in pain is really making a huge difference in my numbers!

Oh yes, happy indeed. The SGII thinks the tank is 61+ over 200 miles. That'll end though with the missus putting in some miles at 44 MPG avg :P.

Well, try to take solace in the fact that she'd be getting much worse mileage in pretty much anything else. Still hurts, but maybe that'll reduce it to a sting?

I'm certainly glad this day is over. The FE wasn't too bad but it was certainly the bright spot of the day. We got up to a whopping 46° today and winds were NW@ 5-10 mph
88.6 9.4-to wife's work
77.9 9.4-back home
87.6 12.0-to wife's work
86.4 12.0-back home
95.3 8.2-to daughter's voice lesson
84.3 9.9-back home
Average for today was 86.2 mpg.

Sorry to hear of the bad FE (aka old man winter) for you Larry and Sean.

school/work>
- 14.0 / 1.4 miles (41F E@3)
- 23.2 / 12.3 miles

Lowes/home> (had to pick up some suppies to build a cornhole board game)
- 24.7 / 13.1 miles (61F S@6)
- 16.7 / 0.5 miles :mad:

daily avg - 23.3 over 27.2 miles
tank is just above 6/8 with 115.8 on the odo.

Well, try to take solace in the fact that she'd be getting much worse mileage in pretty much anything else. Still hurts, but maybe that'll reduce it to a sting?

Well, that was part of the reason I upgraded to the Prius. It still tends to chaff, is all ;). Better than 33-35 mpg overall.

Well, I must have left my numbers in the car. Going from memory:

71 mpg home. I lost a couple mpg at a highway merge - a huge cluster of traffic came and I had to stop dead, then gun it up to 55 to merge in. :(
68 mpg this morning. I lose a bit with a failed FAS - it was idling for about a minute. Calculating a minute of idle fuel usage, that would have been about 71 otherwise. :(

The tank still reads 71, though.

The Prius and missus went to preschool this morning. 43.4 over 12 miles. The tank sits at 58.0. Blah.

Some good and some bad...I've been staying in town lately at the girlfriend's place, so I haven't been driving nearly as many miles...bad news is, that means short trips. Engine barely even got to ~125* into work the other morning, I may see if I can store a bicycle over there instead.

Also, good weather here is allowing me some motorcycle time, so that will bring my mileage up as well :)

I had 36° this morning and we got to 52° for a high. The wind was SW@ 5-10 mph.
86.9 9.4-to wife's work
78.9 9.4-back home
96.0 11.4-to wife's work
87.0 12.1-back home
Average for today was 87.2 mpg.

Weather got colder lately and this morning it was raining too. I constantly use heated gloves (2A power draw) when on the bike.
Haven't ridden much over 5°C lately, idle began to get higher even after several kms. Today I covered half of the radiator - it seems to work, I'll have to find some permanent solution, now it's a very makeshift one :)
Last week I had a pretty long 2-up ride on the freeway well over my usual speed and w/o P&G, I was mostly doing 110-120 and later had another 100-110 non-freeway ride (I was almost late from work, traffic was very slow out of the city Friday afternoon so I had to make up for it later), but I saved a lot of gas then when I stayed here because of the frost - I don't like to ride on any form of ice :o
In spite of the fast rides and extra weight and cold and rain Teresa still hasn't gone to reserve so she's doing better than the present 3.08l/100km (76.3mpg) so I'm basically satisfied. Result soon, I expect to get the reserve light on the way home (probably tomorrow, the forecast tells 0 degrees and probable thick fog for the next morning, sounds very unpleasant...)

Stay safe out there, Alvaro!!! :eek:

I started feeling pretty ill yesterday around 10AM so my numbers after that when leaving work weren't stellar (though I did get some pretty incredible breaks in traffic and light timing).

I'm at home today, but here are the numbers from yesterday.

45F (36F windchill), 12mph cross/headwind from the WNW, overcast:


95.1mpg for 20.0mi (Work to doctor's office)


43F (34F windchill), 15mph wind from the WNW, overcast:


80.5mpg for 3.7mi (Doctor's office to home)

The tank is down to 97.2mpg over 383.2mi with 15 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 95.4mpg over 46.6mi

My wife thinks I have the dreaded H. virus. I guess we'll see. :(

Day Total: 95.4mpg over 46.6mi

My wife thinks I have the dreaded H. virus. I guess we'll see. :(
Looks like you did pretty good despite the health issues. Keep in mind that less than 2% of flu-like symptoms turn out to be the pig flu. I pray you recover quickly.

I started the day with 35° and the wind is WSW@ 5 mph. The daily average is at 84.0 mpg.
89.4 9.4
79.2 9.4

I have a lead on a welding job. The pay is in the $12/hr range and it's 1st shift. I have to go in a little while to fill out an application.

Get well, Sean! I hope your family stays clear from it.

70.5 home last night
71.8 this morning - I was heading for 73+, but traffic at the last light was ??????. It was backed up about 5 blocks, when there are usually 10 cars at the light.

Tank is steady at 71.2 / 523 miles and just above 1/2 on the gauge.

Thanks, guys — I'm feeling a bit better and hope it continues that trend!

51F, 8mph headwind from the ESE, sunny:


96.5mpg for 3.7mi (Home to doctor's office -- the EBH HELPS!)

The tank is steady at 97.2mpg over 387.0mi with 14 of 20 bars remaining.

We reached a high of 53° today and winds have been NW@10-15 mph with gusts to 25+ mph
89.4 9.4-to wife's work
79.2 9.4back home
88.4 13.1-to potential new job
88.3 15.6-back home
85.1 11.4-to wife's work
87.7 12.1-back home
Average for today was 86.5 mpg. I will be filling up in the next day or so. I've been on 2 pips part of yesterday and all of today and, I need to make a trip on the highway ~75 miles each way on Sunday evening/night. A good friend of mine gave me free tickets to a concert and my daughter and I are going on a daddy/daughter date.

Enjoy the concert, Larry!

51F, 12mph wind from the E, sunny:


90.7mpg for 3.6mi (Doctor's office to home)

The tank is still at 97.2mpg over 390.7mi with 14 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 93.5mpg over 7.4mi

Enjoy the concert, Larry!

51F, 12mph wind from the E, sunny:


90.7mpg for 3.6mi (Doctor's office to home)

The tank is still at 97.2mpg over 390.7mi with 14 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 93.5mpg over 7.4mi

Thanks. It should be pretty good. It's going to be Tenth Avenue North, Jonny Diaz, and the headliners are...Mercy Me.

Is it bad that I don't recognize any of what you named? :o

Is it bad that I don't recognize any of what you named? :o
:D No. I listen to the radio a lot more than most.They are three of the more popular Christian artists. Mercy Me did the song "I Can Only Imagine."

Great news with the tickets and the date Larry, I know who they are ;)

Yesterdays information (I was busy last night working on building some cornhole boards for my son's birthday party on Sat, he will be 6)
school/work>
- 16.3 / 1.3 miles (46 F sw@8)
- 25.6 / 12.3 miles

School/home>
- 24.3 / 11.9 miles (57F N@8)
- 21.7 / 1.3 miles

daily avg - 24.4 over 26.8 miles

Todays numbers
School/work>
- 16.3 / 1.3 miles (39F e@7)
- 23.7 / 12.3 miles

Atwoods/TSC/home> needed to find some corn to put in the beanbags;)
- 22.8 / 8.2 miles (68F s@9)
- 26.7 / 1.6 miles
- 20.7 / 3.1 miles (lost of hills and through lost of lights)

daily avg - 22.9 over 26.5 miles
tank is down to 5/8 with 169.1 on the odo.

Thanks for the explanation, Larry. :o

Nice work, Jason! :thumbs_up:

I'm working from home again today -- my daughter has her 1yr checkup and the wife is too squeamish to hold her down for inoculations. :rolleyes:

I'll be driving for my own appointment this afternoon, though.

Took the dog to the vet to have cancer removed, 45.0 over 12 miles. It was that @#$@#$ frost overnight that killed it... I had to partially melt the ice before I could go anywhere. Looks like I'll be clearing my spot in the garage again (and getting an block heater). 63.3 on the return at 45 F.

69.3 home last night - I was in a bad mood and my mpg suffered.
75.3 this morning - much better. :)

The tank is still reading 71.2 and now at 560 miles and exactly 1/2 on the gauge. 590 was my best 1/2 tank reading this summer.

We started out with 36° and the wind was SE@ 5-15 mph. It has now risen to 43° and the wind is still SE@ 5-15 mph. The daily is just barely hanging onto the 80 mpg range with 81.4 mpg. I still have the weekly shopping trip and the highway trip Sunday.
86.5 9.4
73.7 9.4
56.0 1.5
84.7 7.9
104 .1
67.7 .8
91.4 8.4

Bah... darn wind/weather/traffic. 57.9 over 47 on the way in. I was reminded this morning just how much I hate driving with "the crowd"... I had to put the four ways on just 1 mile outside the house for an Elantra that was glued to my butt driving at the upper limit. At the very least, she held herself in check and passed safely a few miles down the road after that.

Home for lunch. Another lovely day in the mid-70's.

74.8 mpg there,
89.6 mpg back to work.

The tank is up to 71.5 now, and 579 miles.

Winds realy affected me today. started out this morning from the NE and now there coming from the east. managed to eek out 40.6 for morning trip and barely pulled off 39 mpg on ride home.

66.4 over 47 home. Huzzah for school buses on the highway.

I did okay considering the wind and typical crazy Friday traffic. Too bad about the traffic -- it was the warmest day I think I've ever seen in a Minnesota November.

60F, 12-14mph wind from the SSE, sunny:


91.1mpg for 3.7mi (Home to doctor's office)
94.2mpg for 4.1mi (Doctor's office to home)

The tank is down to 97.0mpg over 398.7mi with 14 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 92.3mpg over 7.9mi

Huzzah for short exposure times to tailgaters! ;)

Today it seems is the day of the WIND:(

School/work>
- 18.6 / 1.3 miles (59F S20 Gusting to 26)
- 24.6 / 12.3 miles (should have been higher with those tailwinds :confused:)

home>
- 23.2 / 13.2 miles (72F S16 Gusting to 31:eek:)

daily avg - 23.6 over 26.8 miles
tank is just under 5/8 with 195.9 on the odo

Suppose to have 2 more days like this, crazy weather, it is suppose to be a high of 62. Sean I think you got Southern Missouri's weather today.

That was close.:eek: I just about didn't make 80 mpg today. We topped out at 54° and the winds stayed SE@ 5-15 mph.
86.5 9.4-to wife's work
73.7 9.4-back home
56.0 1.5-to bank
84.7 7.9-to BMV
104 .1-to accountant office
67.7 .8-to gas station
91.4 8.4-back home
96.4 9.4-to wife's work
68.3 7.9-to Meijer
77.8 13.0-back home via my mom's
Average for today was 80.6 mpg.

Stay safe out there, Alvaro!!! :eek:


Thanks, I'm doing what I can :)
I've read that you got better, good :)

Well, that 3.08l/100 is final for the last tank. When I started Teresa the reserve light came out in 10 meters :D But considering the weather and other circumstances I'm still satisfied. Last winter I could not do any better than 3.5l, so even this 3.08 is much better. We'll see what can I accomplish without fast 2-up rides and when I'll always ride even closer to freezepoint.

This morning the weather was much nicer than on Thursday, it was 6C and light fog instead of 2C and rain, so I got to work without getting soaked. The road was really wet so I tried some ridge riding where I could identify anything like a ridge - the inner side of the lane on the 2-lanes of Budapest and the right lane on the Székesfehérvár 4-lane on my way here. This really made sense because the outer lane has many ponds in the lengthwise delves (I don't know the correct English term for these 'valleys' made by the trucks and buses in the tarmac...)
The freeway is nice edge to edge.

My Sunday.


Went to the old time drag races in bradenton today! was all excited to get out and see how lil silver would do on the highway seeing as that how i am getting to Tenn for turkey day soon.

Got on the Highway showing 40.x on the SG and it went downhill from there! :( dern winds!!

Coming from the east and i was seeing The Sg instant readout showing 34-36 mpg. by the time i got to the track i managed to keep it over 36 mpg! Oh well guess I shouldn't complain with this compared to how some other here have it.


Return trip was a lil better cause ride from track to the highway had the tailwind and had 45 mpg showing when i merged onto the highway. The wind was stronger than earlier but due to engine being warmed up and air temp being warmer I kept it over 38 when i got off at my exit. I reset my current trip and by the time i pulled into my driveway the sg was showing 47.x current trip from when i got off highway.


Tank had started out at 42.1 and when i refueled the final tally was 38.35 mpg.


My first dose of winter! :eek:

To soccer pictures, 56.4 over 6 miles, 76.8 on the return. Huzzah for 75 F ;)

On my last working day I got totally soaked on the way back home. Now I have a week off to dry my clothes :D
At least it wasn't cold: 9-10C. And the freeway looks GREAT at night in rain with all that mist and lights :)

Actually, that sounds scary!! I never liked seeing stuff like that when on my bicycle and I can't imagine I'd feel much different about it on a motorcycle... slippery!! :eek: