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I hope everyone had a nice weekend!

I got the week off to a good start here. ;)

48F, no wind, clear:


110.4mpg for 22.6mi (Home to work)

The tank is steady at 103.1mpg over 1039.4mi with no bars left on the fuel gauge.

I'll have to visit the gas station this afternoon...

Not too bad of a start for the day. The temperature is 51F and the wind is N@ 5-10 mph. The average is 98.1 mpg.
78.6 8.8
119.8 12.0

Not a good start... :(
Home to Work
50F, no wind, clear
31.86 mpg/23.25 miles

While approaching steep bridge @ 65 mph (36 mpg) going slightly downhill, a vehicle went into my path, nearly had me rear end that van! Slowed down to 35 mph (28.8 mpg) before I start climbing on the bridge *GROAN*

!@#$%!^$!$#% (taking 5 deep breaths)

Good Morning hypermilers...

I hate when that happens, Scott!! :(

Decent morning here. 68 degrees and foggy. 81 mpg.

The tank is now at 76.4 mpg / 78 miles. 1 gallon down!

Have I mentioned I like warmer weather for mileage? :D

75F, 9mph cross/tailwind from the E, sunny:


127.3mpg for 25.2mi (Work to Costco for gas)
136.5mpg for 2.4mi (Costco to home ;))

The current tank is at 136.5mpg over 2.4mi ;)

Day Total: 119.3mpg over 50.4mi

:eek: THAT's more like it!

Light to moderate rain and a fairly cool temperature of 56F and winds ENE@ 10-15 mph are bringing my average down. I'm at 93.6 mpg for the day. I have another 32 miles or so of driving to take a friend to the bus station tonight and it is going to be on an unfamiliar route. I'm hoping to at least hang on to 90 mpg or above.
76.8 8.8
119.8 12.0
84.8 9.4
95.8 11.9

I had a nice day work and drive wise. :)

44.3- 7.4 mile to work. had 45+ coming into work but losy 1 mpg cause i had to park on second floor of garage today

46.2- 6.4 miles home.

when i park unstairs i found a high spot and got a ncie lil push n rolled down the ramp and when i finaly did restart sg showed 60+ for a short time :D

tank sitting at 239 miles dash guage showing between half and 3/4 but closer to half.
almost half way to 500!

Fridays number disappointing
21.0 / over 26.7 miles (in the morning was a Thunderstorm that had flooding on the streets. and a nice head wind in the rain (up hill both ways, :rolleyes:)

Morning
home>school>work
- 22.0 / 13.4 miles (59F Calm)

Evening
work>home
- 24.0 / 13.2 miles (65F NW@10)

daily avg = 23.0 / 26.6 miles
tank is a hair above 2/8 with 324.1 miles on the ODO and down to ~23.1 MPG (ETE down to 508)

Well that was fun! :)

49F, no wind, clear:


113.7mpg for 22.6mi (Home to work)

The tank is down (!) to 115.6mpg over 25.1mi

I had 49F and winds were N@ 5-10 mph. The daily average is at 95.4 mpg.
86.7 8.8
102.9 12.0

Woke up late....
Hit traffic, other bad morning...
School Bus slowing down at downslope of steep bridge,
the reason why I usually wake up so early.

Home to Work (5 minutes early, usually 30 minutes early for MPG reason)
48F, ESE @ 5 mph Tailwind/crosswind
30.12 mpg/23.27 miles
31.7 Tank MPG

Possible rear emergency brake dragging (disc/drum combo)
will need to check them out...

Been at work, but with no network all morning. Something freaked out, and the IT folks were running around like madmen.

79.2 mpg / 10.5 miles last night
82.6 / 10.5 this morning

73.5 / 3.8 to a function at school
96.6 / 3.6 back to work. Same route where I had my 129 segment, but I didn't get the lights this time.

Tank is up to 77.7 / 106 miles.

I didn't do quite as well on the way home today, but considering yesterday's trip was earlier and had a lot less traffic I'm happy with losing less than 1mpg. ;)

The day total ended up being almost identical...

75F, 9mph cross/tailwind from the ESE, sunny:


126.4mpg for 22.9mi (Work to home)

The tank is back up to 120.5mpg over 48.1mi :D

Day Total: 119.8mpg over 45.6mi

palemelanesian looks nervously over his shoulder...

another wonderfull Florida day! ;)


43.8- 7.4 miles to work

47.8- 6.4 miles home.


tank is now over 250 miles 253 to be exact. still sitting above 1/2 tank on teh dash guage. I'll have to go back n check pervious tank to see where i was at half way.

home>school>work
- 22.7 / 13.4 miles (51F E@5)

work>home
- 24.7 / 13.1 miles (72F N@6)

daily avg = 23.7 / 26.5 miles

tank is just under 2/8 with 350.6 (up 0.1 ~23.2 MPG numbers are right around 509 ETE)

75.2 miles on ~2 gal.

MPG is low due to learning quirks of the Bandit (including a small 1st gear friction zone) & dropping it backing up steep ramp into my garage. Small gas spill & dented tank :(

Highway MPG est 60+ steady state @ 50-60mph :woot:

Sorry to hear about the dropped motorcycle. :(

Cooler this morning and the traffic wasn't as accommodating...

42F, no wind, clear:


111.1mpg for 22.6mi (Home to work)

The tank is down to 117.2mpg over 70.7mi

I'll be doing my monthly lunch meeting and also stopping by the doctor's office this afternoon so I expect that to drop a bit.

Well, for the first time with the Insight, I can say I have a 100+ mpg average going for the day.:woot: I'm at 46F and the wind is SW@ <5 mph. The daily average is at 100.3 over 19.4+(miles lost to keying off) miles.

Work to Home yesterday (New Route (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Elkton,+MD+21921&daddr=39.47198,-75.848236+to:Middletown,+DE&hl=en&geocode=FftZXAIdSOB6-ylDx9xykaXHiTEIDF6AZjuFFQ%3B%3BFdTzWQIdH6l8-ynpgjmdzwvHiTHCUCBt5PadQg&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=12&via=1&sll=39.52804,-75.772425&sspn=0.17345,0.352936&ie=UTF8&ll=39.463234,-75.592804&spn=0.347222,0.705872&z=11))

32.16 mpg
27.41 miles

Home to Work

50F overcast 4mph W (crosswind/tailwind)
33 mpg (not bad for cold engine!)
40 mph avg
26.88 miles

TANK so far
31.56 mpg
394.45 miles
12.50 Gallons used (out of 18.5) 67.5% remaining

FAS (EOC)
CE: 2.81
TE: 32.08
G: .10

78.1 home last night with a headwind.
81.7 this morning with a headwind. ???

The tank is up to 78.0 / 128 miles.

The daily is slowly climbing. I'm up to 101.8 mpg over 56.5 mpg. I had the oil changed today and they discovered a slight oil leak. Nothing severe but I'll have to keep a close eye on it to make sure it doesn't get worse. It is at the dampness stage for now and there aren't any actual drips. I also have an EBH on order and should have it installed by next week.
100.3 19.4
94.0 11.8
107.3 18.6
106.4 6.7

Lunchtime errands.

70.0 mpg / 4.7 miles - first store, for chicken feed
153 mpg / 0.4 miles - (downhill) 2nd store, for dog and palemelanesian feed :p
83.9 / 6.5 mi - ATM then work, with 100 lb of feed sacks in the passenger seat. Truck? I don't need one! :p

Tank is up to 78.1 / 139 miles.

First segment, 72F, no wind, sunny,
Second segment, 77F, 5mph tailwind from the SE, sunny,
Third segment, 78F, 5mph wind from the SE, sunny:


101.2mpg for 3.3mi (Work to restaurant with cold engine)
117.9mpg for 22.3mi (Restaurant to Doctors' office)
113.1mpg for 4.1mi (Doctors' office to home through traffic)

The tank is down to 116.5mpg over 100.6mi

Day Total: 113.2mpg over 52.5mi

We hit a high of 69F today and winds are E@ 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph. And, I hit my first 100+ mpg day!:woot:
100.3 19.4-to wife's work and back
94.0 11.8-to Walmart for oil
107.3 18.6-Walmart to my son's work for an oil change
106.4 6.7-shop to home
105.7 12.4-to wife's work
92.3 11.2-back home
Average for today was 100.9 mpg:woot: The tank is at 89.4 mpg with 1/2 tank showing on the guess gauge.

another wonderfull trip to n from work. well going in was 99% uneventful. when i turned onto the long 2 mile road to my workplace some guy on a motorcycle didn't like my rate of acceleration and roared past me. I expected him to go racing down the road but he just wanted to get up to speed quicker i guess. funny thing is that when i pulled into the garage at work there he was just getting of his bike as i rolled in.

oh well! (sigh)


43.6- 7.4 to work. parked on secodn level of garage and i loos 1 mog going up the ramp and circling around.

46.4- 6.4 miles home.

got a nice roll going and rolled down the ramp and almost made it to the gate. when i started up treh Sg showed 1225 for an instant then dropped to 455 then into the 60's :D caught my one light but next one hooked me! :(

tank sitting at 44.6- 267 miles. needle still above 1/2 way! thats one mini goal met towards the big 500 mile one!


Now I'm curious: what does a palemelanesian eat??:confused::p

good going Larry, it didn't take very long for you to get into silver sippin' form;)

Nice mike I get that from motor bike all the time, usually the ones with straight pipes (those should be illegal):confused:

home>school>work
- 22.7 / 13.4 miles (57F E@7 with approaching Thunder storms)

work>home
- 23.2 / 13.2 miles (59F NE@13 with rain)

daily avg = 22.9 / 26.6 miles

tanks is just over 1/8 with no light yet, 377.2 and down 0.1 to 23.1 again (ETE = 509)

Congrats, Larry! Where is the leak? Did you verify that an aluminum crush washer was used under the oil drain bolt?

47F, no wind, clear:


110.9mpg for 22.6mi (Home to work)

The tank is down to 115.3mpg over 123.2mi

Finally used a gallon. ;)

Sean, the leak appears to be closer to the top of the engine which would suggest possibly a valve cover gasket. At this time though, I would classify it as more of a seepage than a leak.

Not doing so good today.:( Durned SOC management; I was down a few bars and had to make it back up.:p The temperature was 53F and the wind was calm. I had 85.7 mpg over 21.0 miles.

Pulse and Regen, Larry... P&R. ;)

Pulse and Regen, Larry... P&R. ;)

:o *submits self to 50 lashes with a wet noodle* :D

Congrats Larry on the 100+ MPG! Keep up the good work!

Yesterday
Work - Dover McDonalds (for lunch before meeting)
34.32 mpg
22.97 miles

McDonalds - Meeting
32.20 mpg
5.37 miles

Meeting - Home
33.51 mpg
43.50 miles

Refill
31.004 mpg (163.16 % of EPA)
473.1 miles

mpguino calibration
Actual: 31.004 MPG / 473.1 miles / 15.259 Gallons
MPGuino: 31.76 MPG / 473.17 miles / 14.90 Gallons
Recalibrated

Today
Home - Work

53F overcast, 4 mph WSW (crosswind/tailwind)
32.25 mpg
26.9 miles

Now I'm curious: what does a palemelanesian eat??:confused::p

:p In this case, loaves of bread and some meat for at-work sandwiches.

77.6 mpg home, with the load on board.
83.2 mpg this morning, 78 degrees - the warmest morning so far this year.

The tank is up to 78.4 / 161 miles. 2 gallons down, but still pegged above F.

Palemalanesian is the gasoline and matches, he is on diet by hypermiling.

The average slipped some; I went on a pack stuffing/practice run.;) It was kind of an eye opener actually. All this time, I thought I have been running around at 19 bars of SOC. Now that I'm currently at 20 bars, I realized that I have only ever been as high as 18 bars. Oops!:o Live and learn. The daily average has slipped a bit to 84.8 mpg.
85.7 21.0
68.6 8.6
107.1 8.6

You should see some better steady state numbers now you are over 18 bars SoC.

Took a bit to get up to 20, eh? :D

You should see some better steady state numbers now you are over 18 bars SoC.

Took a bit to get up to 20, eh? :D

It sure did. It took till the very end of the 8.6 miles to get it there. I tried several times on the way back to get more charge in it and it absolutely refused charging. Even with the attempts at stuffing more charge, I still got significantly better on the way home as the number indicates. Heading out now to pick up my wife. This should be interesting.

The car drives quite a bit differently with a full SoC. :)

It is looking more and more like I'm just not going to be able to pull the 130+mpg numbers using my bypass route on the way home. There are just too many stops involved. Unless traffic slows down significantly, I'm not going to be able to go back to the old route and duplicate the results I got 2 summers ago. :p

On the other hand, 120+mpg is proving very doable indeed.

81F, 9mph cross/tailwind from the ESE, mostly sunny:


125.7mpg for 22.9mi (Work to home)

The tank is back up to 117.0mpg over 146.2mi

Day Total: 117.9mpg over 45.6mi

home>school>work
- 23.5 / 13.4 miles (60F SE@10)

work>home
- 23.2 / 13.2 miles (71F SW@17 gusting to 25)

daily avg = 23.4 / 26.6 miles

tank is at 1/16 on the GG and has 403.8 on the ODO (up 0.1 to ~23.2 and ETE is still 509)

I am just not sure I can get 100 miles out of the tank so I may just fill up tomorrow on the way back from work since gas is on the way down $2.59 now.

No numbers today as I'm working from home.

No numbers today as I'm working from home.

Wow, even with you not driving I'll still have trouble doing better than your numbers.:p Rain stinks!

The temperature is 58F and the wind is SE@ 5 mph with moderate rain and heavy amounts of standing water. The daily average is at 94.1 mpg.
82.2 8.8
105.7 11.7

How was your trip yesterday afternoon, Larry?

Work to home (yesterday)

32.61 mpg
27.42 miles

Home to Milford (son's graduation)
WITH FULL LOAD in trunk, 4 persons and an infant

31.84 mpg
64.28 miles

Missed record from Milford to Home

Home to work

61F Clear calm
32.8 mpg
26.95 miles


Current TANK status

31.42 mpg (165.36 % of EPA)
245.57 miles
7.82 Gallon used out of 18.5 total (57.72% remaining)

some rain going home, hurrying for house guests, 73.0 mpg
humid this morning, 79.7 mpg

The tank is down to 78.1 / 182 miles.

How was your trip yesterday afternoon, Larry?

Oops!:o

Here are yesterday's numbers:
85.7 21.0-to wife's work and back
68.6 8.6-SOC stuffing/practice run to a local Church
107.1 8.6-back home from practice run
112.8 9.4-to wife's work
97.7 12.0-back home
Average for the day was 90.7 mpg

Man I had a whole post "pecked" out and got the Server busy message when i tried to post it! :(

Todays numbers

44.9- 7.4 mile to work

45.5- 6.4 miles home.

tank sitting at 281 mile and about a needles width above 1/2. This is at the top of the range I wanted to be at half tank. 260-280 range and i still have a lil more to go!

Mike I've done what I can to minimize those errors but if you do see it, try hitting the back button on your browser. Usually the browser will read everything back out of the cache and your message will still be there for you to try posting again.

My plans got changed and I didn't have to drive this afternoon. I'm heading out tomorrow and may consider letting CobraPond take a turn behind the wheel. Maybe he can help me salvage the tank up to a 90 or better.:p Last time I looked, I was at 87.8 with 9 of 20 bars left on the guess-gauge. I think I'm around the 600 mile mark on the tank give or take.

home>school>work
- 23.2 / 13.4 miles (58F W@7)

work>gas station
- 22.6 / 9.7 miles (73F NW@6)

Fill - SG was over reporting (I hate that!!!!)
426.9 miles
18.877 gals
22.61 MPG Ho Hum I thought I was getting better than that, what a let down):(

Adjusted SG half the error

gas station>home
- 26.7 / 4 miles (if only I could have a warm engine and fluids to begin with) Noticed as the GS that the oil was way low, I will have to add some more Mobile 0-30)

daily avg = 23.45 / 27.1 miles

tank is at 4 miles with 0.15 gals used:o, needle is over F and MPG ~26.7 (ETE 586 miles)

After the first week of my new commute (and a bunch of driving before that), I pulled down 47 and change. Now I can work on a 50 MPG tank!

-soD

I have some numbers from yesterday that I need to post here.
75.1 7.1-hotel to IHOP
100.3 11.7-IHOP to home
101.0 8.6-to Dairy Queen
126.9 8.6-back home
Average for the day was 98.9 mpg. The trip home from DQ was nearly identical to the trip home from the gas station yesterday with the Prius when I was alone and got 122; I had my wife on the trip from DQ.