Well got my new lancer the other day and have been cruisin! But I happened to look at the gas meter and
Jeez! this car eats some gas! It was on "E"! I know its something that should be expected from a car like this, but man, gas is gonna kill me. Is there anything I could do that could help the car burn less fuel or atleast at a slower pace. My friend said something about an air intake. I have no idea what that is, but any suggestions? I don't wanna be refilling every other day!

 

well... in the city i get about 400km to the tank, on the highway (at 110km/h) I get about 500 to 550 km to a tank. Realize that once you hit 3600 rpms or so, the MIVEC will kick in and it'll burn a bit more fuel so if you keep it below that I find it helps the fuel economy.
Adjust your driving! Hard acceleration and speeding really does not help.

 

Depending how I drive, i usually get around 400KM on a tank also.

 

According to my scangauge I get around 24mpg if I'm being good and shifting at around 2,500 and never putting the throttle down.

But I usually end up gunning it by the end of the day =\

 

We have a small gas tank and the light comes on rather early (when about 2.5 gallons are left in tank). The car will get you anywhere from 24-30 mpg, depending on how/where you drive it.

 

Yea, my buddies Tibby has a 55L tank, where as the ralliart has a 50L tank.
I'm actually kind of glad the light comes on early. I drove back to Edmonton from Fort McMurray once and there's a 200 or 300km stretch with no services and the light came on with about 60 km to go. I was sure that this will be the night I'll run out of gas but it made it haha. It was an exciting, snow stormy night.

 

Oh, to add to this, when I filled the tank that night once I got to a gas station I put 47 liters in it

 

I get 8.3-9.0 L per 100 km when I'm not on a recetrack ...

 

I don't know if this applies to the car when it's near stock, but I did some personal experimenting with mileage. I consistantly found that I would use more gas if I drive in 3rd/4th @ 2500/3000rpm in city speeds. If however I plan to use 5th gear as a majority of the gear with that tank at the city speeds, I get about 30-40km more per tank before the light comes on.

 

Whoa that's pretty close! I usually drive for a bit when the gas light comes on and I end up fitting 41-43 liters.

 

If you're cruising, unless you're under 25-30 mph, you should always be in 5th. Pointless to be in any other gear.

 

I had no idea that people didn't do this... Who drives around in a lower gear when just cruising?

 

k3lv, apparently.

 

depends who im cruising with. those mustangs are silly and i like making em look silly too lol

 

big thing is when the mivec kicks in, last summer I had a trip from SA to dallas (right at 270 miles), on the way there I set the cruise control @ 68-70ish the whole way keeping the rpms below 3500 and away from mivec, I filled up before I got on the highway and filled up again right when I got there, I ended up getting about 31.8 mpg.

On the way back, I still used cruise control, but set it at 75+mph (parts of the highway here in texas have the speed limit at 80 ) and obviously this kept the engine in the mivec range the whole trip and I got about 28 mpg on the way back.

Last spring break I did something stupid, I wont say how far or how fast exactly, because I'm slightly ashamed of doing it and do not want to advocate it, but long story short I found out that my car gets at least 24 mpg in 5th gear no matter what the speed.