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- From: macman+@pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: 89 Voyager LE 2.5 turbo 4, gas mileage and octane
- Message-ID: <4854@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 18:04:43 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.142511.11123@news.duc.auburn.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug17.142511.11123@news.duc.auburn.edu> kevins@eng.auburn.edu (Kevin Sullivan) writes:
- >Just bought this car, got 22mpg on highway (and some city) using 89 octane.
- >AC was on. The next tank was 87 octane and I got 20 on the highway. The
- >manual says to use 87 minimum, the fuel door sticker says premium recomended.
- >It didn't knock on 87. Haven't tried premium yet.
- >
- >Is this mileage about normal for this van/engine combo? What does the 2.5
- >nonturbo get? The V6? If anyone has this engine, let me know what you think
- >about it.
-
- My dad has just such a beast... uses 89 octane all the time. The knock
- sensor will keep the engine from having problems on 87 octane, but you
- will notice significantly more power from 89. There is also a performance
- boost with higher (i.e. 92) octane, but we didn't figure it's worth the
- cost.
-
- The gas mileage (22 on 89 oct) sounds typical (for an automatic... there's
- no overdrive), but then again, my dad "gets his foot in it" too much to
- get good gas mileage with anything (can you say 21 mpg VW Rabbit, I knew
- you could).
-
- We've had ours since '89, have 49k miles on it, and have never had a
- single problem, except for a PCV system problem which slowly shuffles
- our oil from the sump to the air cleaner... it still passes emissions
- inspections, so we just change the filter every 10k or less, and
- live with it). For the record, big Fords (Crown Vics) like to race,
- for whatever reasons, and always lose to the turbo-van!
-
- -Den
-
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