Strange operation question
04-10-08, 09:40 AM
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Strange operation question
A few weeks ago someone backed into my car and messed up my Tanabe mufflers. They were bad enough to have to get rid of.
Anyway the body is fixed but I decided that I'm poor and couldn't afford a new Tanabe so I just bought pipes and run them from the Resonators to a tip. No mufflers.
After that I replaced the diz cap and rotor (Waiting on VCG, plugs and wires)
It seems my fuel econ went down? Possible? I put my Enkei rims back on (17x8 and chrome with 95% tread on Toyo Proxes tires, and I know they weigh more than stock rims, but not much.
Also, are the stock plug wires 5MM. I just won a new set of Autolite plug wires last week from Ebay and they say 7MM.
Is there a night and day difference between oiled and fouled out plugs and leaky VCG after I put new NGK's in (coming soon) as pertaining to fuel economy?
Anyway the body is fixed but I decided that I'm poor and couldn't afford a new Tanabe so I just bought pipes and run them from the Resonators to a tip. No mufflers.
After that I replaced the diz cap and rotor (Waiting on VCG, plugs and wires)
It seems my fuel econ went down? Possible? I put my Enkei rims back on (17x8 and chrome with 95% tread on Toyo Proxes tires, and I know they weigh more than stock rims, but not much.
Also, are the stock plug wires 5MM. I just won a new set of Autolite plug wires last week from Ebay and they say 7MM.
Is there a night and day difference between oiled and fouled out plugs and leaky VCG after I put new NGK's in (coming soon) as pertaining to fuel economy?
04-11-08, 03:46 PM
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I've read this a few times...someone replaces their cap, rotors, and wires and inexplicably their gas mileage plummets. I recently did the same, but my mileage didn't get worse...it just stayed sucky like it had already been 
320 miles to a full 20gal tank of gas.
320 miles to a full 20gal tank of gas.
04-12-08, 09:55 AM
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I haven't replaced the plugs and wires.
The only thing I can think of is that the cap doesn't have as thick of spark posts as the Toyota one. That shouldn't be though
The only thing I can think of is that the cap doesn't have as thick of spark posts as the Toyota one. That shouldn't be though
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