Well, as it turns out I am not selling the RS. My sister bought my Grand Am off me (she needed a car bad), and I was off to find the new toy

The second I saw it, I KNEW I had to get it...a '97 30th Anniversary Z28. For those of you who may not know what one is, that's the white one with the Hugger Orange stripes, with white 5 spoke wheels, and white leather seats. Yes, it is COMPLETELY pimpin', absolutely gorgeous and FAST as hell.

The thing that amazes me though is the gas mileage. My first tank was better than the best tank ever with the RS...26 MPG. Can anyone explain why the hell 2.8's get mileage so out of whack with their EPA ratings?? Why is that the Z, rated at 17 and 26, gets 3-4 MPG better than the RS rated at 19 and 27. And yes, I drive them both the same...smooth starts, not going over 3 grand except on a rare occasion, and a fair amount of open road driving. So what gives???

I dunno what's up with the v6 milage.. mine was crappy as hell until this past week.. for some odd reason this tank is consuming all of nothing.. 3 days of normal driving that usually sucks 3/8 of a tank sucked not quite 1/8.. The only thing I can link to it is this is the first tank of 87 octane I've put in in a long while.. 92 up until 2 months ago, then 89.. but this tank is just going on *forever*


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'86 Camaro SC, black /w silver racing stripes
2.8l MPFI/700r4 /w special 2nd gear delete option
In search of new v8 engine & transmission, now contemplating t5 swap to get me out of this mess.
MSD coil, Accel 8mm wires, SplitFire plugs, Gabriel hijackers, possible performance chip I don't know about.. gotta crack open the ECM and check sometime

dont know why everyones gas mileage sucks with the v-6. When i had my 3.1 in my 92' camaro i used to drive all the way to NJ englishtown raceway park and back to new york,flusing with 5 gallons of gas. Maybe it just me.

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92' camaro
New 305 block TPI conversion, Flat top pistons,Bore over .30 Forged parts all around,Edelbrock intake,ported plennum,ported corvette alluminum heads, accel cam,52mm throttle bodie, SLP runners Home aid cold air induction, Air foil,ford SVO 19lb injectors,fuel regulator,cloys timing chain, comp alluminum roller rocker arms and pushrods MSD 8.5 mm wires, bosch plattinum plugs, hypertech cap & rotor and coil, Edelbrock TES headers, free flowing catalytic converter and a 3 inch force II flowmaster exhaust system, and a 3 inch cutout,Zoom multi friction clutch, T-5 tranny,billenstien shocks&struts.
Soon to come!!!
Procharger system 12lbs o boost.
New paint job(hawaiin orchid purple)Cast alluminum ZR1 rims w/ 275 tires.
Favorite quote: "where ever u go, there u are"

Other car;
1971 plymouth Duster
Mods:340,edelbrock victor jr. intake, 650 4 barrel holley, heddman headers,40 series dual flowmasters, cold air intake,4:10 gears, just got a new paint job and cragar rims with 315 tires in the back.
:Yeah its not a chevy but damn how many 71' dusters have u seen in the streets.

Well personally in my V6 I get close to 24 MPG(280-290) in the city and over 32(320-350) on short highway, clear open highway running I get closer to 430 some od miles to the 12 gallon tank. Then again on clear highway I also run over 80 MPH....

Dang, that's some good mileage man. i get like 20 hwy

Yeah it is not that bad...it helps when making the close to 1000 mile trip between my home town of carbondale Illinois to Va Beach Va when I was in the navy....The trip is supposed (supposed) to take 12 hours roughly...I typically did it after the 1st of 6 trips in 9 1/2...What can I say after Va there are no troppers untill Illinois and even then they do not care as long as you are under 90....So between Va and Il I do 90-100...damn gov. won't let me go over 115 so...

I get about 25mpg on average.

sweet car man, definately "pimpin". Do you have any 1/4 mi. times? Just curious