[Roadsters] MPG, mine is baddd (as well!)

[Tim .]

I am getting around 15 mph--if I am lucky. But then again I run almost 13/1
compression, 40mm Webers and have lead lined driving shoes...

> From: Fergus.OFarrell at ngc.com
> To: datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net
> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 19:34:36 +0000
> Subject: [Roadsters] MPG, mine is baddd
>
> 4th in a 4 speed is same as 4th in a 5 speed, 1:1 ratio.
>
> My mileage has always been pretty crap, like near 20mpg with mileage under
> recording approx. 15%, so I am somewhere around 23 or so.
>
> These reports of engine swaps getting close to or over 30 are getting me
> moving down the path....
> Due to SU's in semi-bad tune?  Yes, I am wearing that merit badge.
> Carrying too many tools in the trunk?  Guilty as charged.  But I band them
> down well so I can take corners at far too high a speed and not do body
damage
> from the inside.
>
> Fergus O
> 69 2000