[Roadsters] MPG good?

[Ronnie Day]

Our original 2000, bought new in the spring of '70, was our only car for
most of the next year. Bone stock, I remember it regularly getting in the
high 20 mpg range, on premium leaded.  Most of my daily driving was a
straight 35 mile commute on I-35 between Fort Worth and Denton. On longer
road trips we'd get in the low 30s.

We bought our first 510, a 4-door, the next spring. It was stock except for
a set of Michelin radials. It didn't take me long to swap out the OE steel
wheels for a set of 5 1/2 x 13 gloss black Corvair rims and Baby Moons. The
combo looked pretty good against the '71 orange paint. I seem to recall the
510 regularly getting in the low 20s, but that was with a lower compression
ratio than the Roadster.

Gas was in the mid to high 20 cents range, with premium usually a couple of
cents higher than regular!

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Gordon Glasgow <gsglasgow at comcast.net>
wrote:

> (Getting onto this thread very late)
>
> When I was driving my 2000 on a daily basis, I typically got about 20 mpg
> around town. This was a built U20 (cam, higher compression, Mikunis, 3.89
> diff).
>
> The best documented highway mileage I ever got was once when I drove from
> Seattle to Hood River, OR, a known distance of 240 miles with virtually no
> elevation change. I filled the tank 2 blocks before I got on the freeway,
> drove there at about 70 mph, and filled the tank immediately upon getting
> off the freeway. It took 6.3 gallons. 240/6.3 = 38 mpg!
>
> With the cam I had, it was just coming well into the power band at 70 mph
> in
> 5th, so I hardly had to use any throttle to maintain that speed.
>
> Gordon Glasgow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Datsun-roadsters [mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Graeme S.
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 2:12 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Roadsters] MPG good?
>
> Seeing as though the list is listless atm, here is a question.
> I recently did an economy check on my G15 SP310 and got 28mpg or 10l/100k
> Is
> that typical?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Graeme S.
>
> nissanman.shutterfly.com
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