Celica's Fuel Economy, MPG and 100km/L Options

[The_enD]

3k at 100km/h

[blackliftback]

97 st limited edition. 222,222 miles the other day.

I can pull out 50+mpg if i really wanted to. Hypermiling anyone? I do it sometimes when i want to save for car parts. Lol

[danmumo]

What are some main factors that encourage MPG ? I know having good tires makes a big difference. With my 92 auto ST I would get 500kms/tank with stock 14 " and would get approximately 420kms/ tank with 17" rims and low profile tires. With my 95 gt I don't like letting get under half of tank but can get approximately 350kms/ half a tank in the city.

[blackliftback]

What are some main factors that encourage MPG ? I know having good tires makes a big difference. With my 92 auto ST I would get 500kms/tank with stock 14 " and would get approximately 420kms/ tank with 17" rims and low profile tires. With my 95 gt I don't like letting get under half of tank but can get approximately 350kms/ half a tank in the city.

You are actually traveling faster on bigger rims than what the speedometer says. Therefore really getting more kms/ tank than you think.

[onnaj]

When i use my 17" rims with 225/45 tires my speedometer gives me the actual GPS speed. When i drive 120 km/h it's really 120 km/h. When i use my winter rims 15" with 195/60 (or so) tires then i drive about 130 km/h on tacho which is a 120 km/h gps speed.

With the 4AGE 20V blacktop my mpg is the same as with the 7AFE about 28+ mpg with 17". This is mainly short distances and 120 km/h on the highway and sometimes take it to 8200 rpm . The best mpg i ever did was with the blacktop. A 350 km drive and it was almost 36.5 mpg!

I'm really curious if the blacktop will be even better on mpg when my C160 gearbox is in

This post has been edited by onnaj: Nov 6, 2013 - 3:57 AM

[ILoveMySilly97]

1997 Celica - 1998 Celica:
----------------------------- (L/100KMS) --- (MPG) ----
ENG.. | TRANSMISSION | CITY - HWY | CITY - HWY
5SFE | MANUAL .......| 10.6 - 7.6 |_ 27 - 37

Was this a self test? Because I have a 5sfe with a s54 tranny and I get around 22 in the city and 27 highway. Also this original paper info I found in my glove box seems accurate to what I typically get also.

[955SFE]

I get an average of 25-27mpg. That's with 70%city and 30%highway. City sucks balls in Los Angeles, a lot of stop and go and idling.

[Caleb]

My GT4 gets around 28mpg during mixed driving but if im driving hard i will average about 18mpg

the only mods i have are a apexi exhaust and sard intake everything elses is stock

This post has been edited by Caleb: Nov 22, 2013 - 3:31 AM

[The_enD]

My GT4 gets around 28mpg during mixed driving but if im driving hard i will average about 18mpg

the only mods i have are a apexi exhaust and sard intake everything elses is stock

Awesome.
I wonder what a 3SGTE swap will do, you know, without the added strain and weight of the 4x4.

[thymeclock]

I get an average of 25-27mpg. That's with 70%city and 30%highway. City sucks balls in Los Angeles, a lot of stop and go and idling.

LOL! Come drive in NYC if you think city driving in LA is bad.

I typically get about 22 MPG in driving that is entirely in city-like traffic mostly in the lower gears with an A/T. On the hwy it's closer to 30 MPG.

But mine's a 'vert that's driven only in summer, and always with the top down, unless it's raining.

[Terzin1]

I don't think these numbers reflect the convertibles. My 95 vert gets 25 mpg average. I filled the tank up on two separate occasions and noted the mileage at full and at empty.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the vert is the heaviest of the bunch as well.

[Special_Edy]

My 94 gt got 32.5 on cruise control when I drove to florida. The motor died 500 miles later

[BonzaiCelica]

3SGE Beams:

I got 29mpg combined city and highway. In the city I never went over 2600 rpm and highway never went over 3600 rpm

This was all done with 14 gal of gas with 410miles

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Mar 7, 2014 - 1:06 AM

[anixie]

I get roughly 40 MPG (620 km from tank full to tank empty) or about 7.5 liter/100 km. 7AFE with 70.000 real km on the counter

[blumontag]

My 94 ST manual with 300,000 miles gets 30 mpg in the winter, with about 50/50 highway to city miles. Rest of the year I still get about 34 mpg.

[VavAlephVav]

my 5spd GT with the 5sfe gets around 25 mpg. I get to 1/2 tank at about 200 miles, and the light comes on around 325 miles, and it takes about 13 gallons to fill it back up. I keep thinking that I am going to drive around and not accelerate hard and keep it below 3k rpm, and then I say to hell with it spin it all the way up anyway.
especially since I replaced the motor mounts, now I want to go around dumping the clutch as hard as I can just to be amazed by how much soother it is now.

however, what I have noticed is that the given size of the tank is 15.9 gallons. but I don't think the fuel gauge reads in a linear fashion. For if I got to 1/2 tank at 200 miles, I would get to E at 400 miles.
Instead the light comes on when it hits E with 3 gallons still left in the tank. I have filled it as soon as the light comes on many times and found it only needed less than 13 gallons to fill back up.
Once I actually needed to keep driving some 50 miles after the light came on, and I was quite sure I still had at least a gallon left.
So it's like there are 4 gallons for each of the First two quarters of the tank(by the fuel gauge), and about 2 1/2 gallons for each of the last two quarters of the fuel gauge.


This post has been edited by VavAlephVav: Mar 15, 2014 - 5:14 PM

[cardshark525]

I just got my first mileage back since I filled her up today. Got 336 miles to 13.8 gallons giving me 24.5 MPG.

This was probably 85% highway 15% city, however that doesn't mean the pedal wasn't to the floor on just about every on-ramp and here and there on the highway itself... lol.

If it was all highway and I WASN'T blasting up ramps I could see getting close to 30MPG.

This post has been edited by cardshark525: Mar 15, 2014 - 2:41 PM

[Box]

After two years of ownership averaged out 36 and sometimes saw low 40's with the 7A-FE/5-speed.

[cardshark525]

So just to update here for those that were interested in how a swap does:

70% City (and heavy foot) I got 19mpg.

95% Highway (and light foot) I got 28.2mpg. (However this 95% highway was on I-80 doing a steady 80MPH. I would anticipate around 32-33 if it was a 55 road and you were doing 55).


As always, your experience may vary.

[thymeclock]

I don't think these numbers reflect the convertibles. My 95 vert gets 25 mpg average. I filled the tank up on two separate occasions and noted the mileage at full and at empty.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the vert is the heaviest of the bunch as well.

Aerodymics matter with a vert. Also an automatic isn't a efficient as a manual. City driving is having a stop sign on every other corner, if not every corner. No remedy for that.