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MPG '72 142 automatic 140-160

posted by  72142s on  Wed Jan 4 09:07 CST 2012
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What kind of gas mileage can I expect to get on this car? Right now I'm only getting about 14 MPG city. Of course that is with some idling/tuning time thrown in and the car is an automatic with power steering, but yeesh, that's bad. I was hoping to use this thing as a daily driver. My timing is set at about 12 degrees and carbs seem to be working well/smoothly. Would bringing the timing up some help? Don't know what else to do here.






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