Hi folks,

The actual mileage was unremarkable, just 54.5 MPG, but it was for the whole 11.3 gallons. This tank included six hill climb tests.

Bob Wilson

 

Attaboy Bob

My best was 531 on 10.6. I *knew* I should have run that tank dry!

Can rarely get 10 gallons into the old beast anymore. KaleCoAuto still does not sell bladder stretchers. Edit: they do have radiator insulators though. Hmmm.......

DAS

 

Maybe if you cut out a little extra weight by using KaleCoAuto's cross drilled brake lines you could get a few tenths on an mpg more.
The farthest I've gone so far with my '02 is 524.0 at 11.1, I've had other tanks with better mpg but filled up sooner.

Mike

 

I'm geting closer. 550.0 on 10.9

Mike

 

wow! jeez and here I was boasting about my 800km+ tank and 59mpg in my other thread haha.

Congrats!

 

Hi,

Actually the congratulations go to Toyota for their outstanding engineering. I had a simple, 'sit down' job. <GRINS>

I just enjoy sharing 'lessons learned' about how this remarkable vehicle works. Over time, my focus has been on and remains maximizing the vehicle performance by understanding the engineering. It is a lot easier to achieve high mileage when you have the engineering 'cheat sheet.'

BTW, Ken, Wayne, Hobbit, Graham and a host of others pioneered most of the work and I'm just following in their footsteps.

Bob Wilson

 

Toyota should pay Mr. Bob a trip to Japan design center or a prototype of next generation of Prius for all the experimental works and studys he has compiled....

 

I'd rather see some Toyota engineers show up at Hybridfest or other gatherings hybrid gatherings. If we could only get a hybrid event scheduled to coincide with an SAE meeting . . .

Bob Wilson

 

Bob,
If you plan it... they will come.

 

Almost! 583.5, and all I could squeeze in to the tank was 10.4 gallons. I guess I could have gone a little further, but I was already getting nervous with the last pip blinking most of the day and knowing the next gas station was around 20 miles away.

Mike