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2016 Golf R, DSG
🔧 BUILD Mook's 2016 Golf R | E85 and Typhoon powered
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Highway, upper 20s, I think Ive gotten into the 30s. Most of my driving is around town so mid 20s typically.
Honestly, I dont usually keep track. I filled up yesterday and I think I'm close to half a tank with just shy of 200 miles on it. I can double check real quick.
The best tank I got was when I was trying the least...I was in northern Michigan and people were just doing 90-100, so that's what I did too...ended up with ~34 on that tank. But I'm usually upper 20's and I drive from Palatine Rd to Lake Ave on 290 most days, and putz around town, but pretty rare as we just use the wife's car. Just go with the flow on 290 whatever that is 70-80.
Had I known I could get basically the same mileage in an R vs the GTI, I would've seriously reconsidered my buy....
Had I known I could get basically the same mileage in an R vs the GTI, I would've seriously reconsidered my buy....
Sounds good! I've done a resonator delete on my last 5 cars, but haven't done it to my GTI, despite having it for a year now.
As for mpg, on my GTI (2017 DSG) I get anywhere from 26-30mpg on my work commute (avg 30-40mph, lot stoplights). Doing anything over 75 mph seems to really hurt the highway mpg unless I'm trying to draft other cars. Best seems to be around 32-34 mpg on the highway, but it's easy to get it under 30mpg if I'm driving faster and more aggressively.
I'm hoping that these modifications that I recently did will help improve my mileage though
As for mpg, on my GTI (2017 DSG) I get anywhere from 26-30mpg on my work commute (avg 30-40mph, lot stoplights). Doing anything over 75 mph seems to really hurt the highway mpg unless I'm trying to draft other cars. Best seems to be around 32-34 mpg on the highway, but it's easy to get it under 30mpg if I'm driving faster and more aggressively.
I'm hoping that these modifications that I recently did will help improve my mileage though
I’ve averaged 28 over the life of my GTI calculating with Fuelly on every fill up. Anything over 70 and your mileage goes to shit. County roads that are 55 will get you great mileage.
Kensington may have gotten better mileage in Michigan from E0 fuel. Mine loves the E0 91. I did 35mpg on the way home from Wisconsin going 75ish once.
Kensington may have gotten better mileage in Michigan from E0 fuel. Mine loves the E0 91. I did 35mpg on the way home from Wisconsin going 75ish once.
This is precisely my experience.I’ve averaged 28 over the life of my GTI calculating with Fuelly on every fill up. Anything over 70 and your mileage goes to shit. County roads that are 55 will get you great mileage.
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Although lately I've been running an E30ish mixture (E85 with 93 octane) as it really reduces any knock (according to the Cobb AP), and the car pulls harder. This is with the latest Cobb Stage 1 revision that is not Ethanol specific. I do get about 2 mpg less using the E30 mixture.
I considered getting an actual E30 tune this year so I can run that specific map, but I don't really know the actual E content in the E85 pump near my house (says it may be 51-85%), and I don't want to mess with testing it every time. So it could be anywhere from E20 to E30 when I put in 3 gallons of E85 with 8 gallons of 93 (10% ethanol) according to this online calculator: http://www.wallaceracing.com/ethanol-mix-calc.php
Since this is my daily driver, I figure I'm safer just running a regular 93 octane tune, despite leaving some power on the table.
I tuned my car on e50, but as long as it’s between that and e25ish it’s still happy. Different car than yours of course, but as long as it’s close you should be fine. If it’s a canned tune it’s probably got WAY more safety built into it than the hack tune I came up with..lol
The flaps are always open in Sport. They are closed when cruising in D but will open when you hammer the throttle.
3ish?
CTS catted downpipe into test pipe into stock cat.
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