Re: V8 Fuel Mileage

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom:

62 Ambo V8 (automatic) had the option of two different
axles:

2.87  and 3.15

Reference:  1962 TSM

Joe Fulton
Salinas CA
--- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 dsoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone actually built a power/mileage
> combination they would like to comment on?
> 
> My 1962 Ambassador, with 327 and Flush-O-Manic, got
> 18, 19 mpg at
> 65-70mph. It had some absurdly low axle, I don't
> recall what (in
> the 2's).  It turned under 2000 rpm in the 60's
> (mph)! I lived in
> Mass. at the time, the car was from Colorado, and I
> discovered the
> reason for the silly axle on my first cross-country
> road trip
> (1976, to Bremerton WA). Came in real handy on Route
> 80!
> 
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