Lightning Gas MPG

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just curious, would you Lightning owners not recommend your trucks as daily drivers. I am considering one whenever my car sells. I really love the truck but being automatic and supercharged, i could imagine 8 MPG easily. My friend would drive his dad's 04 Dodge 1500 sport with the Hemi and when he floored it, it got 9-11 MPG, and that's N/A. Also, they need 91+ Octane right?
Pully, Intake, Exhaust should = Mid 12's?

 

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95 yellow 5 0 said:

just curious, would you Lightning owners not recommend your trucks as daily drivers. I am considering one whenever my car sells. I really love the truck but being automatic and supercharged, i could imagine 8 MPG easily. My friend would drive his dad's 04 Dodge 1500 sport with the Hemi and when he floored it, it got 9-11 MPG, and that's N/A. Also, they need 91+ Octane right?
Pully, Intake, Exhaust should = Mid 12's?

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Unfortunately we don't have a lot of Lightning owners here on Stangnet, at least not very vocal ones.

If I remember correctly the Lightning was rated at 12/16 MPG City/Hwy in STOCK TRIM.

Yes the Lightning requires premium fuel and yes a pulley, intake & exhaust Lightning is capable of 12 second ET's. As for whether it would make a good daily driver... only your wallet knows the answer to that question.

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I think that this falls into the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" catagory. Or, if you're like me, the "there's more to life than gas mileage" catagory.

 

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Yeah, I suppose I'll cross lightning off the list of potential new vehicles. a 6 speed would have helped a little. I have to commute to school and back twice in one day, twice a week. not too practical then huh. nice truck. one day...

 

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SVTPerformance.com has a fairly active Lighting forum. You might want to ask the question over there.

 

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Mine gets about 14ish. Stay out of the boost most of the time to get decent mpg's but you will find that a very hard thing to do! L's are *very* easy to make 12sec. capable. spyne is right though on the svtp thing...

I say buy one.

Heres a pic of mine:

 

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yours is pretty sick. i won't have much $$ to mod anything i get next. it'll have to be over time.

I'm kinda a horrible situation with my car right now and don't know what to do. I'm considering Mach 1, 03 Cobra, Lightning or randomly a CLK430. I need to get rid of my car asap or trade it in but i'm gonna take a $3k loss either way....

 

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Why do you need to get rid of the Cobra?

That is exactley what I was going to buy (98 black Cobra) but ended up with the L instead. Very happy I went this route. I understand about money too, I have 3 kids and Im tryin to buy a house so... Yeah wont be doin much for a bit.

 

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Owning a Lightning and worrying about fuel economy seem like contradictory concepts to me.

 

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I always get about 14 mpg in my Lightning and thats mostly highway miles. But of course, I never do the speed limit. Also, its my daily driver.

A pulley, intake, and a tune will get a Lightning in the 12's easly.

 

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posm6s said:

I always get about 14 mpg in my Lightning and thats mostly highway miles. But of course, I never do the speed limit. Also, its my daily driver.

A pulley, intake, and a tune will get a Lightning in the 12's easly.

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12 seconds or 12 mpg?

 

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Both.