What's the best fuel mileage you ever got in your Charger?

[Rolling_Thunder]

Hey guys - i know its not a charger but i drove my boss's Superbird to an eerie average of 28mpg...   

[hemi-hampton]

I probably only get 5 mpg. Plus $5.00 a gallon for the 110 high octane Sunoco Turbo Blue. Gets exspensive to go anywhere, the 360 Magnum Ram Truck not good either. LEON.

[whitehatspecial]

I calculate fuel mileage when I drive my '05 F150 (and it sucks BTW), but when I get in my Charger fuel mileage is the furthest thing from my mind. When that motor barks through the headers and the speedo climbs quickly, I think only about why I have a muscle car. It's fun. Screw what it costs.

[Brightyellow69rtse]

same here whitehat my ram gets about 15ish but the charger i dunno and i dont care...Mike

[Old Moparz]

Seems to me, that anyone who claims to actually get anything above 17 or 18 highway with a big block in a B-Body Charger, might need to get new batteries for their calculator. I'm not talking about one of those Omni/Horizon/Shelby things either.

Looks like the fictitious MPG ratings on the window stickers. 

[PocketThunder]

Seems to me, that anyone who claims to actually get anything above 17 or 18 highway with a big block in a B-Body Charger, might need to get new batteries for their calculator. I'm not talking about one of those Omni/Horizon/Shelby things either.

Looks like the fictitious MPG ratings on the window stickers. 

Yep, sound like a 318 will get you close to 20 and a big block is stuck around 10..

[Nacho-RT74]

I didn't calculate ( don't need either since is not really a headache here ). I get more less 450-80 km road trip ( around 285 miles ) with a tank.

400, TQ, 3:23

[AKcharger]

16 MPG avg highway with 383 4 bbl and 3.23's ( also used 2.76's...no differance in milage but ran a lot better at 70 MPH)

[bull]

Seems to me, that anyone who claims to actually get anything above 17 or 18 highway with a big block in a B-Body Charger, might need to get new batteries for their calculator. I'm not talking about one of those Omni/Horizon/Shelby things either.

Looks like the fictitious MPG ratings on the window stickers. 

Well, it was a one-time thing. The oddity pointed out in the thread title and in my first post here was that it was a bit of an anomaly. I sustained a very high rate of speed for a long time (roughly 4.5 hrs.) and the fuel economy was the best I ever got.

[Paul G]

The best I ever got?? How about all I ever get. 7.5 mpg. No highway, ever. All stop and go, mostly go.

We are running the first leg of thew Power Tour in a few weeks. I will check back in with highwy mpg. Thats if I can afford to drive it back home. Reg gas here is $3.49, 91 is about $3.75. Lets see here, Home to Cleveland Ohio, 375 miles. Cleveland to kalamazoo MI, 260 miles. Kalamazoo to home, 125 miles, for a total of   760 miles. 760 miles/10 mpg (I hope) = 76 gallons of gas * $3.75 per gallon =  $285 just for gas for the weekend. I need to pick up some overtime!

[69_500]

Well call it what you want, but I averaged 18.3 mpg during the last trip I made in the 500 over to St. Louis for the Monster Mopar. And that included running out to the Winged Warriors get together that weekend as well. Not a whole lot of in town driving, mainly highway. And that is with a 440, AT, with 3.55 gears in the rear.

[Lostsheep]

16mpg with the 4barreled 318/904 and a 2:76 rear gear I believe. And thats crusin bout 70-75 on my way to Arkansas. Once in Arkansas tryin to roll with traffic at like 80....my mpg went to about 14.

[472 R/T SE]

The blue car w/ a 4 gear and 3:54's got around 11-12 on the highway.
My purple car got right at 13 with the wedge and 3 carbs, 3:55's.  Now with the Hemi and two 650 Eddies, it's real close to 13's, high 12 if I remember correctly same rear.  I'm anxious to see what the Overdrive does.
While I agree that it shouldn't matter what you're getting, it doesn't hurt to keep track just for shlts and giggles.

[WheresMyCharger]

My '69 Charger 318 got 22 mpg on a road trip to Va beach, My '69 Charger 440 4 speed with 3:23 got around 12, back when I used to drive it 30 miles to work.

[rt green]

sounds like time to get a gear venders unit

[autodynamics]

YOU GUYS NEED TO GET AN OVERDRIVE UNIT...you will love your cars even more!!!!

[jwilk01]

When we went down to TN last year we were running about 20 mpg and that was with a 440, 727, 625 cfm carb and 3.23 gears.  I was pretty happy about it.  Usually get about 250-300 miles per tank.

Later
Josh

[Bob T]

Old Thread Resurrection. Just had a really good tune done, carb floats and mixture set correctly and dizzy recurved . Mild 440 auto 3:23 15.60mpg or 5.52km/litre,  18.1 L/100 km . Was only getting 14.3mpg a few weeks ago so that is a great improvement , more miles in every tank now,sweet. Was fully laden though and could only do average 55 due to heavy traffic but a good result after the tune spend.

[Back N Black]

I'm not sure what i get, but its comparable to driving my 08 Dodge Ram 4X4 with a 5.7 liter.
The Charger is a lot more fun to drive.

[Kern Dog]

Odd subject to some, but increasing efficiency when fuel costs so much just makes sense.
In October, I drove north from Van Nuys home to  hasSacramento and tunred a best of 12.9 on one fill-up. Sounds crappy intil you consider the car and how it is equipped:
70 Charger with a 493 BB, Edelbrock heads, old school MP '509 cam, 850 VS carb and a 727 with Gear Vendors .78 overdrive followed by a 3.91 diff. The car has 275 series tires up front and 295s out back, so rolling resistance is a factor. I drove much of the trip with the windows down too. I think that with some tuning, I may squeeze 14 mpg with the current combo.
I'm looking into a cam swap to a more modern grind. I have already begun installing a wideband A/F ratio guage to monitor my numbers and to help me optimize things. Who knows... I may crack 16 mpg, a 12.0 quarter and 1.0g on the skidpad....

[Ghoste]

There was this one time after a part day at the drag strip that it didn't require my burning of any fuel in the Charger to get it home.  Not sure that qualifies as best mileage I ever got though. 

[marshallfry01]

YOU GUYS NEED TO GET AN OVERDRIVE UNIT...you will love your cars even more!!!!

What motor is in your car? And what rear gear? 25 mpg sounds great!!!

[Bob T]

There was this one time after a part day at the drag strip that it didn't require my burning of any fuel in the Charger to get it home.  Not sure that qualifies as best mileage I ever got though.  

Im sure its not a trailer Queen Ghoste , So it went home on a transporter, damn, the wallet takes a hiding again               Actually Red, I reckon thats not bad at all considering the power it makes, g.v. must help as well

[Ghoste]

Actually an acquaintance from my hometown who was there as a spectator offered to tow me home behind his car with a rope.  It didn't cost a cent but it was an hour behind a rope.

[BlueSS454]

I'd be lucky to be getting 11-12 out of mine and it's just a bone stock as Chrysler built it 440.