GOT YA ON THE KICKDOWN ARM,THINGS WORK BETTER WHEN THEY FIT RIGHT...LIKE A QUADRAJET WHERE A QUADRAJET BELONGS

DAVE

My Car and Old Man are in Fontana. I actually live in Ely, NV (Silver State Challenge sound familiar?)  Hence the reason the car is taking sooo long to get together. Father/son project that happens when we live 500 miles apart. 

On mythbusters, the one where they installed the calibrated fuel flow meter they ran the same strip of highway on cruise control at the same speed for the same amount of time and measured actual fuel consumption in real time then calculated MPG from the fuel flow, time and distance. I feel this test was as valid as any test could possibly get.

I just bought an '89 Buick Electra wagon last July with a bone-stock 307. As I was driving it to West Virginia from Maine over Thanksgiving, I decided to do all the normal tune-up stuff in a meager attempt to help out the already dismal gas mileage. I went to replace the air filter, and lo and behold, upon popping the air cleaner lid, I found that the previous owner had done me the service of equipping the Q-jet with a Tornado. For yuks and giggles, I figured I'd leave it in and measure the gas mileage on the way down, then yank it on the way back and check the mileage.

  End result: way down, 16.7 average mpg. Way back, 18.1 mpg. Either the wagon was just happy to be going home, or that Tornado ain't worth a damn.

Also, note of merit: ain't nothin' that makes a 140-horse Olds 307 happy about hauling a 5,000 pound loaded Buick wagon up and down West Virginia hills.

my $.02