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440 gas millage #3096063
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Ok boys and girls what’s the best millage you’ve ever gotten out of a 440 past and present? AND how did you do it. I’m planning on using a 74 stock low compression one in my Lil Red truck. I’ll try to make a OD trans work too with the 3.55 rear

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14 mpg with my '71 Barracuda, 3.23 gears and Holley 750 vacuum secondary. 3.23 gears.

11 mpg with my '63 330. 505", 850 DP and 3.54 gears.


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10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.

Re: 440 gas millage [Re: cudaman1969] #3096067
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I have never had a 440 that got more than 15 miles per gallon, but that is probably because I have a heavy right foot. whistling

My current 440, 500 hp and EFI, 4:10 5sp gets about 12 MPG around town driving with some highway thrown in.

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Re: 440 gas millage [Re: cudaman1969] #3096092
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I’m sure you know, the low compression is probably gonna cost you some.

Best I got was 18 or so, almost all highway. 1968 Charger, Holley 3310, A-833, 2.94 gears.


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Back in1970 this dude that was hanging out at the car spots had a 69 Charger RT claimed he got 18-19 on highway. Claimed he worked for Chrysler and was some type of engineer from Detroit area. Never thought much about what he said until now. Gas millage didn’t mean much then when 260 was $.36 a gallon.

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On any of the 440 C bodies I owned . . . best was 15mpg on hiway. Pretty much all had 3:23, stock 70 440 . . .

Re: 440 gas millage [Re: cudaman1969] #3096108
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Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Back in1970 this dude that was hanging out at the car spots had a 69 Charger RT claimed he got 18-19 on highway. Claimed he worked for Chrysler and was some type of engineer from Detroit area. Never thought much about what he said until now. Gas millage didn’t mean much then when 260 was $.36 a gallon.


I can believe it. On a long trip back in the day I got 20 or so one way and then 18 or so on the return

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Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Back in1970 this dude that was hanging out at the car spots had a 69 Charger RT claimed he got 18-19 on highway. Claimed he worked for Chrysler and was some type of engineer from Detroit area. Never thought much about what he said until now. Gas millage didn’t mean much then when 260 was $.36 a gallon.



Just as a point of reference, that $0.36 per gallon in 1970 is now the equivalent of $2.84 per gallon today.

So, not as much of a difference between then and now as you would first think.

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i'd have to say 10-14 depending on city or highway driving. 3.23 geared b-bodies with torqueflites. i don't believe any of the big numbers; engines are just too inefficient, and who's trying to correct those old speedometers where the factory had them running fast.

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I've got a stock '77 440 in my wagon. When it was my daily, 12-14 (mostly city) was the norm. 14-15 was the norm strictly hwy but it did hit 16 a couple of times.

As I've mentioned numerous times, in a truck I used to have I swapped in a stock 440 to replace the truck's 360 and got better all around mileage. shock laugh2


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It don't surprise me that much of anything could be at a 360 for mileage. Every one I've had has been a gas sucking pig.

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Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Ok boys and girls what’s the best millage you’ve ever gotten out of a 440 past and present? AND how did you do it. I’m planning on using a 74 stock low compression one in my Lil Red truck. I’ll try to make a OD trans work too with the 3.55 rear


This is proof that there IS such thing as a dumb question.










Just kidding..........kind of.

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Originally Posted by Fat_Mike
Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Ok boys and girls what’s the best millage you’ve ever gotten out of a 440 past and present? AND how did you do it. I’m planning on using a 74 stock low compression one in my Lil Red truck. I’ll try to make a OD trans work too with the 3.55 rear


This is proof that there IS such thing as a dumb question.










Just kidding..........kind of.

Ok. What’s the dumb part?

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It was many years ago and I was young, but my Father had a 440 powered C-body with a functioning lean burn system. I recall that he was very impressed with that big engine's economy in such a large car. I think he was getting 14 or 15 mpg with it. What ever the exact number was, it was several mpg better than any of his previous big blocks. I don't recall why, but he did not keep that car very long.

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Could easily pull more overdrive gear. .82 was a mistake. Pulled the original 3.23 and installed the 2.76
Steady highway gets 18mpg

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Stock '72 440, TQ, vac advance, 3.23's in a '70 E-body gave solid 16+ in mostly highway cruises keeping it under 70.

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i kind of figured the smiles per gallon were the measuring system for cost. biggrin
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Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Ok boys and girls what’s the best millage you’ve ever gotten out of a 440 past and present? AND how did you do it. I’m planning on using a 74 stock low compression one in my Lil Red truck. I’ll try to make a OD trans work too with the 3.55 rear


If mileage from a 440 is your primary concern, you will have to buy some KB quench pad pistons for open chamber heads, or build it to zero deck with some dish pistons to run withclose chamber heads.

There is some good info on the site about using the KB pistons and the resultant jump in gas mileage.

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Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Ok. What’s the dumb part?


Not dumb, just my particular sense of humor relating to gas mileage and a 440 cubic inch motor.
Didn't intend to get you off topic...

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Originally Posted by Fat_Mike
Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Ok. What’s the dumb part?


Not dumb, just my particular sense of humor relating to gas mileage and a 440 cubic inch motor.
Didn't intend to get you off topic...

NO problem thought I was missing something, we good. For the post above what about the 70 6 pac piston with a 452 head vs the way down in cylinder 74 piston (8 to 1) I have the whole external balanced assembly I could use.

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