Horsepower with mileage options

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I did a quick calculation. At my gas price up here in Canada which is ridiculous. If i put 5000 miles a season at 14 mpg would cost me about $1600.00 now if I increased my fuel mileage to 25% which is pretty optimistic i would 17.5 mpg now costing about $1250.00 saving $350 a year. If you spent a $1000 take 3 year to break even but the things we're talking about could easily cost $3000-6000 9-18 years to pay back.

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I did not even think about it like that! Got so caught up in, "can it be done vs cost to do it" that the long term didn't even cross my mind. So, really then we should be thinking about how to get more power out without sacrificing existing mpg, lol. Gas prices in my area are on average $2.71 per gallon. And I would guess they put about 5000 miles a year like you said. So, yeah $1000.00 in fuel for paying off 3k in parts to make better mpg. The things we do to see if we can.