You ever run out of gas ?

[MBTN]

When my car is down to around 1/4 tank and I make a hard enough left, It'll starve for fuel. Scared my shitless the first time it happened as I was... ahem... doing some spirited driving.

[ghostguy6]

Originally Posted by tman2093

Gas, I don't need gas. My car runs on solar power.

Not really. The Buick begins to sputter under gentle braking at 1/4 tank, so I kind of need to keep it full.

Same with mine, and when its really cold out I need to keep it at almost 1/2 a tank or it wont idle properly Ive only ever run out of gas in the lawn mower, that things a fucking gas hog

[HogieGT-R]

B12 (my old sentra) didn't have a working fuel gauge, so we measured it by the trip odometer....every 180 miles, we'd fill it up....never failed
the dummy light has only come on once, but other than that i keep my tank full

[dugie6551]

Originally Posted by Robs71Nova

When I first did the bigblock swap into my 71 Nova the gas gauge wasn't working. I went to the gas station and filled the car up (13 gallon tank) I clocked it off on the odometer and I had went EXACTLY 85 miles when the car stalled out on me. I thought to myself "There is no damn way my gas mileage is this bad, I CAN'T be out of gas already." But infact, I had ran out of gas, getting a WHOPPING 6.5 miles per gallon... Ya those were the days (this happend 4 months ago).

Rob

"No replacement for displacement !!!"

[MBTN]

My light doesn't even work. The level sender must be busted in the tank My car takes 18.5 gallons though. Yikes.

[RickwithaTbird]

maybe the light is burnt out.

and about the nova... you miscalculated the gas mileage. Its actually 6.53846154 miles per gallon. Just so you know. jk

[speediva]

I only ran out of gas once... on my bike... damn thing didn't have a gas gauge. I now use the trip to keep track of fueling concerns.

The car RARELY goes below 1/4 tank.

[SiGNAL748]

I fill up at 1/8th tank.

[Robs71Nova]

Originally Posted by dugie6551

"No replacement for displacement !!!"

This happened when everything was out of tune, when I had JUST got the swap done. Now after having the carb tuned properly to suit the new intake, im getting ALMOST 10 MPG. Not too bad for a car that is pushing slightly over 500 horsepower..

Rob

[Polygon]

Nope, I've never run out of gas. Doing that can be bad for your injectors anyhow.

[ec437]

seeing as how I'm a poor high school student driving my parent's gas hoggin V8 lexus, I rarely put gas in unless the little orange light comes on at me. The farthest I've ever had to go with the orange light on is 45-ish miles. I was really not wanting to run out of gas on that one; I had forgotten my cell phone at home

BTW, MTBN, you think 18 gallons is bad? try 23.

[KaotiKCamaro5]

ran out of gas one time going to school, i was already running late and i figured i had enough to get there and home (i only live 3 miles away) but i figured wrong, ended up missing class and my dad was pissed because he had to bring me gas.

[dugie6551]

Originally Posted by Robs71Nova

This happened when everything was out of tune, when I had JUST got the swap done. Now after having the carb tuned properly to suit the new intake, im getting ALMOST 10 MPG. Not too bad for a car that is pushing slightly over 500 horsepower..

Rob

Does that mean you can "skip" a gas station when out for a tour? Or do you still have to stop at "every" gas station?

(Been there, done that !!!) S10 truck + 350 motor + heavy right foot = getting to know every gas station cashier by name!!!

[Ridenour]

I've never run out of gas. I always keep mine no lower then 1/8th tank. But my fuel light comes on at like 20 miles left I think, so I really could afford to run it down a lot lower. I'm just worried about sediments and shit getting sucked in.

[Andydg]

I've run out of gas like 5 times...Once in my dad's truck going into town to get gas it ran out by the high school and I coasted into town and pulled into the gas station only to realize I was on the wrong side of the pump, that was pretty embarassing. The other 4 times were on my dirt bike out on gravel roads on my way home from riding all day. 3 times I stalled in front of someone house and I just asked them if I could have some gas and since they're all farmers they got the huge tanks out by their barns that only cost like $.95 a gallon. But he other 2 times I was litterally in the middle of nowhere but I had a cell phone and just called my buddies and they brought me some gas.