unnoticedtrails

i'm going to get a new muffler for mine soon extra burble!

I-70 west

I just got this in an e-mail, thought I`d pass it along:


Gas Pumping Tips from someone in the Petroleum pipeline business!!

I've been in petroleum pipeline business for about 31 years, currently
working for the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline here in San Jose, CA. We deliver
about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period from the pipe line; one day
it's diesel, the next day it's jet fuel and gasoline. We have 34
storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons. Here
are some tricks to help you get your money's worth.

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature
is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage
tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the
gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up
in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not
exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and
temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other
petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is
temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the
amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for
businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at
their pumps .

2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time
you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the
tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be
transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank .

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty),
because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and
gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline
storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a
barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing
evaporation .)
4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery
settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not
squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be
pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you
are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as
a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been
metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline
contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground
tank so you're getting less gas for your money .

Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'.

Glacial

Side-gapping your plugs is usually good for a mpg or two and a few horses, and best of all it's free!

07V6STANG

What's "side gapping your plugs?" I know you are talking about spark plugs and the gap....but the side part throws me off.

07V6STANG

Ask your Ford dealer you want a Ford Cold Air Kit with larger mass airflow sensor housing and Ford Racing performance calibration. I know they offer them on the '08's. It states in the 2008 Mustang Brochure;
"Ford Racing offers street-legal performance packs for your Mustang V6, Mustang GT and Shelby GT500 that can be installed by your Ford Dealer. When dealer-installed, these packs and parts are now backed by a Ford Racing Limited Warranty."


I have duals on my car and it shouldn't be a problem with warranty unless something goes wrong and they prove it was the exhaust set-up that caused the problem.
I haven't taken it in yet to be serviced, when I do, I'll let you all know if anything is said.

poldrv

Add a Magnaflow Dual Exhaust kit #16605. Your gas gauge will hardly move. A cold air induction kit kelps also. As long as your new exhausts are catbacks you will not have a warranty problem.