Impressed with MPG of used rig
We picked up a 2000 31M Bounder with the Ford V10 Chassis used a few months back. After some medical problems I decided to give it a shakedown cruise. The unit is 31' 4" and was moderately loaded. I ...
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D.E.Bishop wrote:
During May and June we drove our new to us 2002 Winnie with the F53/V-10 through Monument Valley up to Canyonlands and over to Ft Bragg and then up to Surfside Washington and back home to L.A. We towed the Vitara and over five weeks we averaged 7.5 MPG.
The rig is outfitted with the Banks Power pack and the trans has the Banks controller. As we approached Great Basin from the East we went up and down from lows of 2000 feet to highs around 7000 feet for what seemed like hours and hours, come to think of it, it was hours.
When we had the Bounder 27D w/the Chevy 454cid, we would get from 5 to 9 MPG pulling the sidekick. Now we're getting 6 to 9 MPG with the V10. I love it and while it still shifts a little more than the Bounder, it climbs better and our average speeds going up hills(mountains for you folks E/O the Rockies) is much higher and the RPM are lower.
To say I am in heaven with the improvement is an understatement. I do wonder if there will be any improvement towing the Sidekick over the Grand Vitara.
So enjoy the improvement and I'm sure your MPG will stay about the same if you drive the same way for the foreseeable future.
Of course our unit is used needless to say, but the only mods I can find on it is the older standard Banks intake system which apparently part of the unit when new as near as I can tell.
