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Rocket Scientist
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I want to start this discussion to try to separate fact from fiction. I live in Alabama and everyone I know with a Lightning gets 12 to 14 MPG, in mixed highway and city. City, I have seen 10 MPG... I average 12.7 MPG. I have a friend that installed the Mass Air Flow conversion kit and gained 2 MPG. A story in Fast Ford and Muscle Mustangs, Feb of 97 I believe had a guy in with a 93 Lightning that got 20 MPG with a super charger. He says the secret was in the electronics and he changed the Fuel to Air ratio to 14.6 to 1, I think. He admitted to changing it to 12 to 1 when towing and dropped down to 14 MPG. This was a 10 sec. in the quarter Truck! I have try to contact the writer of the article to obtain the phone number of this guy, but my attempts have been unsuccessful. I am concerned about changing the ratio for fear on running too lean. SVT's help line was not help of course, young kid answers the phone with no answer... only more phone numbers with same results. Does any out their have any experience with this?? I know we all could use the gas mileage, its the only reason we occasionally consider selling.