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DownTheHatch
07-21-2002, 08:58 PM
Today I started getting horrible gas mileage, like really bad I took out $5 work of gas in half a day, this morning a filled up and now I'm down 1/4. Can only mean one thing, the K&N filter on my AEM is filthy. I'll have to remove it and wash it. Just thought I'd give you the heads up.
stingyboy
07-21-2002, 09:52 PM
firstly, it doesn't seem likely that your filter needs cleaning so fast. secondly, i think even a very dirty filter on a CAI would still breathe at least as well as stock. i think your gas mileage is going down because you're driving with an "Si foot" now. :p
Pradamuimui
07-22-2002, 12:40 PM
GOOD POINT...I think that you also have the Si disease!!!
Az02Si
07-22-2002, 12:45 PM
My car got SHITTY milage for the first few thousand miles,even driving it really slowly everywhere i went.All better now though,with more miles and 91 octane.
HondaMan
07-22-2002, 11:25 PM
Originally posted by stingyboy
firstly, it doesn't seem likely that your filter needs cleaning so fast. secondly, i think even a very dirty filter on a CAI would still breathe at least as well as stock. i think your gas mileage is going down because you're driving with an "Si foot" now. :p

LOL! Must me the Si foot, I know I have it bad! :D
Riflez
07-23-2002, 04:09 AM
Yea quite a lot of people seem to have Lead feet in the new Honda's :)

Got watch the Oil level like a hawk too on ours. Gone through 4 Litres in 3000 miles so far
CivicSiR
07-23-2002, 07:43 PM
Yeah, actually I got like under 20mpg the first few hundred miles. Pretty bad. And that's w/o a CAI yet. By the way, someone mentioned they're using 91 octane. The service dude at my Honda dealer said not to use anything but 87 or 89, as over time, using higher octane would eat at the engine components. He said every 5k miles or so I could run higher octane through to clean everything out, but other than that, run 87 or 89. That's just what HE said. You may want to check on it, as he could be wrong, but uh, ''eating at your engine components" just didn't sound to good to me.
Riflez
07-24-2002, 01:37 AM
Most of us over the pond run the Type-R's on 98 Octane. You cant even get Unleaded Fuel below 95 here
stingyboy
07-24-2002, 01:36 PM
and you pay about 3 to 4 times more than us also... :eek:
CivicSiR
07-24-2002, 01:45 PM
What does the Type-R octane that you use have to do with Si octane we use? Just curious.