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Rev up your engines!
It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
today I'm going to show you how to get better gas mileage in your car now
realize for every gallon of gasoline at your engine burns it also burns thousands
of cubic feet of air, so if your air filter is dirty
guess what, crappy gas mileage, now don't get suckered into all these special air
filters will get better gas mileage, normal filters work just fine,
now the oil-soaked ones will filter a little bit better but if you live in a
dusty condition they will clog up more and you have to clean them all the time so the
plain old ones they come with are perfectly fine now the next thing to
check is your spark plugs you want to make sure they're not worn out because
if they're worn out you're going to get worse gas mileage now if you look at
this spark plug it says split fire, years ago this company sold these plugs with a
little v split on them and they claimed they got better gas mileage more
horsepower but it was really a bunch of nonsense because car manufacturers are
under immense pressure to get better gas mileage and have more power if a spark plug
could do it, believe me, they would put them in when they build them at the
factory let's don't go for any of those gimmicks just use the same type that it
originally came. next thing is to have your cat check your air pressure but of
course cats don't take orders very well so you're gonna have to do it yourself
and the reason you want to do that is because tires have rolling resistance
and if you don't have the right pressure in them you're going to have more rolling
resistance and you're going to get worse gas mileage you can check the pressure
for your own car but I generally use about 32 psi in normal cars and the next
thing for better gas mileage is keep your engine oil clean and use the
recommended oil in this case it's five weight thirty you'll get better gas
mileage than a heavier oil and many modern cars uses zero w 10 oil that's
very light oil you're going to get better gas mileage, the engines were
designed for it they'll work perfectly fine but you'll get better gas mileage with
a lighter oil and of course drive more conservatively if you drive at a
leisurely pace you're going to get better gas mileage don't drive like this
because when I drove that Mustang like that
I got a whopping 3 miles per gallon gas mileage but if you don't mind
conservative driving there's a device that can help you get better gas mileage
it's called wind booster just google it if you have a modern car with an
electronic throttle you just go to the throttle pedal and unplug the connector
here it comes right off then you plug this into the wind booster onto the
accelerator sensor just snaps on and you get the other end of the wind booster
and plug that into the electrical connection on the car it just snaps on too
in it goes, then you reset the mode button it will push on it normal economy
now it's in the economy mode and you'll get better gas mileage because in the
economy mode the accelerator now has a lag the computer has a lag so instead of
having really fast acceleration it accelerates slower and you'll get better
gas mileage granted you will have worse acceleration but you can have the best
of both worlds with this if you want because it also has a sport mode, a sport
plus mode, and a race mode for the most acceleration so you can turn it on or
off as you're driving if you want a little faster acceleration you can do
that now if you want to get better gas mileage just put it back to economy now
some modern cars already have this feature built in the button is just on
the dash for you to do it but if yours doesn't heck you can buy one of these
kits pretty cheap and just put it on yourself
the lowest priced one I found by Google in it was about 92 bucks so hey not a bad
deal though I have to admit most guys buy these to drive faster but you can
drive them in economy mode and they save you gas mileage so if you're looking to
get better gas mileage out of your car now you know what you can do about it
and remember if you've got any car questions just visit the Scotty Kilmer
channel before it's too late.