gas tank capacity

Cheech

Download a free app to record your gas consumption/mileage. I've been doing this since buying the Z (manually recorded the fuel economy since '84, yes I'm anal retentive) and find the fuel economy pretty consistent. If your driving habits don't change, then you could accurately guess how many miles/tank to expect. I can stretch it out to 400miles/tank, but fill up before 385, after that, beads of sweat start forming on my forehead, not to mention my wife just itching to say "I told you so".

The most I've put into the tank in one fill up was 18.999gallons. All asteriks on the distance to empty, no dots on the fuel gauge and lots of worry (completely miscalculated our next pit stop on the way to Vegas from Reno). But we made it... wahoo!

I've never been one to believe not to let the tank get too low. Each tank is drained as far as I can and never had a problem with water in the tank, sediment or fuel pump issues. Doing this since the 80's. Not sure if it has anything to do with the oil company I use, but would confidentally say over 99% of the gas I've used has been from Shell. No, I'm not an employee of Shell, just found the vehicle was getting better gas mileage whenever I used their gas (see first paragraph about being anal retentive), and have never tried anything else since.

my 2cents.

Cheers

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Troyz

Not related to the 370Z but I took my previous car to Progressive Insurance for body work and it had 1/2 a tank of gas. When I went to pick it up the Low Fuel Light was on I couldn't see 1/32th of a tank gas. No telling if any damage was done to the fuel system as a whole but I learned my lesson...people just cheap.

My 2c if you take your 370z in for any repairs leave it with a Full tank of gas and write down the miles on the OD.

kenchan

huh... they needed to do work on the gas tank?

is it easy to siphon gas out of the Z?

Troyz

They needed to replace the bumper. I dropped off the car with 1/3 tank. The car was driven to a shop for body work and a shop for an alignment. Never thought they would drive it around and not bother to top it off. Its not good to drive around any car near empty.

If this was my 370z same thing would have happened.

synolimit

This is old school about pumps burning up etc etc. we have purge tanks as do almost every modern car I know that the pumps sit in...



You can drive around till the last drop and cause zero harm since the pump is submerged in a tank of full 100% of the time. Only when fuel starve happens on these cars on right handers does the pump sit dry. Which of course is fast enough to not over heat it and as far as I know, no ones had issues after filling back up.

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