79 Spitfire

gook6986 · Post by **gook6986** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:50 pm

Hi, i was wondering how many miles per gallon i will get on a 79 Spitfire

gook6986 · Post by **gook6986** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:26 pm

anyone?

Post by **Matt** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:36 pm

I never really paid attention to it. Why do you want to know? Long trip?

gook6986 · Post by **gook6986** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 10:20 pm

no i'm not going on a long trip just wanting to know for my own reson to see how many miles cause the way the gas prices are now it's 2.61 here

400brian · Post by **400brian** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:49 pm

When it snows you ride! $$ be damned! : ^)

JDFanPa · Post by **JDFanPa** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:15 am

have to agree with Brian on that. These old sleds arent that hard on gas. You want bad get a newer sled with a big cc twin and 2 big carbs last winter I would get about 80 miles on $20 worth of gas with my zr580. I never calculated the mileage but it was bad. I stopped figuring the mileage out along time ago when I had a 1989 650 wildcat. Try this on my tow vehicle daily driver was a 1979 f250 4x4 with a fairly built up 429 and 38 inch tires the sled was about twice as hard on gas as the truck coming in at around 5.4mpg. Id bet that the spitfire gets over 10mpg but thats just my guess.

gook6986 · Post by **gook6986** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:45 am

ok thanks

sporty440 · Post by **sporty440** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:57 am

Im getting around 10 mpg on my snowfire (same motor)