1970 Dodge Charger Article.

Hi

I have'nt posted in about a year. My 1970 Dodge Challenger is being restored. I have decided to go with Gomango Orange (original 383 3 speed car in dark metalic green).

I want to turn it into a street machine but I love the "true" muscle look, not the modern look with 20" wheels that I personally believe belong to JAPANESE RICERS not MUSCLE CARS, it defeats the purpose (to me it does great injustice seeing 20" rims on muscle cars, thats just, wrong, Go buy a supra if u wanna do that.) Im putting on american racing torque thrust D magnesium finished wheels (dark grey) 15x10's / 15x8.

This is so you have some Idea what Im getting going here. What I want to know is, Would anybody have a clue what MPG the 70 charger with the 472 hemi gets around town (normal driving) ?

If no, or yes,

Im trying to build a car that I can pretty much use like every day without it costing an arm and a leg in fuel. On popularhotrodding.com there is a red camaro thats running like 20mpg-21mpg (which works out to 11.8 litres per 100km) on freeway driving, at the same time the cars getting 11.6 (pretty close to it) down the quarter. So it is a fast car and at the same time not bad on fuel.

Im trying to run like 15L - 100km (17mpg or so i assume) city driving. and 20+mpg (10-11 litres - 100km) On freeway, so that my cars useable for driving not just car shows. (90 litre fuel tank in a challenger, i expect to get minimum 600km out of it on freeway, 450 miles)

WOuld it be possible to get this out of a 528 hemi (EFI setup, 6 speed manual setup) Or thats an impossibility.

Would it be possible to get those figures with a 426 hemi EFI and 6 speed manual ?

That camaro is running 406 cubes i want to run 20 cubes more only. WIll the fact his engine = small block make any difference or big/small block doesnt matter, what matters is the "cubes"

ANy help please?