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What gas does a 2008 Dodge Ram take?

What gas does a 2008 Dodge Ram take?

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2008 Dodge Ram 1500 Pickup 4WD
EPA MPG Regular Gasoline 14 combined city/highway MPG 13 city 17 highway 7.1 gals/100 miles
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EPA Size Class Standard Pickup Trucks 4WD

What kind of engine is in Dodge Ram 1500?

The longest time of using the PowerTech V8 4.7L engine was on the Dodge Ram 1500 – until the 2013 model year. Chrysler replaced this 4.7-liter V8 power unit by a more technical innovative 3.6 V6 Pentastar and modern Hemi V8 engines.

What kind of fuel injection does a Chrysler 4.7L have?

The engine has an electronic fuel injection system (sequential multi-port injection). The fuel injectors are mounted to the intake port in the head. The new tuned-length runner intake manifold is made of polymer material. The engine speed is controlled by an electronic throttle body (fly-by-wire).

What kind of mpg does a Dodge Ram get?

2008 Dodge Ram 1500 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 MPG Based on data from 150 vehicles, 10,010 fuel-ups and 2,527,094 miles of driving, the 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 gets a combined Avg MPG of 12.75 with a 0.07 MPG margin of error. Below you can see a distribution of the fuel-ups with 152 outliers (1.50%) removed.

What kind of fuel does a flex fuel car use?

They say “FlexFuel” or, more descriptively, “FlexFuel … E85 Ethanol.” Almost 20 million vehicles in the United States come off the assembly line as flex-fuel, meaning they can run perfectly well on any mixture of gasoline and ethanol, up to E85 (which is actually 51 percent to 83 percent ethanol, the rest gasoline).

The longest time of using the PowerTech V8 4.7L engine was on the Dodge Ram 1500 – until the 2013 model year. Chrysler replaced this 4.7-liter V8 power unit by a more technical innovative 3.6 V6 Pentastar and modern Hemi V8 engines.

The engine has an electronic fuel injection system (sequential multi-port injection). The fuel injectors are mounted to the intake port in the head. The new tuned-length runner intake manifold is made of polymer material. The engine speed is controlled by an electronic throttle body (fly-by-wire).

2008 Dodge Ram 1500 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 MPG Based on data from 150 vehicles, 10,010 fuel-ups and 2,527,094 miles of driving, the 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 gets a combined Avg MPG of 12.75 with a 0.07 MPG margin of error. Below you can see a distribution of the fuel-ups with 152 outliers (1.50%) removed.

What’s the compression ratio on a Chrysler 4.7L V8?

From the 2008 model year, the 4.7L V8 PowerTech engine has new cylinder heads with two spark plugs per cylinder (by the way, these two spark plugs are not identical). The bottom received new lightweight pistons and forged steel (36MnVS4 material) connecting rods. The compression ratio was increased from 9.0:1 to 9.8:1.

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