Hey whas up peeps well i got a em'1 for those who need to know with nothing additional to it rather than a b20 so noticing ive had this car for a little over a year the gas meter always happens to go down when i pull on it and then later goes up is it much of a normal thing for all civic's for this to happen or do i have to put different gas like the premium type .... ??

 

The tank isn't sumped or baffled. Heavy G forces will make the gas slosh around in the tank, causing your fuel gauge to move.

 

As will hills, left and right lean, and I wouldn't even say heavy g forces. Once the tank is low enough every start and stop, even casually, affects the guage.

 

hills and leaning are another form of G forces, breh.

 

I get that, you said Heavy G forces... Just adding that doesn't necessarily have to be hard G's to affect the guage.

 

Welcome to the world of honda gas gauges.

 

^^^What he said.

 

Worst feeling in the world: Powering through a heavy right-turn on or off ramp, and realizing you lost half a tank of gas doing it.

Best feeling in the world: a mile later when you somehow magically have more gas than when you entered the turn.

 

Ive taken 40+ mile trips on the interstate and arrived home with more gas than when i left.

 

i had the same prob in one of my 91 civic but i could just be driving it at 30 miles and that would happened and coming to find out it had something to do with the meter inside the tank

 

what is a heavy g force ?

 

I'll be gentle and ask first, do you know what a g force is or what g forces are?

Defintion: g-force (with g from gravitational) is a measurement of acceleration felt as weight.

So essentially sitting on a hill not moving isn't g-force, but accelerating up that same hill is g-force. Or whipping around a sharp corner, the weight you feel pulling you to the side is called g-force.

So heavy g force would be a large amount of pull. I say pull because you usually feel like you are being pulled in a certain direction. 9 g's would probably be considered heavy g force.

And well, if you were trolling me..... Ya got me.

 

haha thanks man appreciate it i got it

 

yeah same here, gas gauge is bipolar!