What\'s the average MPG for the Rx7?
Seems to be quite bad from what I can tell... lol
I\'ve had a Mr2 Turbo a 350bhp Pulsar and a 400bhp TT Supra. The rx7 seems to use more fuel than the lot.
As you know It\'ll depend on your right foot.
I\'ve had mine four years and I\'d guess 16-18 on average [stockish].
But you\'re not supposed to ask the question............
John
yeah ive hurd you can get 27mpg but i love my rex and how she sounds so ive got a bit of a heavy right foot.
all i know is that i fill her up every 2 weeks with v-power dont know what mpg is to that.
I used to get around 20mpg when standard maybe a bit more.
now im lucky to get 10, these things drink it like its going out of fashion:(
From a 400hp single turbo FD - I\'ve had some 24 mpg on a motorway run.
When gving the car WOT and around town I get a 1/3 of that.
I bought my car knowing it liked a tipple, but this things an petroholic.
I manage to silent the little voice saying "Its drinking to much, you cant afford this, get rid of it" with the before mentioned heavy right foot....cant hear anything under WOT :)
im putting 30 quid a week in, and get about 75 miles out of it. Id do the conversion to mpg......but i cant :) but i know mines quite low.
i\'d say driving sensibly( if that\'s possibly) i get about 24mpg but with a heavy foot i get 12mpg, although i\'ve worked out i average 18mpg with the way i drive.
Whats all this economy talk! You don\'t buy an FD and expect it to have a good mpg lol!!!!
Just cross your fingers we can keep our 1.3 tax!!
I drove to cornwall from heathrow on just under half a tank of petrol
that was a good 240 odd miles, and i can tell you, it was hell keeping neg boost...
Quote from: John_HudsonI drove to cornwall from heathrow on just under half a tank of petrol
that was a good 240 odd miles, and i can tell you, it was hell keeping neg boost...
yeah i know mate twichy right foot i get it some times lol:burnout
I got 17.8 mpg on a motorway run for about 200 miles straight.
£30 of VPower gets me 100 miles on average with the occaisional blip or two.
that sounds about right, i get about 220 to a tank and its about 60 ish to fill up aint it.
£60 for £220 miles! ... ouch.. lol
Oh well, the joys of owning a RX7! :)
yep, my record is 18mpg in the middle of winter when it was icy! average is 16-17mpg, worst was 12mpg for one evening\'s fun, yikes!
heres how mine looks. MPG is on the right, you can see how much i have spent and how many miles it has got me. the last few times £35.00 has got me about 80-90 miles, lol. that was when i took up my new habbit, of leaving it in high boost the whole time.
oh yer i am single turbo, and for some reason it appears might right foot is a little heavy........opppss :rollin :rollin
the high ones near the begining at 19mpg, were done on 90% motorway at about 75-80.
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h42/samkendle/mpg.jpg)
oh yer plus the 2x20mpg, i dont think are correct as i think i lost a reciept. might not have done though
Loving the high boost area you\'ve alocated D1 lmao!
Quote from: MimsLoving the high boost area you\'ve alocated D1 lmao!
yer its around those last 3-4 stops ish, lol
I get about 140 miles to £55 of V-power, but its got a knightspeed or knightsport (cant remember what pip said it was) ecu on it...
driving sensibly...... driving sensibly........ driving sensibly........ sensibly driving.............. sensibly....... hummmmmm......... driving sensibly........ Nope, don`t get it???;)
Quote from: D1 WTFyer its around those last 3-4 stops ish, lol
Pmsl you crazy man! Spending a bit much on fuel btw! A good idea though keeping track with costs etc mucho kudos my good man!
Quote from: Baz116I get about 140 miles to £55 of V-power, but its got a knightspeed or knightsport (cant remember what pip said it was) ecu on it...
Knightsports m8
thanks Mims!!!
at the moment it is my only car unfortuately. i could buy a car and run insure it for a year for about the savings i would make in a 2 months.
oh yer and the last month, i have been doing a lot less miles than i would normally in a week or so.
21mpg................:cool
From what i\'ve been told i belive its possable to Fit a PFC and map it too better on Juice, But that said you\'ll find Rx7\'ns will always be set up richer than most Piston motors.
I guess it all depends on what you want, More power the More it will drink but if you want to keep it stockish there are things that can be done to help a Bit (like fitting a Throttle stop ;))
I just fill it up when it needs it!
Just done 270miles on last tank with a weeks travel to work and a couple long journeys. £57 to fill up. I have done better than that on stock setup but have to see what it\'s like when I have the remap as I am very rich at the moment although I think it\'s quite alright at the moment :)
i made it to bristol on half a tank - i was driving 70-80 and the occasional boost to overtake every two minutes lol
about 25 quid to go 180 miles roughly. i dont think its bad however it is close to a stock engine.
but round town uff forget it!
i fill up every 250kms travelled...
seem to be getting about 17mpg... twin turbos, mapped to VPower, custom injector setup.
Pick up my FD on Sunday :). Was under the impression they drank fuel more than my last few cars (Supra, EVO IV, Skyline GTR) but after reading this I don\'t think there\'s that much different. So far EVO was the worst would average 15 MPG.
Yeah, I\'ve had a Supra, Evo IV, Pulsar, Mr2....
Think the FD is quite bad around town compared with the others tho.
Quote from: SavageUKim putting 30 quid a week in, and get about 75 miles out of it. Id do the conversion to mpg......but i cant :) but i know mines quite low.
Roughly 11MPG (based on 6.6Gallons - think that is around £30 worth - probo will be corrected )
25 quid to go 180
Well I recon thats about 6 gal at £4.50 a gal [that\'s the conversion isn\'t it?]
180 divided by 6 = 30mpg bloody amazing
I have to stick around £60 into mine and I fill her up again when she\'s approaching 400km
Quote from: clandestineI have to stick around £60 into mine and I fill her up again when she\'s approaching 400km
400kms :2eek :2eek
I\'m always to scared to go anywhere near 300kms..
how many litres do you squeeze in when you fill up?
must be a very nearly empty tank there...
PS - I was told once its never very good to let a rotary engine get too low on fuel.. any truth in this?
not really ust rotarys, but more FDs. The baffling in the tanks are crap - on track anything under half a tank i get misfire because of fuel starvation and in a straight line anything under 8th of a tank gives me a misfire on WOT.
on a full tank(over flowing lol) i can only get 150 miles to a full tank:burnout dont think i want to know what that works out as lol:Hammer
Well I got more than 220miles to the tank.
I put some more petrol in before it got to the empty tho. If I had let it go on, I would have got at least another 20miles.
Quote from: Bobfishnot really ust rotarys, but more FDs. The baffling in the tanks are crap - on track anything under half a tank i get misfire because of fuel starvation and in a straight line anything under 8th of a tank gives me a misfire on WOT.
Last year I started a lap of the Nurburgring and about a 1/4 of the way round I realised the petrol light was on. There was no misfire or anything and she got back to the garage no probs and it was still a sub 10 min lap.
I wouldn\'t recommend waiting for the light to come on before filling though, think I might run a dose of injector cleaner through soon as it\'s got quite low recently.
Currently getting very close to 400 miles from a tank.
That\'s keeping under 3.5k rpm and no boost. Running in is a bugger!
Cost me less for flights for two from Edinburgh to Heathrow than it did to drive back.......................kind says it all........lol.
Some more info on this...
just over 200 miles from a tank, mainly motorway driving, stock twins with a little modification (induction + exhaust)
Unfortunately, I don\'t know how many litres I fill up with because I\'ve ditched all my fuel receipts but the yellow light will be on...when the yellow light turns red I start to pray!
Quote from: clandestineUnfortunately, I don\'t know how many litres I fill up with because I\'ve ditched all my fuel receipts but the yellow light will be on...when the yellow light turns red I start to pray!
What yellow light\'s that, then? Don\'t have one on mine (92 model)
I never knew that the fuel light had 2 colours! Is that really the case?
Quote from: clandestineUnfortunately, I don\'t know how many litres I fill up with because I\'ve ditched all my fuel receipts but the yellow light will be on...when the yellow light turns red I start to pray!
Like SupraZed I\'ve never run mine empty enough to realise there\'s a \'red\' phase to the fuel light BUT is it a good idea to run it that empty? You must stand a far higher chance of picking up crap from the bottom of the tank and impare fuel filter performance?
Mine doesn\'t have yellow phase, just red and red and then a brown phase...to my pants
Just the yellow on mine (but that hardly comes on as it gets filled up before)
You will be surprised how clean the tanks are - done fuel pump about a month ago and really couldn\'t see anything bad in there at all - just shiny metal - still would never risk it anyway :yes
The funny thing is the FB isn\'t much better than the FD. Thank god im not doing proper miles in my FD. Although it means i really don\'t get good miles with the FD, more lead foot action than anything. Super always seems to be more expensive the amount of petrol im putting the FD at the moment, haven\'t done too many miles this year !
Oulton park was fun last year, did 50miles on about 1/2 a tank. And it was wet !
Currently on the low compression engine and impco 300A carb im getting about 70mile to 20l of LPG. Somebody local to me does it at 35.9p/lt but are always closed, usually pay 42.9 or 43.9 !!!! To think its only 63bhp at the hubs !
Shaun