Who\'s good at working out MPG?

[carlbrainiac]

Ok I shall drive to work as I know this is exactly 3 miles from my house so that will tell me. If it is in miles then my fuel economy actually isnt that bad and not far off my subaru :-) lol

[carlbrainiac]

Ok just got back and it is in miles. Thats a relief lol. I know it is exactly 3 miles from my house to my work. And the clock had 0.8 on it where I had come back from the petrol station. And just as I got to work it said 3.8. So absolutely spot on :-)
 
So now working on the fact that my above picture is actually in miles and not Km what does that mean I am getting in MPG?

[carlbrainiac]

bout 18 MPG? Thats about normal isnt it? If thats the case then thats not too bad. Not much different to my subaru. I know that isnt the best comparison and its still pretty bad but still. I am happy :-)
 
Only problem is what does that mean for the odometer? As I dont know what Km\'s the clock had on it before it was converted to miles so now its going to be difficult to tell. Although its irrelavent anyways as it has had a recon engine put it but still would be nice to have a better idea how many miles that engine has done so I have a rough idea when the next re-build is due. Hopefully with the amount of miles I do I wont need to fork out for a re-build for the entire time I own the car. lol

[lee mills]

16.61 mpg:wiggle

[Dehs]

I have you clocked at 16.6 MPG from those revised figures, and considering thats overall, i dont thinks thats too bad...

[carlbrainiac]

Yeah. And keeping in mind that wasnt to the tank dry. Not even the warning light on or anything. And thats lots of short journeys. More motorway stuff and I may even be able to push that to 18 or 20 mpg lol. Biggest problem for me though is the bloody dump valve. I cant help it I love hearing it so I rev between every gear. If I didnt have that sodding thing I could prob get 30 to the gallon lol. But I love it :-)

[Dehs]

I dont have a dump on mine, ive been debating on whether to get one or not, its bad enuff having twin turbos... I managed to eke out a measly 9mpg outta my fiance\'s dads turbo golf, simply coz i loooooooove the dump noise xD

Back to topic, on motorway driving, you may hit mid 20\'s, which is fairly good...  I do knwo that you can empty a full tank in under 100 miles if you are a bit heavy-footed

[carlbrainiac]

I have just had a great thought that police could come out with if they want to stop speeding. And also to help our fuel economy. Make us all fit dump valves. However instead of the cool dump noise make it make a really embarassing sound lol. Like a fart. Or a camp oo err lol. Then we would all drive so carefully because we dont wanna make the dump valve go off lol

[Dehs]

Hah yeah, thats true, but then there\'d be an underground mod scene to get that removed/altered to sound cool again, so its a vicious circle you starting =P

[carlbrainiac]

lol very true

[Nik da Greek]

not to hijack the thread or anything but why do people always say dont run low on fuel because you start to suck up all the gunk... i mean, isnt that why the fuel filter is there?

It\'s generally a bad idea to let an FD run too low on fuel because if you corner hard (like on a track or whatever) and the fuel sloshes away from the pickup you suck up a big lump of air, lean out catastrophically and then your engine goes bang. :Thumbs-up This is generally considered a bad thing.

As to working out MPG figures, my advice would be.. don\'t. You\'ll only upset yourselves :rollin

[bigdawg]

It\'s generally a bad idea to let an FD run too low on fuel because if you corner hard (like on a track or whatever) and the fuel sloshes away from the pickup you suck up a big lump of air, lean out catastrophically and then your engine goes bang. :Thumbs-up This is generally considered a bad thing.

As to working out MPG figures, my advice would be.. don\'t. You\'ll only upset yourselves :rollin

unless you build a little box inside your fuel tank so if you do corner hard that wont happen

[Nik da Greek]

Yep, unless you do that :yes. Of course, arguably the sort of people who are worried about how to eke out the longevity of a fuel filter don\'t always spend huge amounts of time fabricating baffled fuel tanks or custom pick-ups to be fair, but I never implied that it wasn\'t possible.

[carlbrainiac]

Was just speaking to the previous owner about the speedo conversion to MPH and he thought it was just the speedo too. He didnt realise that the trip meter had been converted. To be fair though on my little test drive earlier I forgot to look to see if the odometer went up the same. I assume it would though. And with that in mind I asked him when the speedo conversion was done to try to get an idea how many miles its done since. He seems to think it was done on the last engine rebuild at 100,000 Km It now has 118,000 something on the clock. So would that mean it has done 18,000 miles since the engine rebuild?

[Nik da Greek]

Was just speaking to the previous owner about the speedo conversion to MPH and he thought it was just the speedo too. He didnt realise that the trip meter had been converted. To be fair though on my little test drive earlier I forgot to look to see if the odometer went up the same. I assume it would though. And with that in mind I asked him when the speedo conversion was done to try to get an idea how many miles its done since. He seems to think it was done on the last engine rebuild at 100,000 Km It now has 118,000 something on the clock. So would that mean it has done 18,000 miles since the engine rebuild?

Yep, sounds like it. My speedo is converted to miles and the odo works in miles now too