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phunky system · 09-13-2005, 02:36

I know this is an age old question but I recently drove to Mt Isa 1800ks from where live to see family. I was in no hurry since i had so far to go I didnt bother going over 120~130kph but I only got 10~11 k to the lt in cruise is this normal ? car is 94 ed xr6,pacmakers and new 2.5in exhaust from cat back,k&n,auto I also have these things from work ment to save fuel called vaporate (http://www.vaporate.com/) any ideas?

fordboy98 · 09-13-2005, 05:05

That comsumption sounds resonable to me. I did own an ED 5-spd, great car. I installed the full instrument pack instead of the standard one and made it look $1m! I could do Adelaide to Melbourne on a tankful - just. 752K on 73l of fuel works out at just under 10l/100Km. A lot of the result was because I buttoned off to 105 km/h max. in Victoria because of highway robbers. Driving any faster is financial suicide. In my home state of SA, 125 km/h seems a good speed. So the average speed for that trip was probably about 110.

Currently I have an EL 5spd XR6 and it will do just about the same, execpt that the consumption is up a bit to around 10.2 l/100Km. This can be attributed to the fact that the EL has a slightly lower diff ratio and so it revs just a little harder, about 300 rpm at 120k. I took manual figures and compared with the trip computer, and they were within 0.2 l/100. The trip comp. is quite accurate.

Just querying too your figures. You were saying km to the litre. With figures of 10 or 11 I think you probably mean l/100Km. Is that correct?

phunky system · 09-13-2005, 16:23

nah kms/ltr

RAVEN · 09-14-2005, 00:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by fordboy98

This can be attributed to the fact that the EL has a slightly lower diff ratio and so it revs just a little harder, about 300 rpm at 120k. ?

I hope that is a miss print?