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Post by fugazi »

thrash wrote:35 mpg = 7 litres per 100kms? :wtf:
6,72 liters/100km to even more unrealistic...
Kind of like my Libero with 1.6 on the highway...
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Post by MrBishi »

On pure highway I have seen 500 miles from a tank (800km). 8.1L/100km from a stock 2.6L starion.

Combine this with MPI and 6-7L/100 is absolutely believable. At cruise you can lean the engine out a bit with relatively safely as there is no load on the engine.

Around town or with a heavy right foot the economy figures sky rocket.
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Post by JD_Stazza_Brendan »

I use to drive my Starion to Rockhampton and back (350km one way) drive around Rocky, and have fuel left in tank. MPI on a stock non-cooled motor.

I know Davidbek95's 300hp MPI car did the same trip with even better economy. Drive to Rocky, go to tafe 5 days, drive home, on 1 tank.
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Post by thrash »

MrBishi wrote:On pure highway I have seen 500 miles from a tank (800km). 8.1L/100km from a stock 2.6L starion.
i wonder if the sohc 2L would be similar? my economy has always between 13 and 14L/100km.. this is regardless of how i drive and where i drive. city driving is the same as a trip from sydney to wollongong and back..

perhaps my engine is just old and tired :S
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Post by MrBishi »

My 2L JB had worse fuel economy than the 2.6L. Maybe the 2L works a bit harder at 100km/h.
Around town they'd be much the same ie. not great!
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Post by WidebodyWoody »

My JA is better on fuel then my 2.6 when going to brissy and back. And the JA is very good around town. Maybe that might be my upgrades though.
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