bradc
05-10-2007, 08:46 AM
Following on from another thread
Could we have a whole heap of cars meet next weekend at BP Bombay at 9am in the morning, and go for a quiet cruise up to the BP just off the motorway before Silverdale on the left hand side there.
The plan would be to make sure that everyone fills up with 98 Octane this week, so that they have a fresh tank of 98 octane in there and reset the ecu after the tank goes in.
Then drive up to BP Bombay, making sure you've done at least 100km since the fill with 98 Octane to ensure that the ECU has relearnt things.
We fill the cars up to the brim, to the point where you can see the petrol sitting there at the top of the tank, then drive over to the truck stop and turn off the engine waiting for everyone else to get fuel. Once that is complete we head out onto the motorway which we should be able to do all at the same time at 9am on a Sunday, there won't be much traffic, then head down onto the motorway and cruise at a constant 100kmh to the city where we slow down to 80kmh (it will be hard to sit at a consistant faster speed through there) Then get back up to 100kmh once the speed limit is lifted on the other side of the bridge, then continue the whole way up to the Silverdale petrol station. We should all be able to drive straight up to a pump, turn the engine off and get petrol, they have quite a few pumps there and it should be fairly quiet at that time on a sunday morning.
Then fill them all back up the brim and we will take measurement of how much fuel we've all used.
The distance is about 80-90km's I beleive, so it will probably take us until about 10am to get there, so we can meet up with anyone else if they can't be bothered to do the fuel economy part of it, then we can all take a quick trip across to diary flat then nail it up the road to Wellsford and have some good fun and get all of the stupid economy crap out of the system!
Who's keen for it?
Could we have a whole heap of cars meet next weekend at BP Bombay at 9am in the morning, and go for a quiet cruise up to the BP just off the motorway before Silverdale on the left hand side there.
The plan would be to make sure that everyone fills up with 98 Octane this week, so that they have a fresh tank of 98 octane in there and reset the ecu after the tank goes in.
Then drive up to BP Bombay, making sure you've done at least 100km since the fill with 98 Octane to ensure that the ECU has relearnt things.
We fill the cars up to the brim, to the point where you can see the petrol sitting there at the top of the tank, then drive over to the truck stop and turn off the engine waiting for everyone else to get fuel. Once that is complete we head out onto the motorway which we should be able to do all at the same time at 9am on a Sunday, there won't be much traffic, then head down onto the motorway and cruise at a constant 100kmh to the city where we slow down to 80kmh (it will be hard to sit at a consistant faster speed through there) Then get back up to 100kmh once the speed limit is lifted on the other side of the bridge, then continue the whole way up to the Silverdale petrol station. We should all be able to drive straight up to a pump, turn the engine off and get petrol, they have quite a few pumps there and it should be fairly quiet at that time on a sunday morning.
Then fill them all back up the brim and we will take measurement of how much fuel we've all used.
The distance is about 80-90km's I beleive, so it will probably take us until about 10am to get there, so we can meet up with anyone else if they can't be bothered to do the fuel economy part of it, then we can all take a quick trip across to diary flat then nail it up the road to Wellsford and have some good fun and get all of the stupid economy crap out of the system!
Who's keen for it?