Auckland Fuel Economy Run Plus Wellsford

[bradc]

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?

[bradc]

I might also be able to get another driver for the ST-R so we can see what a non-turbo manual one is like.

[DefeXion]

I'm there representing the non turbos with extremely high and rediculous fel consumption caused mostly by bad habbits.

[bradc]

cool, will be interesting to see how yours compares.

[Nigelator]

I have a bottle of Rum for the VR4 guy who uses the least gas!
(have to see the petrol on the last fill?)

Can I enter my 1500 nissian sunny? might get there on 2 bucks

[bradc]

When my purple car was stock I would win that no contest at all! I managed to get 640km out of a tank once! Feel free to come along Nigel and see what your car is like. It hasn't done many km's so it might be better than some more experienced ones.

[DefeXion]

Did this happen? I just realised you said next weekend in your first post which was the weekend just gone? Did I miss out. Should I be sad and gutted now?

[bradc]

nahh noone really seemed keen, I'm happy to do it anytime with someone if they are keen though.

[KiwiTT]

I think the Wellsford Run should be like the last one.

[Xeroid]

Economy? VR4? in the same sentence, what a waste of petrol ?

[DefeXion]

"After a long hard days work of accurately filling the VR4's fuel tank many times and driving much distance at constant speed, our conclusion is that...

The VR4 is not economical in any way, shape or form."

[KiwiTT]

"The VR4 is not economical in any way, shape or form."

Nope. But when you use it as you should, it is one helluva car.

[d i c k i e s]

I managed to get 340km (in 1 week) from a almost over flowing tank down to E. which is when i had to fill up, didnt get it down to the light tho... which was my main aim. i was just to far away from the next petrol station.

Not bad i reckon, average driving... to the speed limits... and on the highways 120km + at some stages.

[Kenneth]

I managed to get 340km (in 1 week) from a almost over flowing tank down to E. which is when i had to fill up, didnt get it down to the light tho... which was my main aim. i was just to far away from the next petrol station.

Not bad i reckon, average driving... to the speed limits... and on the highways 120km + at some stages.

How many liters did it take to fill up though? You cant go by the gauge because they are very inaccurate.

[d i c k i e s]

Damn, cant remember.. it was on 3 Quarters, when i decied to fill up. Think it was like $37?

So cant remember how many litres went it. im guessing bout 15-20Litres?

[bradc]

you don't have the receipt? or an eftpos bill?

[d i c k i e s]

paid cash, and i throw receipts away, ill trial it again next week.

[Subaru ETA]

i usually put 54 - 55L a week in mine (i run it well into the light!) and ill get bout 400 - 430ks of driving to work at 130k most the way and wekkend runnig around

[Ryan]

i usually put 54 - 55L a week in mine (i run it well into the light!) and ill get bout 400 - 430ks of driving to work at 130k most the way and wekkend runnig around

I get much the same figures, if a little bit better. work is 160km total and when run to 420km I usually end up putting around the 52L mark

[Subaru ETA]

added in there im always racing my mates nissans!