What do you get from a tank?

[SIGMA302]

My 2.6 GJ auto wagon gets anywhere from 270Km to 320Km from a tank of regular unleaded. Is that the same for you guys?? I think it holds around 45 litres, so that would be just over 15 litres per hundred Km....
What do you guys do????

[camB]

About 550km highway cycle. That's in a 2 litre GE sedan with a 56 litre tank (me thinks).
Much worse around town though.

[woops]

I get about 10.5L/100km in my gb 1.6L auto on a suburban circuit where I rarely get over 80. When i start going highway speeds the consumption goes to something more like 11.5L/100km. These measures were taken over a duration of about a dozen fill ups in a row so they are pretty accurate.

[A112H]

Big holes in what ever you shoot.

[Nath76LA]

Big holes in what ever you shoot.

lol. I was thinking of some sort of a smart-ass remark like that but decided to decline from making it.

Mine is somewhere around 10L/100km.

[77galantv6]

on the highway i get around 7L/100k's

around town 10l/100k's

when giving it a hard time on a spirited run through the twisties its more like 29l/100k's haha

[75wagon]

My LC Lancer hatch (1600 belt drive with a mild cam and down draught weber) gets 10 to 11 litres to 100kms around town, much better on the freeway, but I haven't run full tanks through on that type of driving (it's just my to and from work car after all). If I had to guess the freeway economy, I'd have to say 8 litres to the 100kms.
My Galant wagon (1600 chain drive, twin down draught solex's, and No.5 cam) gets 13.5litres to the 100kms around town and 10litres to the 100kms on the freeway.

Either car doesn't seem to matter to much what type of fuel it runs, the figures are pretty consistent. I don't drive like a grandpa either.

Just for a comparison, I had a dead stock standard Galant wagon with a freshly rebuilt stock motor (carb and exhaust was standard to) it returned 7 litres to the 100kms around town.

Dave...

[unique10]

far out, i reckon im getting ripped!

my galant so far is returning a little over 300km a tank of freeway driving and thats costing me about $60 to fill it up with premium from empty. wierd thing is that it seems to be giving me better ks with city/surburban driving. hoping at this point that the reason that the cars not getting the best economy is becasuse its running a lean as under boost.

[astronturbo77]

not enough, but who cares? just hold the cunt flat.

[77galantv6]

[SIGMA302]

Big holes in what ever you shoot.

Ah, cracked me up! Must be slowing down in my old age, took me a while to figure out what you meant Sounds like I've got some tuning to do, not that it will matter anyway once I shoehorn in the big clevo. Modified a singlerail bellhousing to take a T5 so I can get a few less revs in 5th.
Anyone whacked a 350 holley on a 2.6? Do any good?

[webby]

I got from Parkes to the Marulan service centre on just over 3/4 tank in the VC, ye olde blue 202 wasn't as thirsty as I thought -
Scorpion averaged ~350-400km to 60l

[bundo]

Don't know what the lancer gets but it is much better than my last car. 35ltr to 100klm.
13b monster port on 4.9:1 diff.only driven on weekends.

I can do a day run in the lancer on one tank it took 3 to 4 tanks in the 323.

[Superscan811]

With 2 engines and a gearbox in a box trailer, the back of the wagon full of engine parts and a W58 gearbox, the wagon drove from Albury to Liverpool, 550 kilometers, on 1 tank of fuel, approx 65L.

11.8L/100K = 8.46 KpL = 23.4 mpg (old speak)

Cheers.

EDIT:
using E10 (10% ethanol)

[Superscan811]

I think it holds around 45 litres, so that would be just over 15 litres per hundred Km....
What do you guys do????

Bad news,From the MMC workshop manual, Sedans hold 60L, Wagons hold 53L but, I fill my wagon up with 65L.

Cheers.

[tubby]

I get around 11lt/100k's on the highway 2.6 scorp

[ST19MA]

I have a GN (I think)2.6l carb auto sedan that just did 300 to a full tank of about 60 lts (mainly freeway driving)
Reving @3000 rpm @115kph so I thought that was a bit shit but apparently it seems normal

[Oldfart]

I have a 2 litre with an auto in a 78 Scorpion. Just did a 500 K trip and got 11.5 K's a litre on premium one way and only 8.5 K's a litre on crap unleaded the other way. The worse mileage with the unleaded had tailwind assistance as well. I did 460 K's and it took just on 40 litres on the premium.

I have put more than 45 litres in, do they hold more or are the fuel stations didling us with dodgy metering? Bowsers are supposed to be calibrated, so what's to stop them fidling the flow indicating we are getting and paying for more than we actually are? Even 5% stealing margin a car would make for a tidy profit margin for our free enterprise friends?

[Speedy88]

2 Litre in the GE Sigma, I think it's a 45litre tank and I get about 200-250 miles depending on how aggressive I'm being. It's usually short journeys with cold starts but I think I'm getting around 30mpg.

[InsaneTD]

Pretty sure all signa sedans have a 60l tank. The wagons all have the same basic body and the 53l tank.

I used to be able to get better then 10/100km in my first GJ at times. Normally got 450 out of a tank of 60l. It was a 2.6 with 5 speed. My current sigma, I'm lucky to get 400km out of it. Though I think that's mostly cause the carby is dirty and probably needs a rebuild. It's a 2.0l with the 3 speed.

[geezer101]

My current sigma, I'm lucky to get 400km out of it. Though I think that's mostly cause the carby is dirty and probably needs a rebuild. It's a 2.0l with the 3 speed.

The auto will be lousy on fuel economy to start off with. But you're right - getting the carby cleaned out and rebuilt goes a long way to improving fuel economy and overall running.

[Superscan811]

I'm now running E85 in the Triton and on the trek back from Melbourne, I drove 480k's with a 65L tank =13.5l/100k.
That's not bad considering you use around 30% more E85 than standard petrol.

Doing a bit of tweaking at the moment, hoping to improve on that.



Cheers.

[Oldfart]

So is E85 30% cheaper?

[Scorpma82]

doubtful

If you want bang for your buck performance....go straight lpg

U lose (no scientific figures here) 10-15% hp (without a tune)....but it's 50 odd % cheaper than unleaded

[Oldfart]

I'll just run premium, the engine runs cleaner, crisper and does better millage.

[Jordan1249]

all you guys are lucky my little GC gets like 150km maybe 200km to a tank

[Scorpma82]

Don't feel too bad just yet.......Galants have much smaller tanks than Sigmas

[Jordan1249]

the carbys are running rich have to get them tune and its like 45L tank ahah