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go hard or go home!!
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gday fellow ford lovers, rev heads and tyre smoke addics!!
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this question would be better suited in the AU falcon. but on highway cycle, id be expecting around 11-12L/100 or something. that may be a little low though.
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go hard or go home!!
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thanks heaps!! turbo av. 9-10 on trips. missin the sound of an 8!! who cares bout fuel ecc. anyway??
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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My belief is... If your worried about fuel economy don't buy a V8... I get 350km around town and upto 600 on the highway in my Series 3 XR8
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AU2 XR8
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Perth W.A
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I get the same as BLACKAUXR8
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Monsoon SIII XR8 220
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Adelaide
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"Fuel Economy" and "XR8" are two phrases which don't go together!
Around the city its 14 - 20L per 100Km depending on the weight of your foot. BUT on country trips I get 10.5L per 100Km which is very good for an 8. Don't forget that they run on Premium Fuel too. (Something I overlooked when buying mine!) Cheers, Simon |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Sunbury, vic.
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If your only getting 250km's per tank around town russell, than you either need to lay off the right foot or find a better tuner.
Even my 1966 xr with 750holley'd 351 2V clevo pushing 504hp thru a c10 2500hi stall'd, 3.5 diff gear'd, got a lot better than that around town. I'm currently running a 320,000km's AU1 V8 with crow 1317, 1.7 rollers, 180seat pressured double with damper, 30thou off heads, ported tb and top intake, k/n panel filter, pacey 4006's with twin 2.5, standard gears and stall, and mine gets minimal 450km's per tank and at best i've gotten 900km's to a tank. Now before any mod's when i first purchased the car on standard ULP i got 600km's to a tank long trip. In saying that my tune at the moment is very lean, 13.4 average full throttle, 14 to 1 over 4000, due to a poor fuel pump, and lack of a tune. But my cruise mixtures are at 14.7 stoich when ment to be and my lean cruise is 17 to 1 like its ment to be. And if i got a tune done and it got worse economy on a cruising trip long or short, i'd be really pee'd, obviously full throttle is a different story. really these days, where does one draw the line from being a tossa flogging their car everywhere to someone driving their car nice to obtain better fuel economy. The world is changing with oil prices and some of us (me included) need to take notice.
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The only thing that irritates me about petrol prices is the oil companies talking bs to us about this and that that is pushing the price up and the govt telling us that there is nothing they can do. I'd be much happier if they all came out and said "ha ha were screwing you, we all know it and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it". I don't drive for economy, if I wanted economy I'd buy a Camry. Still doesn't make me a tossa though.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Russell that tossa comment wasn't in anyway directed at you.
If anyone i direct it at the V6 commodore drivers around here. But far enough on your view of economy, to me i drive 600km's a week so its high on the cards.
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Ummm, did any of us buy these with economy in mind??? err, I don't really think so! |
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Welcome to the gang AUBlackXR8 pretty old thread you found here
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