Cliff...youve hit the button!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
People who complain about paying $1.30 a litre for petrol don't bat an eyelid at paying much the same price for bottled water.
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Cliff...youve hit the button!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
People who complain about paying $1.30 a litre for petrol don't bat an eyelid at paying much the same price for bottled water.
They tend not to buy 60 bottles a week thought.
Most petrol tankers are diesel poweredQuote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
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Thats why you need to drive a v8 landcruiser
Uses a &^%&* load whatever speed you go;)
And the quicker we use up all the fossil fuel the faster earth can recover;) .
Looks like I'm a greenie after all. Now to save some trees!
dazzler
People in this great country need to realise that the water is going to run out before the petrol does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
Well, we did a trip recently, about 500km return. Normally the car gets about 450-500km to a tank, but including that trip, nearly 600km.
The scary part is we were doing about 130 in both directions... :D
In cars with half decent fuel injection systems, it also makes sense to keep the revs low. If the brainbox decides you are wanting more go, it will dump bulk fuel into the engine, especially on those cars that have a bit more go than standard. I know with the RX-8, it's about 4,000rpm, and the fuel economy goes out the window.
Next car will be a hybrid for us thanks. ;)
I'm getting about 5.4l per 100km out of my Hyundai Accent, having changed 3 things:
1) removed the convoluted resonator before the airfilter box, and replaced it with a straight tube from grille to filter box.
2) stick it in neutral any time the road slopes down.
3) given up washing the car. I used to believe that the air resistance bit was lowered if the car was smooth and slickly polished, but look at shark skin, whale skin, golf balls, olympic swimming costumes. They all have lumps and bumps to deliberately create a small layer of turbulence close to the surface, which is supposed to reduce resistance all over.
Cheers,
Andrew
Thank you, now I finally have an excuse.Quote:
3) given up washing the car. I used to believe that the air resistance bit was lowered if the car was smooth and slickly polished, but look at shark skin, whale skin, golf balls, olympic swimming costumes. They all have lumps and bumps to deliberately create a small layer of turbulence close to the surface, which is supposed to reduce resistance all over.
Don't forget, you save even more fuel if the boot is full of fishing gear and the cabin full of sand ... like mine :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
Richard
I found what buggers my fuel economy on my Cruiser is SWMBO towing the float with two TB's and the hand brake on.
Complained when she got home that accelleration was a bit lacking, also put about 500,000k's on the floats brake linings :mad:
:D Well that will do it.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Iain
Al :D x a brazilion
Best economy is when you get the thing into top gear or overdrive in its recomended speed range , touch the breaks as little as possible use cruse controle , don't carry any extra weight , or roof racks, accellerate slowly , get picked up rather than pic up
Oh and pump you tyres up to a brazillion kpa,
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
If game, tuck in behind a semi and use their drag to pull you along. :rolleyes:
If you are doing 50 kms per hour no wind, and I go to 100kms per hour no wind.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidG
How can the wind resitance be 400 kms per hour?
Al :confused:
AIR resistance Al, not wind resistance, thar's a diff-a-nance. ;)
The amount of power required to overcome a 100Km "wind" is 4 times greater to overcome a 50Km "wind".