Been checking the fuel consumption on my 65 Splitty with a 1600SP motor in it. It takes about 35litres of fuel and does a touch over 200 miles on a full tank. My reckoning is that its doing about 26mpg or 11.05km/l. The bus is a devon camper with a full wood interior, engine stock with reduction gears etc.
I'd be interested in seeing what other people are getting especially bay windows with 1600cc and 1800/2000cc. I'd also be interested in seeing what an IRS bus gets in the way of fuel economy.
Cheers
Steve
P.S if you want to convert from mpg to km/l or from litres to gallons just type in your calculation in google search i.e 25mpg to km/l, and google will automatically convert it for you.
to convert X 2.83 to go from km/L to mpg
Steve
my 82 2L auto bus is getting
6 km/L
16.6 L/100 km - for the backward
17 mgp
Yeah a little heavy but i got ROOM compared to you!!! 😉
Futue te ipsum!!!
Steve, funny you bought that topic up now, I just checked my fuel economy in my split ute after the trip to the shootout.
Fully loaded with swap stuff and towing a Beetle on a trailer, it got 23 MPG, not bad I thought considering my Caravelle only gets 18 MPg when towing. I did go fairly easly on it though.
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Experienced when a car and it's driver are in mutual harmony, A unique driving experience, Pleasure, Satisfaction,
A feeling experienced by Volkswagen Drivers.
What do you get out of the Caravelle Dave??
Is it a 1.9 or 2.1???
Auto???
Does it have a Progressive :o (sorry - couldnt resist!)
Barry 😀
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Barry,
I get 22-25 mph out of the Caravelle, it's an auto 2.1
I am going to pull the injection off and stick on a progressive Weber kit, that will fix it!! should do 120mph and get 50 MPG then.
Hey did you ever see the progressive weber kit they sold for a beetle, It was called the "progressive induction system" or PIS for short.
Very suitable name.😀
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Experienced when a car and it's driver are in mutual harmony, A unique driving experience, Pleasure, Satisfaction,
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hehe i only manage to get about 23mpg from my bog stock 1600 bug... mmm although the furthest i travel is from city to five dock usually... lots of short trips <15mins
Jon
I get 22-25 mph out of the Caravelle, it's an auto 2.1
Damn, only 25 miles an hour? Do you wear a hat while driving?
😀:P
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Steve, I get 15 litres/100kmh from my '75 kombi with twin carb 1800, but that's loaded with lots of efficiency killing accessories including my sunvisor and full-length roofrack, and I tend to sit on 100+ kmh when running around locally. For long trip I tend to sit between 90-100, which helps the economy a bit.
🙂Kruizin Kol
Barry,
Ha, Your paying more $$$ to move all that ROOM around!! 😀 ever thought about putting a 2L Type4 and auto box in a splitty? Best of both worlds!
Ahhhhh fuel economy, my second favorite subject after ........um, use your imagination. I'm quite fanatical about how much fuel I use because I do over 70000k's a year which equals a lot of $$$. I used to get about 450k's from a 1600 tp in a bay dual cab,it dropped to 420k's with a 1835 with single weber (40 DCNF) but was worth it for the extra grunt. Reasonable for a 55l tank. The shitbox triton 2.6 I've been using can only manage 500 from a 69l tank. W hich is why I'm going to fit a TDI engine to my 70' Dual cab. That should give me a range of between 1100-1200k's from my custom 100l tank. It'll make the same power as the 1835 with twice as much torque. Plus I can brew my own diesel from vegetable oil at home!!! A win -win situation. Anyone found a TDI engine for me yet?:bounce
Just for interests sake, I took the 'reek from Drouin in Victoria to Coffs Harbour NSW 3 weeks ago, 3360km, flogged the crap out of it most of the way there and back 😎 and still got 34mpg (8.25l/100km) out of it's 1600tp with 4 into 1 freeflow exhaust and stock carby 😀
Thsi was in between busting valve springs!
PP.
WebGoat wrote:Just for interests sake, I......., 3360km, flogged the crap out of it most of the way there and back ..........Thsi was in between busting valve springs!
PP.
Could THIS have anything to do with the busted valve springs??? :P
By the way .... what is it you drive
What is a 'reek?
Futue te ipsum!!!
One of these . Eureka.
Ooooooohhhhh!!!!!! :thumb
Ahhh.....ummmm.... hence the bum end in the avitar!
OK .... I knew that!
I like!
Futue te ipsum!!!
1600 tp
electronic ignition
gt40 coil
DCNF 40
009 dist.
Empi Monza pipes
optimax fuel
Big right foot!
I haven't had a chance to really test the V6 Baja yet, but on the way to Valla I reckon I was getting 32-35mpg, and around town I seem to be getting around 28mpg.
The 1915 used to be around 28mpg city or highway, didn't seem to make a difference.
My 1776 with twin kadrons was good. It got around 38mpg on the highway with an Lbug gearbox and big tyres (so about 2500rpm on the highway).
Wes -
www.offroadvw.net - 200HP Quad Cam V6 in a VW Baja - with climate control...
🙂
www.taylorcycles.com.au - My DH MTB racing brothers shop.
blue74l wrote:WebGoat wrote:Just for interests sake, I......., 3360km, flogged the crap out of it most of the way there and back ..........Thsi was in between busting valve springs!
PP.
Could THIS have anything to do with the busted valve springs??? :P
By the way .... what is it you drive
What is a 'reek?
Sorry bloke, there's a subtle difference between "flogged the crap out of it" and "revved the ring out of it". :P
Eurekas look like they should go fast and even though I tend to drive it fairly hard, ('cause it's fun
😀) rarely does it see over 4200 rpm because all it does is make more noise anyway.
BTW, it's the second one from the right in Marks photo.
PP.
I do 10L/100km - 1600TP + PICT30 carb
1800 '74 bus:
On the long highway trip I got under 11l/100km (just), with a roofrack and visor, doing 80-90km/h mostly (about 330litres for just over 3000km).
In town it seems to be around 16 l/100km, but might be a little lower. And she has been having problems (solex's).
I was happy with the country run fuel use rate.
EDIT: Oh - here's another relevant thread for kombis:
http://www.aussieveedubbers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2876#pid178541
[Edited on 7-10-2004 by aggri1]
Aggri
i am very similar in my 2L 82 auto T2.5
Futue te ipsum!!!
9klms per litre in the splitty with 1916/ IRS this is sydney traffic driving
Keeping it real !
I have a 75 kombi van, stock standard 1800 with the cupbds, sink, stove etc and i normally get 22mpg and in the 68 bug, also stock standard, 1500 engine, i'm getting 32mpg. The bus is in need of a service, but once done, i'm getting mid to late 20's mpg. I drive both at about 80 - 90 kmph.
Living in the country, all my driving is 35 km + just to do the shopping and anything social, so i guess it may be a bit twisted in that i'm doing straight driving, ie no traffic lights, and its a half decent distance.
i plan to live forever.....so far so good.
about 10km/L with ether my 1600tp sbug or the 2L t4 powered sbug. but only about 12km/L with the 1700 with the twin barrel webber in a sbug
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I am running fuel consumption test on my 2.0litre efi T2.5 at the moment
I feel it is getting poor results as it seems quite thirsty and my tailpipe is very black, will check EFI system this weekend
on a trip from coffs here to all over QLD i done 1bout 1400-1500km 's and used about 150 L of fuel i thought my big right foot , dual kads and a fully load kombi would be more thirstier but obviously i done alright!!!
i find its freaking terrible around town i need to get them kads tuned!
cheers
rhys
it aint just cool its aircool'd
my 1600DP 1302 gets 10L/100km - around town driving
dad's 1200SP '59 bug gets 35litres/450km - freeway driving
my 82 T2.5 EFI is only getting around 16 mpg or 7km/litre :cry
I checked temp sensor , plugs and points last weekend and it all seems fine
maybe I gotta open up the airflow meter for minor adjustment
