I drove from brisbane to perth and kept the details of how many litres i put in the beast and i got an average of 12L/100. Which was pretty damn good i thought and that was sitting on 110 most of the way. I checked the kilometres i did on the net and not from the odometer.
It was in a 1303L bug and had a 1916, 40mm inlet valves, 40mm webers and the car was filled with mine and brothers stuff at about 17kgs each. Definitely worth the money i payed to get the carbs tuned to the engine, probably payed for itself i would say.
It was also worth doing the drive.
I have a client with a trike with a 96 rwhp, 2165 dual Webered VW engine that gets consistantly 10L/100. Marcus has a similar engine in his bay single cab, his fuel economy improved when he upgraded his engine from the original 1600 !!!
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE
Interesting to see all the variation...
Our current long-term AVERAGES with two 1600's (both type 3's):
Original all-Standard 1600 (Auto. trans): 11.7 L/100km or 24.1mpg.
New (Mex.) standard 1600 (Man. trans.): 9.2 L/100km or 30.8mpg
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Fully loaded kombi 1835cc -34pict carb Toowoomba-Mt Isa 16lt/100k average speed about 100kph
2002 VW Polo Toowoomba (qld) -Warrnambool (vic) 22hrs non stop, aircon going , I wasn't overtaken once. Average speed ffffast. 6.2lt/100k. You cant deny technology and aerodynamics. With only 55kw at my disposal the polo only came up short on real steep hills, like the kombi I guess.........
diesel?
71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE
No , 1.4lt 16 valve petrol. We only use 98 octane because it can use all the help it can get. mmmmmm........ I wonder how that engine would go in a bug!
My T3 2.1 kombi has been getting slowly worse as far as economy goes. Didn't notice really,but power had been dropping off too for some time. Well on the weekend, after towing a manx racer to Casino, fuel economy went out the window....360km on 70 liters, and hills nearly killed the bus, turns out 3 of the 4 injectors had spray patterns like a dribbling sponge......she's going like a rocket now, economy has improved out of sight. Point.......state of tune goes along way towards getting good economy.
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE
