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!!! 
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.
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 
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.
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
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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.
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One of these . Eureka.
Ooooooohhhhh!!!!!! :thumb
Ahhh.....ummmm.... hence the bum end in the avitar!
OK .... I knew that!
I like!
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).
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) rarely does it see over 4200 rpm because all it does is make more noise
anyway.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
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Aggri
i am very similar in my 2L 82 auto T2.5
9klms per litre in the splitty with 1916/ IRS this is sydney traffic driving
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.
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
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
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