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 68AutoBug
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Yes , the US Gallon IS Smaller than the "normal" imperial Gallon... When is a gallon not a gallon?? When its 4 pints...imperial or US ???
Who knows...
I'm glad the litres and liters are the same... Well I hope they are..
Very interesting all the info on Premium Unleaded fuel... I tell everyone to use normal unleaded in their VWs... I prefer to use regular unleaded
BOGAS in My Lancer , it has ethanol, made from wheat etc in it. The US government has made it compulsory - that all petrol sold in the US -Will have
between 5 & 20% of ethenol made from sugar cane in it. I can't remember exactly the percentage. I do believe that Premium unleaded
doesn't do any harm to engines, and does make some go much better. I haven't heard of Vortex fuel .... where is it from ??:o
I believe that LRP will disappear in the future... Very little is being sold.:P
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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Castrol Magnatech engine oil
I have been using Castrol Magnatech engine oil in MY 2001 Lancer [16v] and it quietens the tappets etc noticebly after changing the Valvoline oil thatthe local dealer uses. [free service for 3 years] I am thinking about using it My 68autobug instead of Valvoline XLD, when I finally get it on the
road.:o My Son is trying 30 grade Oil at the moment in His 1600tp Baja and it seems to be running cooler. I think He uses Penrite Oil...:o He IS
thinking of trying Castrol Magnatech next time...:o
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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| posted on October 15th, 2002 at 10:48 AM |
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i've been using magnatec in my bus for over a year now (about 4 oil changes). no leaks no smoke, but no other noticable differences either. i
guess the benefits or otherwise will become evident many years on.
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| posted on October 15th, 2002 at 11:38 AM |
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Yeah Chris, I'm working on Thursday nights now so I haven't been able to get to Club Veedub meetings for ages. I miss 'em. I love
sitting up the back and heckling the snake oil salesmen. The last one I remember was the one selling the in-line fuel cannister full of tin balls,
which 'replaces' the lead in petrol !
I actually dropped my Kombi's compression down to 7.1 when I built it, and she runs beautifully on normal unleaded. It eats Hiaces and Urvans for
breakfast. I tried one tank of LRP as an experiment, and noticed that the idle became unstable. Going back to ULP and the idle smoothed out again. I
haven't tried Optimax yet but will do so if I can get it for under 95c a litre!
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| posted on October 15th, 2002 at 11:39 AM |
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By the way, I do notice how much more it costs to fill the Kombi's 60-litre tank compared with my old Beetle's. When I first started uni
back in '82, I could fill the Beetle's tank with a $10 note. I can't fill the Kombi for less than $50 nowadays!
Now as for gallons - Australia being a British colony used the British, or Imperial, gallon which was 277.4 cubic inches. It was made up of 4 Imperial
quarts, or 8 Imperial pints, or 32 gills or 160 fluid ounces. The British parliament had standardised the gallon (and all other measurements too) with
the Weights and Measures Act of 1824.
Now the US had been trading with Britain before then, when there were no defined measurement standards. Before 1824 the gallon was smaller, and when
the Brits went to the larger standard 277.4 cubic inch gallon in 1824, the Yanks did not. They kept using the older and smaller 'Queen Anne'
gallon of 231 cubic inches. The US gallon also divided into US pints and US quarts, but of course they are also smaller than UK pints and quarts.
In modern metric terms, a US gallon works out at 3.7854 litres, and an Imperial gallon is 4.546 litres.
Thank God for the metric system !
[Edited on 15-10-2002 by Phil74Camper]
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| posted on October 15th, 2002 at 01:59 PM |
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Hmmm...my Kombi fills are more around the $40 mark, does that mean our '76 camper has a non-standard tank?
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| posted on October 16th, 2002 at 01:23 AM |
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Phil - You've been at uni since '82 - isn't it about time you graduated?
As for the Shell claims from Flat4 - can you get them in writing? Seems like some easy money from a legal suit there - could make a lot of aussies
richer!
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| posted on October 18th, 2002 at 06:11 PM |
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(Chuckles) Oh I graduated all right, I just try not to act like it!
Nah I'm sure Kom's Kombi has a stock tank. I always seem to find I need to fill up on those days of the weeks when the price is higher, and
thus pay more. If I'm lucky I can get a fill-up for $42-$45, but that doesn't seem very often.
Which day of the week is supposed to be cheapest in Sydney again? Is it Monday or Tuesday? If I can get Optimax for less than, say, 95c I will try it.
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| posted on October 18th, 2002 at 07:56 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by 70AutoStik
As for the Shell claims from Flat4 - can you get them in writing? Seems like some easy money from a legal suit there - could make a lot of aussies
richer!
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I keep fuel records for my Turbo Beetle which requires Premium or above. I always use Optimax - only one tank of Premium and two tanks of BP Ultimate.
The premium I obtained in Orbost returned a country driving fuel economy of 8.03 litres per 100 km. The next tank was Optimax (which was under almost
the same conditions) and I achieved 7.34 litres per 100 km.
Two tanks is not statistically significant, but I'm sold. Also, I achieve some of the best fuel economy figures of newbeetle.org's 1.8t
fleet, even though I am a self-confessed lead foot. In over 40 tanks, I've yet to go above 9.3 l/100 km, which is way better than the 11 or 12
l/100 km some of them get.
Andrew
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| posted on October 18th, 2002 at 08:18 PM |
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Fuel economy to me did not appear to be any better using vortex or optimax.... but then my engine is a preformance one so mayhaps stock engines are
going to get the best results.
Edit---> Economy wise
[Edited on 18-10-2002 by Quickbug]
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| posted on October 18th, 2002 at 11:12 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by vanderaj
I keep fuel records for my Turbo Beetle which requires Premium or above. I always use Optimax - only one tank of Premium and two tanks of BP Ultimate.
The premium I obtained in Orbost returned a country driving fuel economy of 8.03 litres per 100 km. The next tank was Optimax (which was under almost
the same conditions) and I achieved 7.34 litres per 100 km.
"self-confessed leadfoot" and, I believe, a rather high compression ratio - I know I often warn people against too high a CR, but in a case
such as yours (where you can get and afford optimax,) you will move the burn rate back into a range that you can tune to optimum performance. I still
contend that optimax will not provide significant performance in a stock engine.
Two tanks is not statistically significant, but I'm sold.
Yes, it's not statistically accurate; but it does suggest it helped in your circumstances - maybe you should mention what you're running.
I'm not trying to start a fight; I just don't believe some marketing hype (and optimax isn't available here - we only recently got
premium.) 
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| posted on October 18th, 2002 at 11:33 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by 70AutoStik
| Quote: | Yes, it's not
statistically accurate; but it does suggest it helped in your circumstances - maybe you should mention what you're running.
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Well, I have the 110 kW 1.8t AWW engine (the one with the K03/K04 turbo part, which is the detuned version of the 132 / 165 kW engine in the Audi A4 /
S3 / TT). A simple chip gets me 132 kW, and chip + larger injectors + CAI + 0.8 bar FPR + bigger exhaust = 165 kW with no stress on the engine. Shame
there's only 2 wheels to drive it through :-)
My engine's ECU has a complex fuel map, and all the bells and whistles for anti-pinging / emissions / VVT / etc, MAF (argh), O2 sensors, 20 V
head, so it can definitely make use of better fuel when it sees it.
Andrew
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