[crazikev]

760.8km on 45L ! :o

[hardk0re]

WOW!

DOUBLE what I get :P

[Oscar The Grouch]

hardk0re,Jul 26 2005, 10:16 PM Wrote:WOW!

DOUBLE what I get :P
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God bless the SPI. Kay you're gonna have to give some details here:

Ave speed?
City or Hwy? (I'm guessing highway)
Mods (if any)?
Octane level?
Manual or Automatic?
Any big time ICE?

[crazikev]

Ave. speed: 80-120 so prolly 100, started driving 90-95 around half when i noticed it was gonna be a record, and after a quarter mostly 88km/h
City or Hwy: 1- 340km trip from Niagara Falls to Apsley, All Hwy, with half the roads 80km, and the other half 100km/h roads
Mods: new windshield
Octane: 84? the cheap synoco
Auto
Any big time ICE: nope

[NOS2Go4Me]

Nice, good to see a fellow SPI owner pulling off what we did last summer.

I think I can still get 700ish or so from most of a tank, and that's before the UDP.

[Flofocus]

:huh:

You have aTDI? :lol:

[ANTHONYD]

I got 640 once.

[Flofocus]

ANTHONYD,Jul 27 2005, 08:52 AM Wrote:I got 640 once.
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In teh Zetec? wow.

I thought I was golden with my 525 <_<

[ANTHONYD]

Flofocus,Jul 27 2005, 08:53 AM Wrote:

ANTHONYD,Jul 27 2005, 08:52 AM Wrote:I got 640 once.
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In teh Zetec? wow.

I thought I was golden with my 525 <_<
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I used cruise control just about everywhere I could.

[nass]

I think my best was 600 ish or a lil bit over but not by much. I guess that's not too bad for a 2.0. In my Audi I could easily get 800k on the hwy at an average of 130k, it actually had a red line on 130 and if I set cruise there the trip computer gave me the best kms to tank distance.... wierd eh

[Flofocus]

how big was the tank in the audi?

[BrooksZX3]

sheesh lol how do you drive 88km/h :P I"m doing that in second :ph34r:

bah... I think svt really stands for Start Violating Throttle :D

[Focus Is Art]

here is the best I got

560ish km per 41L
Condition
130-140km non stop up and down the hill to Delaware with AIR on.

Never have touch 600km before.

[crazikev]

BrooksZX3,Jul 27 2005, 09:17 AM Wrote:sheesh lol how do you drive 88km/h  :P  I"m doing that in second :ph34r:

bah... I think svt really stands for Start Violating Throttle  :D
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traffic on a long road with only 2 lanes helps a lot

[SVT ZX3]

The SVT is a HOG on gas, and I'm still breaking it in so fuel economy is an oxymoron to me. :(

[Kuni1987]

I WANNA CRY!!!! i do alot of city driving and i just hit 300km for a tank... mind you i am very heavy footed.

[ZX3TUNING]

don't feel bad, the only time i see more than 300kms/tank is if i spend more than 40kms on the highway! :rolleyes:

heal-toe shifting is probably the biggest gas mileage killer. i can get an extra 30-40km out of a tank by not heal-toe shifting.

[dBlast]

ZX3TUNING,Jul 28 2005, 12:03 AM Wrote:heal-toe shifting is probably the biggest gas mileage killer. i can get an extra 30-40km out of a tank by not heal-toe shifting.
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So that (and the supercharger) is why I have only gotten about 380 max to the tank. I never realized that a few blips of the throttle when downshifting can chew up so much gas.

I am going to have to try that to see if I can save some gas. It's going to be hard to resist the urge to use all three pedals at the same time when braking into a corner. I get as much fun out of braking into a corner with heal-toe downshifting as I do accelerating out of a corner.

[nass]

Flofocus,Jul 27 2005, 01:28 PM Wrote:how big was the tank in the audi?
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70 litres :)

but mind you it also was a quattro so that in turn does use up more fuel. In the city it was not that great but on the HWY damn it was a dream, it was totally geared for HWY driving.

[02ztsian]

All this talk about km/tank means nothing! The only stat that means anything is mpg or L/100 km. Look, I have been unable to put more than 40 L in a tank ever, probably due to a fault (?) in Ford's design of the fuel fill tube and venting system ( I read this thread
http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/showthr...ght=fuel+filler
a while back to see if I could find a solution). I don't mean to harsh anyones buzz but so many things play a part in fuel economy that litres per tank is a real ballpark kinda figure. Lets have anyone who posts about fuel economy (good or bad!) show us figures: litres and klicks. Since we are on the subject, does the SPI get better mileage than the Zetec? I seem to get 34 mpg (Imp.) whether or not I drive in the city or on the highway. Wierd.