Fuel

[GODTHRILA]

realised my o2 sensors were fitted but the plastic conectors were not hooked up. Now they are hooked up the car seems to run a little better and I am hoping the km's/tank will go up a little. Just filled up today 65L of the good stuff... lets see how long it lasts.

[Kaido_RR]

316.3 k's

yay someone is like me!

i get like 300km from 40-45l

[Cake]

then you'd be doing around 400kms per tank mikey

[R31 Chick]

20DET silvertop getting 550kms on average now to a full tank since the Wolf was fitted and tuned on easy driving. On boost it uses a heck load more (to be expected).

[KeeFy]

pod + exhaust + fmic. 350kms -> 50Lits. Need to get it checked out sooner or later.

[Pal]

Interesting..

Ive allways gone BP Ultimate in my import cars but I have heard this about Vortex 3 times now..

maybe we should do our own little mythbusters style test and see how it turns out..

Vortex Vs BP ultimate..

i found that i can get a few more k's outta vortex but watch the pinging increase. not worth it ! i think vortex is only 95. will only use it in the middle of winter if i need to. think the vortex 98 is even better than bp98 but dont sell it over here

[play r 32]

vortex is 96 i think, where do they sell vortex 98? eastern states?

[god's rx]

i got 500km out of a bit less than a full tank last time, which includes my stupidly ridiculous high idle of 1500rpm wen warm hahaha

worked out to about 10L / 100km (better than the ol' VR commonwhore)

[Tofu]

315km is what I average on a fulltank of gas, running 1.5bar.

[Nizmo]

hmmm im going to have to fill up the tank in the zed and try this cos she drinks fuel like nothing on earth - thought she would be better than the Skyline but seems to be the same. On her little information dial thing she reckons she's getting 7.8L per 100 ..... which is like corolla fuel useage and she certainly drinks more than that .... maybe i just didnt see the 1 in front of the 7 ..... cos 17.8L per 100 would be far more accurate in my opinion.

[fr0st]

Niz, you can work it properly with the trip meter. Completely fill it up and reset the trip meter. Next time you fill up take down how many liters you put in and the KM's you did and work it out from there.

Its something like Liters * 100 / kilometers

[Pal]

vortex is 96 i think, where do they sell vortex 98? eastern states?

yeah, over east. gotta refinery here and still get crap fuel

[WogsRus]

i managed to finaly get 400 km out of a tank on shell premium, yeehhhaaaa.

[gazza750]

i managed to finaly get 400 km out of a tank on shell premium, yeehhhaaaa.

pity its only 95 octane

ihave heard shell and caltex have made an arrangement with bp ( the only fuel supplier in W.A.) to carry 98 octane

so it looks like no matter where we buy our 98 octane it will be bp ultimate just re labeled either shell or caltex

[WogsRus]

Yeah the problem is that only BP here in Tas sells Optimax, and my car guzzles it BAD. It is not the same fuel as on the mainland, it sux.

[gazza750]

well i filled up yest morning 400 k's 65 litres works out to 17miles per gallon pretty good figures for a gtr running 1 bar boost with 3 inch front and dumps into hiflow and 4 inch cat back and pods

[diamondjo]

I'm lucky to get 350km to a tank running 7psi all the time. I'm gonna try some injector cleaner and might try cleaning the sensors. But I'm in the city the whole time and my foot is quite heavy so I don't think I'm doing too badly though. Tell you what, it's a shock after driving a charade for seven years! I used to get 500km to a 35L tank of fuel doing the same sort of driving. 600km if I was doing country runs.

[Flash89]

filled up today for the cruise. we did around 190 to 200 km of driving and i have just gone past 1/4 tank

[sam5709]

i filled up as well and i went just passed 3/4 tank

[lanky71]

I do hwy driving but also stop start driving and get about max. 580km out of the tank, but average is around 530km with the fuel light just coming on and takes 55 litres its a 65 litre tank.

Thats with a little bit of lead footing as well so its not bad for such a powerful car other four cylinder cars I have owned only get like 650km so the extra couple of dollars means nothing for the performance enhancement.

I run mainly Vortex 98 or V-Power - Haven't tried the V-Power Racing as yet only because every shell i pull into I can't seem to get the bowser with it, but anyone know if putting that ethanol blend in the skylines is bad? As I have heard different things and not sure whethers it a good idea to try or not.

98 R34 GT-T Sedan.

Edited November 26, 2006 by lanky71