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I got my series 2 stagea stock as and was getting about 350ks a tank, so i had a carbon clean done on the fuel system cost me $120 and i was then getting 450km to 550km a tank then I had aftermarket ecu, intercooler, fuel pressure regulator, splitfire ignition coils, 3 inch mandrel turbo back exhaust, eboost2 running 14 psi, 500hp intank fuel pump, apexi power intake, and now i get around 300kms to 350kms a tank now I want to sell the beast.

I got my series 2 stagea stock as and was getting about 350ks a tank, so i had a carbon clean done on the fuel system cost me $120 and i was then getting 450km to 550km a tank then I had aftermarket ecu, intercooler, fuel pressure regulator, splitfire ignition coils, 3 inch mandrel turbo back exhaust, eboost2 running 14 psi, 500hp intank fuel pump, apexi power intake, and now i get around 300kms to 350kms a tank now I want to sell the beast.

hey ben you sound like your driving like your username suggests, but on a more serious note i hope your not running 14psi on a std turbo, and have you had the car tuned since doing mods, fuel usage is way to high , if your driving hard ok consumption is always gunna be shit, but with your mods and tuned properly you should be doing better than that,

anyway hope you sus it out rather than sell it,

goodluck leigh.

I just filled up 59.91lt to the brim, I had done 407k's and it works out to about 14.7/100k's after my first full tank on my stag (only just got it :nyaanyaa: )

thats with a bit of a lead foot throughout the whole tank.... :cheers:

my question is - when the empty light comes on - how many litres does that mean it has left in the tank??

when the empty light came on in my 34 i had 15lt left in the tank......

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well then i must try and drive my car till it get really low. i have only ever been able to squze 55 lt into my car whenever i have filled it up and i normally have driven anywhere from 450 to just over 500 km when i fill up. it seems to me that there is still a fair bit of fuel left when the gauge reads empty.

FULOCK i usually always put fuel in once the light comes on and I always get 58L in... so if the tank is 68L (as said a couple of posts before yours :D) then you'd have 10 ltrs once the fuel light comes on.

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hey ben you sound like your driving like your username suggests, but on a more serious note i hope your not running 14psi on a std turbo, and have you had the car tuned since doing mods, fuel usage is way to high , if your driving hard ok consumption is always gunna be shit, but with your mods and tuned properly you should be doing better than that,

anyway hope you sus it out rather than sell it,

goodluck leigh.

Yeah had it tuned and yes i am running 14psi on standard turbo was told that was the maximum it could handle. I have wondered if I should take it to someone else to see if it has been tuned do you know of anyone i live on the gold coast

Yeah had it tuned and yes i am running 14psi on standard turbo was told that was the maximum it could handle. I have wondered if I should take it to someone else to see if it has been tuned do you know of anyone i live on the gold coast

Hey buddy just reiterating what others have said.

14psi is what it takes to pretty much kill the turbo instantly. You'd want to step down from 14 a fair bit to make it safe enough to last.

I had mine on 11psi and I think you'll find most people on here keep it around 10-11psi with the stock turbo.

Replacing the turbo with something as good or better is going to be an expensive operation but you do have options and the cost varies from ~$1000 to ~$2500 depending on what you want...and the more expensive ones aren't always better. :P

Mine was averaging 13-14L/100km on the standard turbo (8psi) and 10L/100km on the highway.

Try to get it fixed a bit before selling it cos it will really harm your sale price if the fuel economy isn't great.

I have a M35 Stage and arount town I get about 14L / 100 and on the highway I average 10L / 100

I've done 2 full tanks in city driving (90% of the time just feathering the gas pedal). Both occasions have clocked 500kms which is about 6.25 kms per litre of fuel, or 16L/100kms.

For a later model engine, i think that's pretty pathetic. One of the reasons why I sold my R34 was to get something that gives you good mileage. It's certainly disappointed me so far..

Another note. Spoke to Tony from North Shore Prestige where I got the car from. He suggested a few things to increase economy.

- change plugs

- clean injectors (if they do need cleaning but unlikely he said)

- clean the afm

- get an ebc so you can wind down the boost to say 5 pounds when you dont need the power.

- dont drive with a heavy foot, which im not anyway.

Another note. Spoke to Tony from North Shore Prestige where I got the car from. He suggested a few things to increase economy.

- change plugs

- clean injectors (if they do need cleaning but unlikely he said)

- clean the afm

- get an ebc so you can wind down the boost to say 5 pounds when you dont need the power.

- dont drive with a heavy foot, which im not anyway.

I am getting around 7.5km/litre around town and if I can get some highway driving in (M2 or M5) I am getting this up to 7.8 - 8.0. It is driving a bit like an old lady and not being in a hurry but even when pushing a bit harder I can still get 7.5. The difference seems to be if you can keep moving. The stop start traffic kills the economy.

Cheers

Andy

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