Petrol consumption

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:16 pm

What is the petrol consumption on a 1600 twin port supposed to be (per km) ?

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:22 pm

Sorry.... per litre

Post by **calooker** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:00 pm

Just prior to selling my 71 bug with twin Solex 34's I was getting about 12km's per L mostly open road.

Surge · Post by **Surge** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:04 pm

I was getting about 8.4liters/100km or 11.9km/liter on my 1600 TP with a 1800 Golf carb.
About 70% of that was open road but then again the N1 isn't exactly open road between PTA and JHB during rush hour.

flatfourfan · Post by **flatfourfan** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:39 pm

On the speedster after my makkie sorted it out I got 13-14km/l on it........car only weighed 700kgs though.

Post by **Tony Z** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:11 pm

at 90 on the highway, I used to get 6.5l/100km

4agedub · Post by **4agedub** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:07 pm

Fuel consumption... who cares

. On my red bug, before stripping the engine I got roughly 10km/l when driving it nicely. But that rarely happened.

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:31 am

4agedub wrote:Fuel consumption... who cares . On my red bug, before stripping the engine I got roughly 10km/l when driving it nicely. But that rarely happened.

EFI works wonders

Who needs carbs

flatfourfan · Post by **flatfourfan** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:33 am

The downside is Price........

Nice set of carbs goes for about R3500.

EFI done properly with mapping and tuning is about double that AT LEAST.

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:38 am

flatfourfan wrote:The downside is Price........

Nice set of carbs goes for about R3500.

EFI done properly with mapping and tuning is about double that AT LEAST.

True, but the pros outweigh all of the cons...

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:41 am

My view on the subject...

I'm old-school, I like the idea of, for example, an upped Beetle engine in a - wait for it - Beetle.

Twin carbs are part of dub's history, and it's classic.

Let's not forget the lovely growl you get from them.

...but that's me, and I respect that angle.

N.

flatfourfan · Post by **flatfourfan** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:42 am

bigtime.

daily driveability, not having to constantly adjust the carbs, fuel consumption those are just a few.

flatfourfan · Post by **flatfourfan** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:44 am

Merlin wrote:My view on the subject...

I'm old-school, I like the idea of, for example, an upped Beetle engine in a - wait for it - Beetle.

Twin carbs are part of dub's history, and it's classic.

Let's not forget the lovely growl you get from them.

...but that's me, and I respect that angle.

N.

Nic, you're such a mincer.........

beetles came out with EFI as well you know???

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:51 am

I'm a big fan of the GermanLook movement, so EFI is just something that I always wanted to do...

In my case, I'm going to use some old VW EFI manifolds with modern injectors and management..

Should be interesting...

4agedub · Post by **4agedub** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:54 am

The downside to efi is price... a good set of throttles, fuel pump pipes, ecu etc will probably set you back over R10k

I'm currently looking at making a intake manifold where you can use your carb as a throttle body and a single injector. This should bring costs down for a stockish engine.