My Melbourne Trip

[DallasQLD]

If your going on a long drive on the boring highway and your going to be on cruise control all the way like I was I reckon you could get away with normal fuel even.

The car is just humin along and not working so whay fuel up with the real stuff?

In Tarcutta by the way Premium is 17c a litre dearer than ordinary juice!. Only that their big breakfast was $9.95 I would have driven off!

[sdrew]

DallasQLD

I am pretty keen to undertake the drive in the other direction. I.e. Melbourne to the Gold Coast for Indy.

How did you go with the drive down, any areas where the coppers were heavier than normal? What sort of speed to you set your cruise to? and one last one (!) How long did the drive take?

[Adam]

G'day Alxr6t,

is your ute a manual?

cause I'm averaging about 17 l/100 km in the city with the auto!

And that's when I'm being conservative. The car is still pretty tight with only 2300km, but I'm certainly thinking it is thirstier than I expected.

This might be a good argument for the manual boys over the autos...

My ute is an auto. I fully expected to use a lot of fuel but it's never happened, I've done 2700km, the economy has been pretty much the same since day 1.

[Turbo6man]

Yeah the autos just can't achieve the fuel economy of the manual beacause of the way the ECU is set up to always unlock the torque converter with even the slightest throttle and allowing the engine to sit on 2000 rpm all the time.

The only time you can get the auto to run under 2000 is to be backed right off and unfotunately our roads aren't all downhill so this is a bit difficult to achieve.

[JUSTXR6T]

getting between 12.5 to 14.5 l/100k around town

no country trips yet car 1 month old now have 4000ks up

:( at 3000k service someone at dealer reversed into front

guard NOT HAPPY

[Trumpy]

Nice drive

I'd like to go down soon...maybe October :D

Ahhh, now it makes sense. You were hinting about the big anouncement you were about to make re the Ford tour.

Its all clear now :idea:

Economy? Mine normally sits around 11 - 12.5, which is split up 50/50 highway/city commute.

Have seen as low as 9.2 average (computer) on the Hume from Sydney to Albury, highest I have seen from a tank is about 18.

[Cro]

Ahhh, now it makes sense. You were hinting about the big anouncement you were about to make re the Ford tour.

Its all clear now :idea:

B)

[cuspub]

For everyone's information, the GCG turbo kit is available in Melbourne through Autotechnique (03-9763 1195), with distributors coming on stream in every state shortly.

It will be EPA tested within the next couple of weeks, further to which the system design allows for significant improvement thanks to all of the components needed for serious Late model camira crunching included in the comprehensive Stage One kit.

I noticed in one post that the Stage One system lacks a modified exhaust (as does Stage Two), which is true irrespective of suggestions that the stock exhaust system suffers from back pressure.

The company behind the development of the kit has proven via engine and chassis dyno testing (they have one of the best equipped engine dyno facilities in the country) that the stock system is in fact extremely free flowing. Their testing has in fact shown that a single 3 1/2" system only results in around a 7 kW improvement - which for around say $1800 is damned expensive in my book.

Given that the factory system includes twin 2 1/4" pipes that in effect equals the volume achieved with a 3 1/4" pipe, you can understand why. And remember that a new exhaust will probably lack shielding which isn't a good thing given the plastic fuel tank!

Testing has also proven that the stock fuel pump is more than adequate to equal the needs of the Stage Two kit (275 rear wheel kilowatts on a DynoLogic dyno - around 300 kW on a Dyno Dynamics Dyno). So spending money on a higher flowing fuel pump also is not necessary.

The earlier post also mentioned the Xede ChipTorque computer. This is very true, with the results of collaboration between the companies in question resulting in incredibly smooth operation and running, and amazing fuel consumption (unless the right foot is heavily provoked!)

Stay tuned for more news on the system.

[Turbo6man]

cuspub> some good info ...

[Zeke]

Cuspub

That all makes sense , except the bit about the shielding, which I think in the standard exhaust, is all up at the front end and not near the fuel tank.

Also calls into question the claims re increased power with the deletion of the centre muffler.

But, if the straight thru' centre pipes are made up as an off-the-shelf. bolt-on (or off) item, as has been suggested in another thread, I'd have a hard job resisting the temptation.

zeke