just wondering if anyone could give me a rough estimate of the miles per gallon of a 2 litre dohc locost, assumiong its a similar weight to that of
the 'book' car?
Cheers, Theo
30
you'll be lucky!
i can only ever get about 25-30 out of a 1.6 pinto. it fair drinks when you press on!
given how it'll be driven, i'd say more like low to middling 20s
tom
They must hire old ladies to get the fuel ratings claimed on the stiker when you buy it new.
My 2006 claims 26 city and 32 highway...I dont think I have ever seen that....but then again I have a larger right foot.
Like any car it varys wildly depending on the journey. My pinto and type 9 gives 30 or more on a steady 60-70 mile an hour run out on dual carriageways etc. On a blat with lots of loud pedal use that drops to anything as low as 15 mpg.
I struggle to get over 20 with pinto on tuned head and 38 DGAS around the doors. On a run to Stoneleigh i averaged 24 which i thought was good.
I know a guy with VX XE on throttle bodies who claims 30 on a run is possible with care.
From talking to people with similar cars there seems to be more cudos from claiming the lowest figures!!! When you get them on the road you soon learn
how seductive the exhaust and induction notes and the idea of driving economically somehow seems to go out of the window
Fuel Injection or carbs?
Dizzy or 3D electronic ignition?
Carbs+Dizzy = <25mpg
FI+3D electronic ignition = >30mpg
I have the latter set-up and it's 1600cc but I regularly get 35+mpg and anyone who has been on the South Brum trips will tell you we don't
hang around
Fuel Injected Zetec 2.0l - Type 9 box
Roughly 30mpg on steady driving with the occassional blat.
Flat out is 10-15mpg (but it is overfuelling quite a bit)
I don't think anything you 'thrash' has good mpg
Hmmm about 12mpg on the past 2 tanks although it is an old Essex 3.0 V6 in mine 
When out on a howl, about 20mpg, but on a ride out with the Mrs (she screams if I go over 50mph) I can get 50-65mpg from injected 2.0 pinto
I average about 20 mpg. Much less if booting about. Managed to get one tank (20L ish) to disappear inside 30 mins! Was good fun though. I think I
was doing about 10-12mpg.
not tested mine yet but ill be happy with any thing more than 10
Not sure, but I think while I am hillclimbing it drops to single figures
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while I am hillclimbing it drops to single figures
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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
I can get 50-65mpg from injected 2.0 pinto
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Originally posted by TangoMan
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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
I can get 50-65mpg from injected 2.0 pinto
My 1.8 litre jenvey throttlebodied zetec anglia van only returns around 20mpg. The tank is only about 5 gallons so I can only get 100 miles per tank.
1.8 zetec mojo on gsxr TBs. Daily 10 mile run to work gives me 36mpg...
Pinto with Megajolt and R1 carbs and a heavy right foot gives me around 25mpg.
ok, i have one in my sierra
I see a max of 360 to a tank (60l) before the needle is worryingly into the red!
so that works out at roughly 27 to a gallon
oh and i can get it as low as 190 to a tank as well, works out at about 14 to the gallon!
but they can do better -- most people see well into the 400 to a tank i na sierra, so should be easily possible in a locost
Was going to put a post asking how you guys were getting worse mpg than my worn out 2.3L/3400lb beaters..... then I remembered there were two
different sized gallons I guess in my camaro with 94 octane I was only getting 7.5 british mpg Oh well, it was fun.
So why did the yanks change the size of a gallon anyhow?