How many miles to a full tank you lot get then?
How many miles to a full tank you lot get then?
not many think about 120 - 150miles.
all depends on the style of driving and importantly how your carb is set up!!
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I got about 30/35mpg with mine. I am not a boy racer though and do not feel the need to travel from A to B as soon as possible. hitting the red line constantly from the lights!
120-150miles LOL thats ridiculous...i get about 120-130 from £20 with on off driving
lol, well to be honest i have just found a leak from petrol tank, this could be the reason!!Originally Posted by sphinX-B17GTT
Let me guess, the good old yellow bung on the drivers side...
It could be that irratic driving down the A406 last night lollol, well to be honest i have just found a leak from petrol tank, this could be the reason!!
thats the one, lol!
Drain it as much as possible (or nail it til its almost empty)... undo the bolts and drop it down so you can access the bung.
Using a soldering iron, melt the yellow inner skin to the grey outer skin (be warned, the yellow plastic is much thinner than the grey). For added sealing, shove some araldite into the hole, followed by a thick cork/rubber bung, then fill in with some more araldite all around the edge.
dont mind gettin my hands dirty, but that aint for me. need to get someone to do this for me.
any offers?
Fancy a drive to the C-Side massive?
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The Raider has a standard engine set-up, rebuilt carb, 12psi, all running well and I get between 29 and 32mpg.
Thats using it mainly a 15 mile country road run with hard acceleration most of the time.
Not sure what that is to a tank.
At 16psi i get 27-29mpg, thats A34 driving EVERYDAY and poodling to and from sites most days, unless someone really annoys me by sitting on my arse i dont go over 70mph!
id have to stop 20 times to put fuel
i have a tank in the garage that im sure isn't a leaky one..
my 5 is sheeite on fuel, when used everyday i drove like miss daisy, but now i use it for fun the costs are getting silly..
£30 = 120 or so..
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done a 370 mile round trip down2 b`mouth the other day 4 a weddin and used a tank and half.... think im doin around 28mpg at best. didnt hang about mind
frix, was it you that zipped past us in the 3 5's coming out of ace cafe last night?
if it was and you caught up with bodell i can see where the juice is going, haha.
nice car though mate.
i don't know how many miles i get from a tank. the speedo usually stops working after 12 miles.
what do the marks on the std fuel gauge stand for.?
whenever i get asked how many mpg my car does im clueless
I can still get 300 odd miles from a tank in the van, if driven reasonably. Prolonged periods on boost & it drinks the fuel, id say low double figures at a guess.
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440km's to a tank,thats without using the aux tank or warning light,i hope to improve on it with a different carb
Last edited by michael tierney; 18-09-2008 at 08:30.
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just filled up 215 miles to a tank. running 25psi with some boosting but usually just pootle along.
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