Re: gas mileage

[drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Dirk Schneider wrote:

Hi Dirk!  Hope all is well.

I use the following "trick" to translate l/100km to mpg:

Divide 283 by your l/100km and you get miles per Imp gallon (I use this to
help my metric challenged friends understand how good the mileage is with
my diesels).

Divide 236 by your l/100km and you get miles per US gallon.

10L/100km = 28.3 mpg Imperial (283/10=28.3)

10L/100km = 23.6 mpg US (236/10=23.6)

Hope this helps,

Drew



> 
> btw. somebody has the formula to translate "l/100km" into "mpg" ?
> I'm just to tired to do this at this time of day... :-)
> 
> Greets Dirk
> '83 SCIROCCO GTX 1.8l EX carbed      "the powerful fuel saver"
> '84 SCIROCCO GTX 1.8l DX inj.            "the thirsty snow plow"
> www.Scirocco2.de
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > so if everyone is getting such good mileage, how come mine is so shitty?
> > I have some kind of cam, headers, exhaust, lots of bolt ons as well, but I'm
> > only getting about 18-20 mpg.  Maybe my tranny is different?  Mine revs
> > about 4000 at 120km/h (75 mph?) is this the same as others?  Or maybe I need
> > to get my timing checked?
> > 
> > Casey
> > 84 Wolfsburg Roc
> > 
> 
> 
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Drew MacPherson, Network Analyst, University of Guelph

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