Re: 8v prices

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

Hmm... it was the end of a long day!
Strangely enough, I've always got better economy from fuel-injected over 
carburated. My wife's GT has an audi 1.8 with a 2E2 carburettor and I 
invariably get better economy, even in similar driving conditions.

regards,



Ewan Hopkins...

'85 Storm 2.0
'86 GT 1.8



>From: SCIROCCO2@t-online.de (Dirk Schneider)
>Reply-To: "Dirk Schneider" <Dirk@Scirocco2.de>
>To: "Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>
>CC: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: 8v prices
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:58:07 +0200
>
> >What do you get from it?  I have always got aroung 35mpg ( that's 
>imperial
> >gallons, not US) both from my 1.8 8v and the 2.0L 8v which replaced it. 
>By
> >my calculation, thats 4.78km/litre. Careful driving would probably push
>that
> >up a bit!
>
>you SHOULD drive more carefully then ! :-))
>4.78km/litre would be 21litres/100km, that sounds more like
>you have a V8 and not a 8v ;-)
>
>35miles/imp.gallon are IMHO about 8.1 l/100km or 12,37km/litre.
>
>I hate that conversions  too :-)
>
>Greets
>Dirk
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