The low fuel consumption competition thread
02-21-2006, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by whiteX
ha... finalli... i reach 8km/l eventhough i drive aggressively at times. guess after running for quite sometime the FC will actualli drop quite alot.. so happy, aniwei, i'm tinking if its the petrol i pump... still testing out though
cos my is around 11000 km and fuel consumption is still around 6km/L
02-21-2006, 06:53 PM
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Poor FC?
I am not trying to boast or anything but I have relatively pretty good FC or about what I had expected out of this car. Its about 
50% worse than my previous car (a 2litre Golf GTi) but am getting what I expected. They are both MT cars. I do about 50:50 city to highway driving.
I get around 8km/l or anything between 480 to 505 kms per tank with about one or two litres left in the tank. (ie past the low fuel mark.) I get about 290 to 305kms at the halfway mark of the indicator. I have never been accused of driving like a granny, if the number of current speeding tickets outstanding in Malaysia is anything to go by which is 9. Or an annual average of 3 speeding tickets (albeit in different states when I was working in the US.) But I also don't trying to redline it with every opportunity of 30metres of open road on the ECP either. But I do love the sound of the rotaries at high revs though.
My dad had always said that one of the indicators of skilful driving is how to drive without using the brakes a whole lot ie use gear change and/or anticipatory driving ie smooth driving. (But I also remember my mum yelling at my dad to brake a lot or to slow down a lot when I was a kid.
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He loved his sports cars until too many kids forced him to be more domesticated with his car choices.
I see a lot of Malaysian drivers (hey I am Malaysian too) in their Proton Sagas (sorry Morgan!!) accelerating like a bat out of hell onto the left lane to over-take only to realise that 20meters ahead there is a car blocking its path and then they will have to suddenly brake!
I don't know why the car is performing like this. Maybe its the new firmware, maybe I don't redline it enuf, lack of using the brakes or maybe its manual trans or I have a freak car?!! But all I know is that I seem make all sort of excuses to use the car -- driving across town to buy a box of toothpicks when I can go to the local convinient store or volunteering to drive or pick my wife to & from work nearly every day. The buses or cabs seem like good enuf modes of transport for her in my books in the past. So in many ways, she thinks the 8 has made me a better person!! So now, I actually tell her that I will pick her up form work... to save her a few bucks in cab fares!!! (which I highly doubt it is but i love driving the 8.)
50% worse than my previous car (a 2litre Golf GTi) but am getting what I expected. They are both MT cars. I do about 50:50 city to highway driving.I get around 8km/l or anything between 480 to 505 kms per tank with about one or two litres left in the tank. (ie past the low fuel mark.) I get about 290 to 305kms at the halfway mark of the indicator. I have never been accused of driving like a granny, if the number of current speeding tickets outstanding in Malaysia is anything to go by which is 9. Or an annual average of 3 speeding tickets (albeit in different states when I was working in the US.) But I also don't trying to redline it with every opportunity of 30metres of open road on the ECP either. But I do love the sound of the rotaries at high revs though.
My dad had always said that one of the indicators of skilful driving is how to drive without using the brakes a whole lot ie use gear change and/or anticipatory driving ie smooth driving. (But I also remember my mum yelling at my dad to brake a lot or to slow down a lot when I was a kid.
) He loved his sports cars until too many kids forced him to be more domesticated with his car choices.
I see a lot of Malaysian drivers (hey I am Malaysian too) in their Proton Sagas (sorry Morgan!!) accelerating like a bat out of hell onto the left lane to over-take only to realise that 20meters ahead there is a car blocking its path and then they will have to suddenly brake!
I don't know why the car is performing like this. Maybe its the new firmware, maybe I don't redline it enuf, lack of using the brakes or maybe its manual trans or I have a freak car?!! But all I know is that I seem make all sort of excuses to use the car -- driving across town to buy a box of toothpicks when I can go to the local convinient store or volunteering to drive or pick my wife to & from work nearly every day. The buses or cabs seem like good enuf modes of transport for her in my books in the past. So in many ways, she thinks the 8 has made me a better person!!
So now, I actually tell her that I will pick her up form work... to save her a few bucks in cab fares!!! (which I highly doubt it is but i love driving the 8.)
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02-21-2006, 07:29 PM
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I went for a road trip last sunday...
Driving mostly at constant throttle ard 140km/h.. Mostly highway driving... For a small part was driving 230 km/h..... (I was road tripping with evo's, sti's and s15's)....
I reset the odo when i filled up the tank. I did ard 315km (with ard 1/4 tank left).... I could have probably done 340km.. Please remember i am turbocharged!!!
Driving mostly at constant throttle ard 140km/h.. Mostly highway driving... For a small part was driving 230 km/h..... (I was road tripping with evo's, sti's and s15's)....
I reset the odo when i filled up the tank. I did ard 315km (with ard 1/4 tank left).... I could have probably done 340km.. Please remember i am turbocharged!!!
02-21-2006, 08:18 PM
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Think shifting at higher rpm or doing faster speed does not significantly affect fc. It is the start and stop that counts. Each time you brake, you lose the momentum(kinetic energy) that can carry it for a some distance. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Using higher rpm is less efficient(more heat loss) but it is not that significant to cause you to lose 1km/l(Maybe at most 0.5km/l). It is your driving style. Remember that if you brake at 90km/h cos you speed towards a red light and have to brake abruptly, the fuel you wasted could have let you move another 7-800m at 70km/h. That is where all your lost number goes.
02-21-2006, 08:28 PM
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my car's milage is at arnd 4000km plus. i'm actualli qutie suprise coz i drive quite aggressively at times for tis tank, and it got a FC same as my parents E class merc and a little more den my dad's 5 series... mayb urs is an auto? or u drive more aggressively den me? mine's a stock
02-21-2006, 08:35 PM
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Another suggestion: Change the music that you are playing in the car!! Faster music, faster the driver!
I am sure that this contributes to 40% of the increase FC.
So Morgan, no more Scorpians, Krokus or Marilyn Manson and play more Jaime Callum and I am sure that your FC will improve dramatically. ;-)
I am sure that this contributes to 40% of the increase FC.
So Morgan, no more Scorpians, Krokus or Marilyn Manson and play more Jaime Callum and I am sure that your FC will improve dramatically. ;-)
02-22-2006, 07:20 PM
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Anyone tried turning off the DSC to see the difference? I know there has been talk on this before but no real conclusions. MOre psychological diff in FC and torgue?
Hot season here now -- no real need for DSC. I have tried it off but not sure whether the car drives differently or not. But then stupid me, keep forgetting to switch the DSC off again everytime I re-start the engine. Not a very conclusive statistical test so far either.
Hot season here now -- no real need for DSC. I have tried it off but not sure whether the car drives differently or not. But then stupid me, keep forgetting to switch the DSC off again everytime I re-start the engine. Not a very conclusive statistical test so far either.
02-22-2006, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by lowrider
Another suggestion: Change the music that you are playing in the car!! Faster music, faster the driver!
I am sure that this contributes to 40% of the increase FC.
So Morgan, no more Scorpians, Krokus or Marilyn Manson and play more Jaime Callum and I am sure that your FC will improve dramatically. ;-)
I am sure that this contributes to 40% of the increase FC.
So Morgan, no more Scorpians, Krokus or Marilyn Manson and play more Jaime Callum and I am sure that your FC will improve dramatically. ;-)
Giving up hope for a 7-8km/L
02-22-2006, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by morganoh
I'm already listening to oldies, but no effect
Giving up hope for a 7-8km/L
Giving up hope for a 7-8km/L
If I rev it hard for a particular full tank, it still gives me about 6.6 to 7km/L.
Just wanna share my fuel issues with you guys.
02-23-2006, 04:32 AM
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Originally Posted by lowrider
I am not trying to boast or anything but I have relatively pretty good FC or about what I had expected out of this car. Its about 50% worse than my previous car (a 2litre Golf GTi) but am getting what I expected. They are both MT cars. I do about 50:50 city to highway driving.
I get around 8km/l or anything between 480 to 505 kms per tank with about one or two litres left in the tank. (ie past the low fuel mark.) I get about 290 to 305kms at the halfway mark of the indicator. I have never been accused of driving like a granny, if the number of current speeding tickets outstanding in Malaysia is anything to go by which is 9. Or an annual average of 3 speeding tickets (albeit in different states when I was working in the US.) But I also don't trying to redline it with every opportunity of 30metres of open road on the ECP either. But I do love the sound of the rotaries at high revs though.
My dad had always said that one of the indicators of skilful driving is how to drive without using the brakes a whole lot ie use gear change and/or anticipatory driving ie smooth driving. (But I also remember my mum yelling at my dad to brake a lot or to slow down a lot when I was a kid.)
He loved his sports cars until too many kids forced him to be more domesticated with his car choices.
I see a lot of Malaysian drivers (hey I am Malaysian too) in their Proton Sagas (sorry Morgan!!) accelerating like a bat out of hell onto the left lane to over-take only to realise that 20meters ahead there is a car blocking its path and then they will have to suddenly brake!
I don't know why the car is performing like this. Maybe its the new firmware, maybe I don't redline it enuf, lack of using the brakes or maybe its manual trans or I have a freak car?!! But all I know is that I seem make all sort of excuses to use the car -- driving across town to buy a box of toothpicks when I can go to the local convinient store or volunteering to drive or pick my wife to & from work nearly every day. The buses or cabs seem like good enuf modes of transport for her in my books in the past. So in many ways, she thinks the 8 has made me a better person!! So now, I actually tell her that I will pick her up form work... to save her a few bucks in cab fares!!! (which I highly doubt it is but i love driving the 8.)
50% worse than my previous car (a 2litre Golf GTi) but am getting what I expected. They are both MT cars. I do about 50:50 city to highway driving.I get around 8km/l or anything between 480 to 505 kms per tank with about one or two litres left in the tank. (ie past the low fuel mark.) I get about 290 to 305kms at the halfway mark of the indicator. I have never been accused of driving like a granny, if the number of current speeding tickets outstanding in Malaysia is anything to go by which is 9. Or an annual average of 3 speeding tickets (albeit in different states when I was working in the US.) But I also don't trying to redline it with every opportunity of 30metres of open road on the ECP either. But I do love the sound of the rotaries at high revs though.
My dad had always said that one of the indicators of skilful driving is how to drive without using the brakes a whole lot ie use gear change and/or anticipatory driving ie smooth driving. (But I also remember my mum yelling at my dad to brake a lot or to slow down a lot when I was a kid.
) He loved his sports cars until too many kids forced him to be more domesticated with his car choices.
I see a lot of Malaysian drivers (hey I am Malaysian too) in their Proton Sagas (sorry Morgan!!) accelerating like a bat out of hell onto the left lane to over-take only to realise that 20meters ahead there is a car blocking its path and then they will have to suddenly brake!
I don't know why the car is performing like this. Maybe its the new firmware, maybe I don't redline it enuf, lack of using the brakes or maybe its manual trans or I have a freak car?!! But all I know is that I seem make all sort of excuses to use the car -- driving across town to buy a box of toothpicks when I can go to the local convinient store or volunteering to drive or pick my wife to & from work nearly every day. The buses or cabs seem like good enuf modes of transport for her in my books in the past. So in many ways, she thinks the 8 has made me a better person!!
So now, I actually tell her that I will pick her up form work... to save her a few bucks in cab fares!!! (which I highly doubt it is but i love driving the 8.)Cheers to the man who share the same sentiment as I do ....... "smooth driving" ....
03-05-2006, 02:55 AM
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http://www.nopistons.com/forums/inde...howtopic=59835
Here is a little thread i found to help you guy that wanna be cheap :P ..hehe..
Here is a little thread i found to help you guy that wanna be cheap :P ..hehe..
03-05-2006, 05:26 AM
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487kms when yellow lights came on. I am starting to wonder whether the sales guy sold me a Mazda 3 instead of a RX8? Very concern now. ;-)
All SG road driving this week -- quite a few rush hour drives on ECP/AYE (to Shenton Way) and city driving? (Am over 512km in yellow warning light at the moment -- not sure how much more I am going to drive before chickening outand fill her up.)
My 8 is a freaky-dickie.
All SG road driving this week -- quite a few rush hour drives on ECP/AYE (to Shenton Way) and city driving? (Am over 512km in yellow warning light at the moment -- not sure how much more I am going to drive before chickening outand fill her up.)
My 8 is a freaky-dickie.
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