3.9l D1 mileage

Hi Eraser - thanks for re-posting as you have done.

My D2 gets what your getting on the highway or a smidge better - manual. BUT the LPG only uses 5l/100k more per 100k. So when I compare LPG to petrol I would have to be getting 7-8 litres/100k in a petrol car to compare to my V8 on LPG...so thats a saving of about 7.5 litres per 100k which is of course more like $12 per 100k not $1.00 as you have stated. Now calculate that over a years driving and the savings are huge...if they were not huge for V8s there wouldnt be so many converted.

Cheers

or another way of looking at the comparo..

21 l/100 k on LPG at .60c/litre = $12.60.100k;

15.5l/100k on Petrol at $1.60 litre (prem) = $24.80/100k.

The same comparo applies to highway journeys - 14l/100k petrol and 19.51/100k LPG.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by ozscott

Hi Eraser - thanks for re-posting as you have done.

My D2 gets what your getting on the highway or a smidge better - manual. BUT the LPG only uses 5l/100k more per 100k. So when I compare LPG to petrol I would have to be getting 7-8 litres/100k in a petrol car to compare to my V8 on LPG...so thats a saving of about 7.5 litres per 100k which is of course more like $12 per 100k not $1.00 as you have stated. Now calculate that over a years driving and the savings are huge...if they were not huge for V8s there wouldnt be so many converted.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by ozscott

or another way of looking at the comparo..

21 l/100 k on LPG at .60c/litre = $12.60.100k;

15.5l/100k on Petrol at $1.60 litre (prem) = $24.80/100k.

The same comparo applies to highway journeys - 14l/100k petrol and 19.51/100k LPG.

Cheers

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Your calcs make sense. I just used Jeep Boys figures as they were there. I guess it isnt fair to compare my hwy petrol useage to lpg city cycle. End of the day everyones gets what suits them. Im happy to run my disco on petrol. Ive even figured a way of getting an extra couple of hundred k's out of a tank on the hwy with our disco. Was pretty easy actually, just fitted a long range tank lol............................

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Originally Posted by ERASER

Ive even figured a way of getting an extra couple of hundred k's out of a tank on the hwy with our disco. Was pretty easy actually, just fitted a long range tank lol............................

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lol now theres an idea, so back to the gas question who knows what sort of wait there is to get it done, is the nsw gov rebate still on, say it was quicker to get it done in qld could you have it put on there and still calim the nsw rebate

noticed I'm getting about the same as some of the "average" rates on here. Out of interest, has anyone had a chip done to improve consumption? I was offered this by Bruce Davis here in Sydney.

I know this is a bit of a thread resurrection.. but..

I've only had the 98 D1 V8i since last week, but have found it great on gas, I'm getting 26L/100km, and to anyone that is concerned about performance... well.. I have been surprised by it so far, never having driven a gas vehicle before, I wasn't sure what to expect, I was expecting the gas to be sluggish or in some way deficient as compared to Petrol, well unless the D1 has the greatest standard V8 ever produced I am impressed, the performance is what I expect from a V8, plenty of grunt, it gets up and boogies, and is very driveable.

I'm so impressed I haven't even tried it on Petrol yet.

Wait till you throw a set of extractors and an exhaust on it!

:lol: just what i need more excuses to buy stuff for it :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Hucksta

I have been keeping a track on my fuel usage over the last few months.

I did a trip recently that was mostly open road driving, I filled her up to the brim and got about 570 K's out of the tank (89 Litre) from memory it worked out to be about 15.6l/100 kilometres. I think that is not to bad from a D1 V8.

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l may have to chk the book but isnt the D1 a 82l tank??..hey i may be wrong

cheers

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Originally Posted by cucinadio

l may have to chk the book but isnt the D1 a 82l tank??..hey i may be wrong

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Post update, after 1994, D1 was 89L.

Pre update, before 1994, was I think 82L.