Thread: Pretty impressive

My bil has an e39 with that motor. It is a sweet motor sounds great and goes hard. It's always funny driving the car these motors were intended to be in - I remember my first drive of a jag with the 4.2 version of my motor ... Drool ...

Would not want to tow a 3t van any distance with mine (because it would probably only get about 200kms from the tank haha).

Originally Posted by Epic pooh

You've made me feel better about getting ~650 a tank in placid highway cruising ... mine is a V8 ... and no, I'm not going to discuss my around town range ...

Have a mate with a V8 Disco 3 and he is lucky around Sydney to get around 300 to 350 K's per tank.. would that be about right

I love the sound of the SDV6 it's one of my favourite diesels sounds weather it's sitting idling or under a big bootful love it!! Sounds grunty and smooth not coarse!!

Hey Nat,
Yeah, they do sound great.
But, a V8, even in a diesel is just something else.
Bob.

Originally Posted by Epic pooh

And Joel - 650km = about 70-75l used. Or put another way, I can often drive past service stations without stopping.

So somewhere between 11.5L/100km and 10.7L/100km.

That's nothing to worry about. It's as good as an old TD5 Disco 2. Given you said 650/Tank and a tank is 82L, I though you were getting 12.6L/100Km.

So when you say 650km per tank you mean somewhere between 10.7 and 12.6L per 100km.

FYI My Disco does roughly this:



I say roughly because I cant guarantee the speedo is accurate.

Happy Days

Happy Days.

Originally Posted by bertness

Hey Nat,
Yeah, they do sound great.
But, a V8, even in a diesel is just something else.
Bob.

I do love a good v8 and living in a mining town I hear my fair share of clubsports and fpvs haha I think I've heard ever different exhaust combination on the v8 cruiser utes and all I can say is none sound good!!! I do love the SDV6 sound nice, but I would love I hear the SDV8 haven't heard that yet seen a few videos on YouTube but never in person I'm sure it sounds awesome to!! I just love the SDV6 how it just pulls from so low like 1100rpms and it just pulls along not dropping back just cruising!! But I'm so biased!!

The fuel economy of the V8 is highly variable depending on driving conditions, driving style and foot restraint - over the years, I’ve had a lot of V8 powered vehicles and I’ve had the D3 long enough to know how to baby it or drive it and I know what it’s going to cost me if I ‘drive it’. I have three cars (the other 2 don’t add up to the Disco in weight or engine capacity …) so the Disco does not do short town duties unless its capabilities are required - that said, I could probably replicate that 25+ fuel economy around town if I drove it hard like in my video and stopped every 2 minutes. I’ll admit that getting ~650 was a perfect storm (1 up, overnight bag, cruising 90-100, little traffic and soothing tunes from the Logic7) and my version of relaxed hypermiling ...

Last year and early this year I had “the year of suspension” (shocks, AMK compressor, control arms (front upper and lower), new rack, lower steering column, front wheel bearings). This year has been “the year of engine efficiency and tune” (plugs for the first time, throttle body and sensor clean, coolant change, new thermostat, temp sensor and housing, bleeder hose set, centre section of exhaust, reset engine ecu) and I’ve also dumped AT tyres and returned to Wranglers for normal use. On a recent, very familiar, medium distance trip I returned an indicated improvement just shy of 2L/100km over what I would expect on that trip - real or not, I don’t know - if it is, I don’t expect it will last long enough to pay for itself anyway.

I've never written that all down in one place before ... it's kind of shocking/confronting/mildly depressing all the work/maintenance/repairs done on the Disco in recent memory … and I know there is more in store (noisy A/C compressor, rear suspension needs a good look) … oh well … such is the LR experience, for some

In a couple of weeks I’m off to the snow (well known trip, 4 up, medium load) so that will be an opportunity to benchmark against a well known trip … although in Disco style it has developed a ‘very concerning’ driveline noise and is off to get that seen to tomorrow (as I have no time before the trip to investigate myself) … so possibly I’ll get awesome fuel economy going to the snow (as in, my Subaru will get the nod if the Disco issue defies easy/quick resolution) ... happy days.

Originally Posted by Epic pooh

My bil has an e39 with that motor. It is a sweet motor sounds great and goes hard. It's always funny driving the car these motors were intended to be in - I remember my first drive of a jag with the 4.2 version of my motor ... Drool ...

Would not want to tow a 3t van any distance with mine (because it would probably only get about 200kms from the tank haha).

My ex father-in-law bought a new jag xjr at one stage when they updated them. It had a digital instant fuel consumption readout on the dash with two numbers.... It was always fun when giving it a boot full watching that display rapidly count up to 99 - yes that's more than 99L/100km... But oh boy that supercharged V8 sounded sweet even idling