Thread: Fuel Consumption

Had the ('98 V8) disco for a couple of months now, serviced & tracking sorted out - can still only get a consitant 25l/100km round eastern subs of Sydney.
Any thoughts

Billyb

has anyone experimented with different grades of fuel to see if the economy changes?

ie. with higher octane rating should give more power as computer can
advance timing without pinging.

therefore: you wont need to accelerate as hard and should use less fuel.
initial cost will be higher per tank, of course, but l/km sould drop balancing
out cost and increasing kms/tank.

i would like to try this but cant find high octane diesel anywhere.

if anyone has already done this comparison please post results as i am curious to see if this works.

Originally posted by billyb
Had the ('98 V8) disco for a couple of months now, serviced & tracking sorted out - can still only get a consitant 25l/100km round eastern subs of Sydney.
Any thoughts

Billyb

You could try lighter shoes.
How about the vacuum advance, as adam333 stated, it helped his consumption.

Originally posted by adm333

In regional ares, fuel is about 106.9 ..... Ouch [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

In Pooncarie 1.13 Camerons Corner 1.32 8O , You can deal with it as a tourist, Id hate to have to pay that as a local.

I'm gettin about 13.5 l per 100 ks. Doesn't seem to matter if shes fully loaded or not. I reckon it'd get better if I change the gearing on it. Rev's a little high on the highway. Maybe disco transfer case or highway diffs could be the go. Still not bad economy for a 6.5 v8 diesel.

Originally posted by D110V8D
I'm gettin about 13.5 l per 100 ks. Doesn't seem to matter if shes fully loaded or not. I reckon it'd get better if I change the gearing on it. Rev's a little high on the highway. Maybe disco transfer case or highway diffs could be the go. Still not bad economy for a 6.5 v8 diesel.

I had a 6.5 V8 Turbo in an 80 Series Cruiser with stock gearing and 37" MTR's. It was auto and got 11/100km on long trips.

My 1986 Rangie got 7.7L/100km on its last tank. (4BD1, LT85/230, 33" BFG)

Originally posted by Maggot4x4+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Maggot4x4)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-D110V8D
I'm gettin about 13.5 l per 100 ks. Doesn't seem to matter if shes fully loaded or not. I reckon it'd get better if I change the gearing on it. Rev's a little high on the highway. Maybe disco transfer case or highway diffs could be the go. Still not bad economy for a 6.5 v8 diesel.

I had a 6.5 V8 Turbo in an 80 Series Cruiser with stock gearing and 37" MTR's. It was auto and got 11/100km on long trips.

My 1986 Rangie got 7.7L/100km on its last tank. (4BD1, LT85/230, 33" BFG)[/b][/quote]

Have you adjusted the odo reading to compensate for the larger tyres in both cases?

Originally posted by rmp+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rmp)</div><div class='quotemain'>

Originally posted by Maggot4x4@
<!--QuoteBegin-D110V8D

I'm gettin about 13.5 l per 100 ks. Doesn't seem to matter if shes fully loaded or not. I reckon it'd get better if I change the gearing on it. Rev's a little high on the highway. Maybe disco transfer case or highway diffs could be the go. Still not bad economy for a 6.5 v8 diesel.

I had a 6.5 V8 Turbo in an 80 Series Cruiser with stock gearing and 37" MTR's. It was auto and got 11/100km on long trips.

My 1986 Rangie got 7.7L/100km on its last tank. (4BD1, LT85/230, 33" BFG)

Have you adjusted the odo reading to compensate for the larger tyres in both cases?[/b][/quote]

Yep, done with the GPS.