Thread: Best (economic) engine for a LWB series hardtop?

This was a VY. The company had two of them, fuel economy was no different between them.
I see wikipedia (which is as accurate as any other blog) claims 12 litres/100km, the 3.8 V6 saving 1 litre/100km over the 5.7 V8 manual. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_VY_Commodore"]Holden VY Commodore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Holden_VY_Berlina_01.jpg" class="image" title="Holden VY Berlina"><img alt="Holden VY Berlina" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Holden_VY_Berlina_01.jpg/250px-Holden_VY_Berlina_01.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/1/17/Holden_VY_Berlina_01.jpg/250px-Holden_VY_Berlina_01.jpg[/ame]

Forum claims run from 15 litres/100km to under 7 litres/100km for the same car with V8 and V6 drivers not much different. Apparently a pod filter can save you 5 litres/100km. Fuel Consumption.

I've got a VZ wagon for work car and I'ts hard to get over 400km out of 60L of fuel around town. Leaving the power button on I get around 370km out of it. A total different story if doing a long trip on highway. Quite easy to get well over 600km. I guess I do have a slight heavy foot lol, but even if I'm careful it's not much better.

Weight, gearing and how heavy your foot is all contribute to the final figure.
In my old 94VR 5.0 v8 statesman(auto) we where getting 11.5-12.5l/100k's with around town and highway(as low as9.5-10 on long trips) driving but in the 98 3.4v6 prado(5spd man) on lpg it was between 16.5 and 18l /100k's but at less than 1/2 the price off petrol it was the same cost as my sisters corrolla /100k's for fuel. My wifes old 04prado 4.0v6 man was on LPG injection so no backfiring EVER and got 14-15l/100k's and virtually no power difference between gas and petrol but gas was a bit noisier from the engine bay.

I spoke to my dad tonight and he mated the 18r to a hilux gearbox and transefer case back in 1984. He did the work himself and thought it would be a good conversion and to him it was. But yeah, the later 2.4 would be great.

My daily driver is a 92 Hi Ace with a 2RZ 2.4 petrol and 5spd. manual. Had it for 17 years and the motot was replaced at 454000, after a cook up at 235 due to cracked radiator.(wallaby)
Always thought that motor would be good for 4wd as it is very smooth low down in the revs and pulls like a (small) tractor.
Van usually has around 500-700kgs on board and does around 12l-100k