RE: [DMCForum] 30 MPG DeLorean? (Revisited)

[jordan rubin <nuttenschleuder@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have to agree,

without AC at around 140 kph, i get 10.2 liters/100km.
A test was conducted on 10 tanks of gas highway
driving to get this number as the average of all.

this equals 27.69420944431372 MPG or 27.7 for short. I
used the same pump at the same station, temp varing
slightly. 

I should point out that the gas empty light flickers
around the same odo number, implying that the pump
basically gives the same ammount of gas before it cuts
off. 

AC of course yields worse results.


jordan 11613
 


--- Dave Stragand <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Bill,
> 
>  
> 
> I know you don't believe it, but I was at nearly 30
> miles per gallon
> when I drove down to Pigeon Forge,.. And that was on
> each tank of gas.
> 
>  
> 
> -Dave
> 
>  
> 
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> Subject: [DMCForum] 30 MPG DeLorean? (Revisited)
> 
>  
> 
> Drove up to DC last night. Prior to leaving town I
> disabled a device
> on my carb known as the "power valve" (it's just a
> diaphragm that
> meters more fuel when manifold vacuum drops, usually
> due to fuller
> throttle plate activation). Engine predetonated
> slightly under hard
> acceleration, so I bumped the jets up slightly. Even
> with the larger
> jets (4% larger than I had been running), fuel
> economy jumped to 24.5
> MPG. And that was 2750-3000 RPM. Had I run closer to
> 2000 RPM, I might
> well have approached 30 MPG.
> 
> In other words, something in the neighborhood of a
> 30 MPG DeLorean may
> indeed be possible. Performance will suffer
> accordingly, but if fuel
> economy is your primary goal it could be done. I
> like to accelerate
> and drive fast myself, so 24.5 is good enough for
> me.
> 
> (Note to Rich Acuti: That little silver blur in the
> left lane will be
> me).
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
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> 
> 


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