[DMCForum] Re: DeLorean MPG

["cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,

With all due respect, I find you extremely un-qualified to make the 
statement below because you have never owned or extensively driven a 
stock DeLorean. Your car (through no fault of your own) was never 
stock, and is significantly modified and you have no frame of 
reference to make that statement.

My engine is also not set lean. It does not pop and fart the way 
stock D's do when they are set too lean. My engine runs nowhere near 
3000 RPM at 65 either. In fact, the RPM/MPH conversion table 
available at DMCnews.com lists 65 mph as 2500 RPM's. At 65 mph my 
tach reads between 2350 and 2400 RPM (depending on the ambient air 
temperature) which is close enough for casual estimation.

Lastly, if you re-read my original post you'll see that my driving 
was 60-65 MPH, not 65-70 which will only conserve more fuel. If you 
impunge my integrity again with your bullshit meter I'll be forced to 
ziptie you to the passenger seat with a gag in your mouth for a road 
trip with a full tank of fuel and a trip odometer set at 000.

Rich A.
#5335

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Whenever DeLorean owners start making MPG claims I always get out my
> Bullshit meter (there's only one other measurement they lie about 
more...)
> 
> Official EPA rating was 19 MPG (upper teens in town/low 20's on the
> highway). Car & Driver real world test dropped that to 18 MPG. If I
> hold my engine speed around 2,000 RPM, I do indeed come close to 
those
> numbers.
> 
> But it's physically impossible to drive 65-70 MPH in a PRV/UN-1
> equipped DeLorean without spinning the engine closer to 3,000 RPM.
> That increases fuel consumption 25-30%! And the 5,000 RPM I pull 
from
> a stop light absolutely massacres fuel economy. 
> 
> But I didn't buy a DeLorean to be an econobox, or to drive "gently".
> It's a sportscar, not a Yugo. If I can't afford the gas, perhaps I
> should reconsider ownership.
> 
> If you're intentionally running your engine lean for MPG, be 
careful.
> Lean mixtures are as bad for the combustion chambers as rich ones 
are.
> You run a real risk of damaging the pistons or heads. Speaking as a
> person who just burned a hole in the piston for his lawn mower, it 
is
> indeed possible. I'd much rather buy an extra gallon or two of gas
> than rebuild or replace an engine.
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
> 
> >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote:
> > My co-workers are amazed that I'm getting around 26-29 mpg in-
town 
> > combined with some highway. I get 280-300 miles on a tank of 
regular 
> > gas. I keep my speed between 60-65 with the occasional 110 mph 
temper-
> > tantrum spurt.
> > 
> > It's all in the engine maintenance and driving habits.
> > 
> > Rich A.
> > #5335
> >

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