2011-07-28	484	8.17		59.24	"Stock car with 2.1 bar at the tires. Tested fuel consumtion figures: 2.8 l/100 km @ 100 km/h for 100 km distance (gliding on downhills) 3.5-3.6 l/100km @ 120 km/h for 100 km distance (gliding on downhills) Rest of the tank avg speed 140 km/h for 450 km distance. about 10 % city driving. Tested top speed 165-170 km/h on autobahn."
2011-07-29	297.6	3.98		74.77	"Speeds driven: 100 km/h = 200 km 86 km/h= 100 km 120 km/h 120km rallying on country roads = 60 km, was actually quite fun with up and down shifter. Could not help myselft to drive slow on gravel roads."
2011-08-11	794.7	10.36		76.71	"80% of tanks avg speed was 100 km/h. Cars own fuel consumtion meter showed 3.0 l/100km and the calculated result was 3.066 l/100 km. So the cars own fuel consumtion meters are pretty accurate only fault at the moment is that speedo is about 7% off"
2011-08-13	428.7	6.85		62.58	"avg speed over 120 km/h"
2011-08-13	135.1	1.61		83.91	"Fuel economy race with stock car and 2.8 bars at the tires. Lowest consumtion of the race 2.814 l/100km. Next best was Scoda Fabia 1.9 SDI 3.067 l/100km Results: http://www.al-jyvaskyla.fi/dynamic/1/view_attachment/Jarin%201000%20Lakes%20EcoRun%20Tulokset%202011.pd f?id=569"
2011-08-17	347.3	4.108		84.54	"Tried to drive 100 km/h but I believe avg speed was about 95 km/h for 90% the time. Installed DRL led lights and full grill block without any cooling holes to engine."
2011-08-25	144.3	2.75		52.47	"Half of the tank were in a little hurry. Did also some acceleration and braking tests."
2011-08-25	254.1	2.75		92.4	"Tried to reach 2 liter mark but not even close call. AVG speed was under 80 km/h but still this much fuel was burned. Second half of the tank was already dark so had to run lights which increased the fuel consumtion average from 2.5...2.7 according to fuel gauge. Installed 135/80R15 tires smooth hubcaps in all tires. Smaller mirrors"
2011-08-30	642.9	9.03		71.2	"about 50% drived at 120 km/h. Installed in the end of the tank: - Smooth undertray panels to whole cars underside - High flow exhaust pipe with exit behind front tire."
2011-09-11	739.4	10.08		73.35	"Tinted windows"
2011-09-26	155	1.569		98.79	"Tried again to reach 2 liter mark @ 85 km/h speed. This time was little bit better. This tank speed were little bit faster than the last attempt. - Tires are now 145/80R14 Bridgestone B381 Ecopias - rear wheel skirts are in place - Egr is tuned - Cold air intake is made CAI - Intercooler is removed - Redline MTL in the transmission"
2011-09-28	162.5	1.836		88.51	"+150 kg on board (effect to FE 3% worse) 175/70R14 Nokian hakkapeliitta R tires on front (8% taller). same avg speed 85 km/h, but different route. Wife was on board so could not use all the technigues (all the time) that I used on previous tank. Also had to use driving lights for 30% of the time. So overall first impression is that these are as good as the Bridgestones. Now need to make more tests."
2011-10-04	792.5	10.5		75.48	"- 0W-30 oils - xenon headlights - 175/70R14 Nokian hakkapeliitta R in front. - Loosened front brakes - New air filters for engine and cabin air avg speed for 70 % over 100 km/h +150 kg"
2011-10-08	445.4	5.56		80.11	"Tires back to 145/80R14 B381 ecopias. Most of the tank tried to drive fuelefficiently."
2011-10-08	163.7	1.97		83.1	"Fuel economy race härmä: http://www.autoliitto.fi/liitto_ja_osallistuminen/autoliiton_osastot/harman_osasto/tulokset/tulokset-2011/maakunnan-auto-ecorun-8-10-2011/ 35% of the route muddy gravel roads. Tarmac sections mostly flat. Second best was 1.9 SDI 3.299 (14% difference), but we make some mistakes during route. Difference in the last race with stock car was 8.2% and tehn we had a perfect run. So some progress has happened ."
2011-10-18	725.3	10.77		67.34	"Average travel speed over 115 km/h. Huge difference to previous high speed tanks so mods are working."
2011-10-26	244.4	3.72		65.7	"High speed testing. 600 mm long kammback spoiler installed at the end of the tank."
2011-11-04	725.6	10.54		68.84	"boattail and some high speed testing. Winter speed limits are on, so that means -20 km/h slower speeds"
2011-11-06	342.6	4.22		81.18	"roadtrip with +200kg cargo. Drived +5-10 km/h over the speed limits so much slower than previous tanks."
2011-11-10	87.1	0.925		94.16	"Tried to reach good figures at 85 km/h avg speed, last time propably this year. Filling error chance is quite big. fuel gauge showed 2.4 l/100km."
2011-11-10	384.3	5.8		66.26	"Roadtrip back +200 kg extra load. Speed +30 km/h over posted speedlimit"
2011-11-23	737.57	10.57	$1.88	69.78	"175/70R14 Nokian Hakkapeliitta R winter tires on. Removed rear wheel skirts. Temperatures going down"
2011-12-05	708.18	10.88	$1.397	65.09	""
2011-12-27	478.02	8	$1.324	59.75	"Very bad weather, lots of water and snow. Kammback spoiler taken out."
2012-01-26	740.67	14		52.91	"Winter is killing my lupos mileage. This tank had lots of cold start and city driving. When engine is warm still can reach 3.4 liter fuel consumtion figures."
2012-02-09	468.45	8.62		54.34	"very cold -25 celsius"
2012-02-13	610.44	10.57		57.75	"Still very cold, but most of this tank highway driving. Plus some rallying sessions. Changed engine oils make to Agip 0W-30 and installed new battery."
2012-02-26	610.31	10.72		56.93	"Only -10 celsius but lots of snow"
2012-03-02	593.41	10.48		56.62	""
2012-03-10	453.54	7.89		57.48	""
2012-03-20	567.25	9.25		61.32	"Warmer weather"
2012-03-25	727.94	10.18		71.51	"Summer diesel. Trip fuel consumption and drived mostly according to speed limits."
2012-04-15	669.22	10.28		65.1	"145/80R14 summer tires on no undertray in place under the car. Put the real wheel skirts in place. Still some cold starts which hurt the FE."
2012-04-20	423.71	5.91		71.69	"Mainly highway at 120 km/h"
2012-04-28	749.91	10.65		70.41	"Average driving temps around +10 celsius"
2012-05-13	744.4	10.94		68.04	"Changed oils 0W-30 and added tunsgten disulfide to engine and gearbox oils. In the end of the tank installed new smooth undertray and kammback back. Lots of city driving and some high speed testing."
2012-05-26	523.07	6.99		74.83	"Lowered the car about -60mm. Now ground clearance is 80-90mm on lowest point. Stripped out the interior which saved about 50kg total. Otherwise normal tank about 30% of citydriving."
2012-05-27	81.96	0.78		105.08	"Test run tank. AVG speed 80-85 km/h and no drafting."
2012-06-11	448.38	5.82		77.04	"Weight reduction 10 kg EGR delete Front hubcaps back in place"
2012-06-20	799.7	10.02		79.81	"Smooth wheelcovers in place to front."
2012-06-20	250.77	3.63		69.08	"Grill block is taken out during testing. Highway driving 90%. New 1st chip revision is in place in the middle of the tank. Now sofware is able to give 75 Hp and 150 Nm if I get intake temps under 30 celsius. Boost pressure is set to 1.3 bar. Some flat out accelerations and high speed driving. Tanks avg speed 100km/h+ I dont have the intercooler so the intake temps are over 50 celsius so the power is still pretty much the same. Water injection is coming to cure that problem."
2012-06-24	466.59	6.36		73.36	"Changed drivebelt and installed intercooler back, also installed Devilsown water injection system with size 1 nozzle in use at the moment."
2012-07-02	779.82	10.84		71.94	"New BV35 turbo installed. Lots of acceleration tests. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0xvKauPVhY&feature=youtu.be Lots of high speed driving at 140+ km/h. 3.27l/100km ! I just love my lupo ."
2012-07-09	774.79	8.85		87.55	"Was testing the top speed at standing mile: First run 171 and second 175.6 km/h. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUAxlQpahvE&list=UUvRmfkuNqLFi1W1LiTfIAFA& index=2&feature=plcp New grill block and hood exit vent in place"
2012-07-09	279.68	2.88		97.11	"AVG speed over 90 km/h. New sideskirts in place, Changed water and fuel temperature sensors and water thermostat."
2012-07-19	186.29	2.57		72.49	"50% in the city. Rear diffusor vertical (3pcs) plates installed"
2012-07-19	147.66	1.32		111.86	"Test tank: avg temperature +15 celcius avg road temperature +16 celsius 10% wet road (5% of that actual rain) AVG speed 80 km/h+ (50 MPH) Drived behind a truck the whole tank. ""Cold"" weather did had a clear impact to fuel consumption and in the end had to use also headlights which did not help."
2012-07-22	181.27	1.77		102.41	"Cleaned and loosened up rear wheel bearings Installed windshield wiper deflector Covered small pockets on front bumber between turning signals."
2012-07-22	186.24	2.04		91.29	"Test tank. Avg speed 100 km/h (62 MPH) Weather +20celsius road +38 celsius. 20% behind a RV at that time consumption was 2.2 liters."
2012-07-28	692.83	8.01		86.5	"avg speed about 100 km/h"
2012-08-04	823.01	10.74		76.63	"avg speed 100 km/h+ Now the car has 90 hp and 200 Nm and clutch is slipping between 2000-3000 rpm. Changed engine oils and again added WS2 mixture"
2012-08-17	777.83	10.24		75.96	"High speed tank again. Cleaned and loosened rear wheel bearings. Free rolling time when on jacks went from 8 seconds to 60 seconds average!"
2013-05-28	217.54	2.16		100.71	"First fuel economy check after roof chopping project. AVG speed 90 km/h. Temperature +22 celsius. No drafting and used mainly DWL technigue. Mods done during winter: Manual conversion Chopped 70mm off from roof and changed angle to match teardrop template added better kammback smaller batteries Aerodynamic mirrors mark II"
2013-07-08	308.93	2.83		109.16	"full test tank. cars own fuel consumption meter showed two liters, but fillup was a disappointment. AVG speed 92,7 km/h from ultragauge. 60 and 80 km/h speed limit zones dropped the avg speed down plus some drivers that I had to pass. Used technigues DWL, target driving and gliding downhills. There were again few idiot drivers and had to make four hard brakings. Also made two u turns. car was able to reach two liter fuel consumption at 100 km/h speed easily."
2013-07-22	574.4	6.43		89.33	"tank calculated ultragauge avg speed 86.6 km/h. 95& of the tank avg speed 94 km/h= drived 100km/h where possible. Tank included 3 dyno pulls and some acceleration tests with full throttle. Road was wet 50% of the time and it was cold +12-15 celsius. Installed big 560er injectors as stock were 360er. First injectors were tuned for max hp and result in dyno was 119.3 hp and 284.8 Nm."
2013-07-26	235.31	2.05		114.79	"Raised tyre pressures from 2.6 to 4.6 bar built intercooling ducting Closed little bit more of the front grill Ultragauge avg speed 90.0 km/h. This was little slower drive speeds than previous best as fuel consumption gauge avg showed 2.3 liter figures. Still no throttle control not tweaked and power software in which is tricky in accelerations. Weather +21 celsius and road +40 celsius. There is a chance of fillup error, but usually they are to other direction. Next tests will reveal more"
2013-07-29	226.78	2.01		112.83	"Rounded 40mmradius to front fender rear edges. Got new ecu softaware which make it more easier to control the throttle. Actually too easy as there was not enough gas as there were lacking eco throttle position which should give little boost. Weather +25 celsius and road +48 celsius Car was much better and I was able to drive faster speeds than previous tank even the tank avg speed was 90 km/h. Avg speed dropped a lot during this test due traffic incidents. Lots of farming tractors, wood trucks and other people turnign off and onto the road. I roughly had to brake about ten times. One 100-0 km/h braking loses me about 0.03 liters so I roughly wasted at least 0.1l up to 0.3 liters."
2013-08-05	208.78	1.97		105.98	"avg speed 93 km/h. Cars own fuel consumption gauge showed best figures so far so estimated fillup error due to small fill amount. After this tank I bought/made my own filling setup: 5 liter canister with butterfly valve Electronic fish scale with +-20 gram accuracy."
2013-08-05	57.06	0.53		107.66	"First test with new filling system. Typical weight of Neste Pro diesel is 0.827 kg/l: http://www.neste.fi/doc/150425_fi.pdf Empty canister=0.50kg With 5 liters of diesel filled from station=4.60kg After fillup=2.94 kg Weight of fuel=1.66kg --> 2.007 liters Gives 2.178 l/100km. from this test I think its much more accurate than tiny fillups at gas pumps. I have separate sealed storage box for the fuel canister so it wont smell so much inside the car."
2013-08-21	162.24	1.34		121.07	"Tank avg speed 86.9 km/h Temperature +22 celsius Not perfect run but first tank under two liters. Used same filling station as in previous best tank. Made overfill so fuel got even to ground so tank was full. EOC long downhills was biggest mod compared to previous best. I will go to make calibration test with 5 liter cup to see if its 5 liters is exatly 5 liters... Nestes fuel weight varies too much so I cannot know what mixture I am getting from the pump stations so weighting does not work for that reason."
2013-08-31	239.29	2.02		118.46	"Changed injection timing is only mod from last tank. Rought test results showed max 3% effect to fuel consumption at 120 km/h test made on level road. Temperature +18-19 celsius so quite cold avg speed 90 km/h It took 70km to get the fuel consumption gauge to drop to 2.2 l/100km (its off 0.2 liters at the moment) did some coasting testing with the audi a2 3l. and fuel gauge jumped to 2.4 liters. After that it took 180km to drop back to 2.2 liters. So results is very good. This is propably last test tank for long time in time with lupo 2l chassis and the engine will be moved to other car. Next summers targets for this car is to be very fast in standing mile drag races with different tdi engine."