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Old 05-22-2015, 11:34 AM   #1 (permalink)
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A-B-A Testing Gas Measurement Methods

I am going to start doing some A-B-A testing and was curious of everyone's methods for measuring their fuel use. I don't trust gas pumps, even using the same one has given me different results. So I was planning to use a digital scale to measure how much fuel I placed back into my tank after the testing. Fill the tank to the point I can see the fuel in my long-neck funnel, run base test and weigh the fuel before I refill and then after to get the amount used. I want to be able to trust the refill every time, and with my '12 civic lx I won't have the time to run through an entire tank of gas for every test run. I have laid out a nice 50 mile piece of road that will give me some normal conditions for highway travel and the 100 mile round trip won't take more than 2 hours to complete.

Short of a laboratory conditions will this method work well enough for getting averages?


How do you measure your fuel use?

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Old 05-22-2015, 03:51 PM   #2 (permalink)
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How do you measure your fuel use?
Scangauge. I seldom am looking for absolute measurements. A percentage increase or decrease is fine. If you don't change the settings on the scangauge, it measures the usage (mostly) the same way.
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Old 05-22-2015, 03:58 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Agree SG2 or similar is better, but SG2 doesn't work with fuel changes as in E0 vs E10 etc...

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