2008-11-13 492.1 8.45 58.24 ""
2008-11-15 570.4 9.25 61.66 "100% trip, best tank so far!"
2008-11-22 510.7 9.25 55.21 ""
2008-11-30 552 10.04 54.98 "winter diesel"
2008-12-12 432 7.4 58.38 ""
2008-12-15 372 6.34 58.68 "Normal tank 90% highway 10% city with coldstarts avg speed 74 km/h"
2008-12-21 616 10.3 59.81 "100% trip consumption, avg speed 79kph"
2008-12-29 375 6.87 54.59 "I was in a hurry "
2009-01-16 423 7.4 57.16 ""
2009-01-23 354 6.34 55.84 ""
2009-01-29 332 5.811 57.13 ""
2009-02-13 708 12.68 55.84 "Full P&G tank. avg speed 80 km/h"
2009-02-27 726 12.81 56.67 "half of the tank with flat wheelcovers and front tire deflectors."
2009-03-12 782.9 13.47 58.12 "rear muffler swap to straight pipe"
2009-03-20 780 13.47 57.91 "P&G only in speeds under 50 mph"
2009-04-06 448.6 7.57 59.26 "Weather starts to warm up."
2009-04-08 329.9 5.6 58.91 "Kammback spoiler in place. Little overfill for long trip"
2009-04-14 718.9 11.39 63.12 "95% trip. Avg speed 54 mph (87 km/h)

Not bad because, the summer speed limits are now in place so I can drive +20km/h compared to winter limits.

Mods when in half tank gone: Cat remove, oil Valvoline 5W-30 syn power XL-III, trans oils Mobil 1 VS200. I also cleaned the intercooler which was glogged."
2009-04-26 738.2 12.65 58.36 "Regular route with summer speed limits. New Toyo 350 175/80/R14 tires installed. Pressure 50PSI. Acceleration in slower speeds is little slower due to more heavier tires, but the glide I think is as long as with winter tires. gain in higher speeds is nice. Now 60MPH is around 1950 rpms.

Now I get same results as in winter but at higher speeds..."
2009-05-07 704 10.59 66.48 "SG II AVG speed 85 km/h. The last 3 fillups are done in different gas stations so my car havent been in the same position during fillups. Today the car was leaning to the wrong side of the car so it didint take so much as normally would have taken...

SG MPG showed the same consumpion as in my second best tank, but that was with different wheels...

Overall I think my new tires are as good as my winter 175/70/R14 Goodyear ultragrip 7+ tires in slower speeds and way better in motorway speeds. If I would have more patience in the motorways numbers would be something like 70MPG"
2009-05-20 697.2 11.03 63.21 "drived very slowly in motorways tanks avg speed 75 km/h

In half tank changed smaller 165/70/R13 tires to rear which are 5.2 kg lighter per piece."
2009-05-29 502 8.62 58.24 "tank is now as full as it can get."
2009-06-08 816.5 13.2 61.86 "Drived faster than usually, because I removed some of the front bumber blocks. Now temperatures wont rise at any speeds .

Installed 14"" aluminium wheels to the front with new pizzapans attached by zipties.

Longest tank distance so far!"
2009-06-22 753.1 11.42 65.95 "Drived same speeds as previous best tank. Roof rack ""studs"" removed."
2009-06-25 294.5 5.82 50.6 "drived like a nut +25 mph over posted speed limit, tank avg speed 59 mph. Filled to the brim."
2009-06-29 843.8 11.81 71.45 "100% trip. avg speed 84 km/h. Could ave hit 3l/100km mark but rushed 80 km at speed of 77 mph. That rose my tank consumtion from 3.0 to 3.2! So keep steady max speed limit if you want good looking mpg figures .

- Installed lowering spring in the midlle of the tank.

Results:

best coastdown end speed (+1km/h) so far and best ""75km test leg"" consumption from 2.7 l/100 km to 2.6l"
2009-07-17 798.4 12.34 64.7 "Filled to the neck. Tank avg speed 74 kph. On next tank I will try push my self over 1000 miles in one tank barrier!."
2009-07-31 994.2 13.99 71.07 "Extra weigth +100-150 kg during whole tank. Miscalculated the 1000 miles in kilometers tranlslation in my head. Could have still driven easily 60 kilometers :/"
2009-08-11 1055 14.78 71.38 "Longest distance so far! No extra weigth+ glasfibre hood in place in the half way of the tank. + ca 10 kg of interior weight loss + minor aero mods.

Both rear wheel bearings are broken: effect ca - 1mpg. For the last 600 km couldnt drive faster than 60 MPH because the whining noise was so hard Both will be replaced tomorrow and maybe also engine oils if Iam fast enough..."
2009-08-19 720.8 10.18 70.81 "New rear wheel bearings in place. +200 kg of extra weigth for most of the tank. SG2 showed best figures so far, but fillup was little disapointing. However next tank will be record breaking in every way "
2009-08-29 1097 15.17 72.31 "Drived the tank to dry. Now I know the fuel will end 220 km after the low fuel ligth has come on .


Best so far, but had little things to improve. I lost 40 km of my range during MOT (yearly registration) inspection. Had to rev my engine because engine failed smoke reading test.. Also 30 % of the tank had 200 kg of extra weigth.

I had a holiday so werent never in a hurry. Full undertray installed, for the last 200 km of the tank."
2009-09-17 947 12.94 73.18 "-New cold air intake in place
-some minor weight savings.
-Installed rear led driving lights and register lights."
2009-09-23 666 9.06 73.51 ""
2009-10-06 861 14.05 61.28 "Lots of rain. Drived +120 km/h on motorways, Stopped to P&G on motorways.

It also starts to get cold in the nigths.

I drove 30 miles @ 53 MPH for average consumption of 103 MPG."
2009-10-10 496.4 8.58 57.86 "Drived +120 km/h at motorways, Stopped P&G on motorways...

Rainy."
2009-10-22 526.3 9.97 52.79 "Winter 175/70R14 tires on. Flat hubcabs not in place."
2009-11-06 705.2 12.41 56.83 "Winter is here "
2009-11-13 643.1 12.04 53.41 "New front bumber in place. Not fully ready yet."
2009-11-15 661.1 10.5 62.96 "Front bumber more ready. Full trip tank. AVG speed 79 km/h. Lighter 14""aluminium wheels in place."
2009-11-30 829.5 13.96 59.42 "comparable tank to winter tyre tanks - (the last trip tank). So front bumber gain is 2-3 MPG.

AVG speed 75 km/h"
2009-12-14 761.8 13.7 55.61 "Flat hubcabs in place."
2009-12-27 991.7 19.47 50.93 "-Heavy snow during driving.
- lots of cold starts
- Drived 120 km/h on motorways

Filled two times smaller amount of fuel to find a cheaper station."
2010-01-05 646.8 11.39 56.79 "50 % of p&g driving.
80% highway driving"
2010-01-07 392 6.39 61.35 "Full P&G and trip consumption.
Weather -18 celsius so very cold
tank AVG speed 81 km/h
Filled to the brim."
2010-01-13 692.2 12.68 54.59 "83 kph"
2010-01-23 641.9 12.7 50.54 "avg speed 70 kph"
2010-02-02 675.4 13.4 50.4 ""
2010-02-08 743.7 14.06 52.89 "AVG speed 77 kph."
2010-02-14 775.5 13.19 58.79 "avg speed 73 kmh. Full trip consumption. rear wheel hubcaps in place."
2010-02-19 682.9 11.24 60.76 "Tank didint go full."
2010-03-02 579.1 12.6 45.96 "avg speed 71km/h. Really cold -20 celsius"
2010-03-11 620.7 11.75 52.83 "AVG speed 73 km/h. roads start to get dry from ice"
2010-03-22 731.4 13.76 53.15 "Avg speed 75 kph, so I droved faster than usually on motorways. I can start to see the effects of the spring ."
2010-03-23 680 13.5 50.37 "avg speed 66 km/h"
2010-03-25 385.2 7.07 54.48 "95% trip consumpion.
AVG speed 81 kph.

Conclusions my short work trips with cold starts effects more negatively to my FE than driving faster :/"
2010-03-27 156.6 2.979 52.57 "100% trip consumption. Avg speed 82 kph."
2010-04-02 664.9 11.88 55.97 "100% trip consumption. Note high avg speed of 89 km/h. Still snow and ice on the roads, but conditions are getting better and better."
2010-04-06 617 10.31 59.84 "avg speed 84 km/h. 90% trip consumption. Roads are melted off from ice. Car starts to roll much better and FE is going to right direction. Summer is coming fast."
2010-04-23 741.9 13.7 54.15 "avg speed 71 kph. Michelin energy saver summer tires on size 175/65/R14."
2010-04-25 148.5 2.081 71.36 "Finnish Ecorun challenge results. Beated a guy who is finnish fuel economy race winner from many years in a row by 1.5 desiliter/100km.

AVG speed was very low ca. 50km/h. Roads were 40% wet gravel roads, 40% twisted tarmac and 15% good tarmac and 5% City.

Can be happy for the results, but the filling error is very big because the fuel usage was so little..."
2010-05-05 886.1 13.5 65.64 "avg speed 78km/h. Tried to get max results with full set of michelin energy saver tires. Jammed rear drum brake affected the results."
2010-05-12 669.8 11.86 56.48 "avg speed 82 km/h. Fixed the rear brakes and installed 175/80R14 front tires back in half of the tank."
2010-05-18 932.7 13.59 68.63 "avg speed 81 km/h. New intercooler installed in the halfway. Also new hood air exit made on the same time. Didint even tried to drive extra effiently on the motorways. Next tank try beat previous best so far ."
2010-05-24 338 4.43 76.3 "avg speed 68 km/h. Tried to get max results. second half of the tank was raining like hell. My results dropped from 90 mpg to 76 mpg :/"
2010-06-11 880.5 13.46 65.42 "Drived +15 km/h over the speed signs so quite fast. Rear drum brakes adjusted. Also wheel bearing changed at the same time."
2010-06-23 592.8 10.07 58.87 ""
2010-07-14 1155 14.3 80.77 "Tried to reach 2000 km. Too much city driving with small trips ruined my chances. Recalibrated SG because according to it I should make over 2000 km.

Drived almost whole tank under 100 km/h.

At the end of tank was able to reach figures under 2.0 litres/100 mpg @50 MPH (117 MPG)

AVG speed 68 km/h--> OK conserning city driving."
2010-07-25 890.4 12.78 69.67 "100% trip driving with no P&G

AVG speed 74 km/h"
2010-08-05 661.1 10.3 64.18 "AVG speed 77"
2010-08-19 769 11.5 66.87 "First tried to get to 100 mpg with 175/80R14 winter Kleber tires which had 1% bigger gearings. quicly realised that tires were about 10 MPG worse than my current summer tires. So rest of the tank drived pretty fast.

AVG speed 75 km/h"
2010-08-23 352.3 3.91 90.1 "Tried again to reach 100 MPG. In the beginnig of the tank disabled my power steering. and changed my summer tires back.

Last 1/3 of the tank was raining so it did affect little

AVG speed 78 km/h"
2010-09-08 842 13.4 62.84 "drived like a nut on the motorways.

AVG speed 73 km/h, due to one traffic accident."
2010-09-22 732.6 11.7 62.62 "AVG speed 77 km/h
Lots of rain..."
2010-10-07 783.5 12.6 62.18 "AVG speed 78 km/h. Drived 120 km/h on the motorways."
2010-10-15 763.7 12.97 58.88 "Cars current top speed 191 km/h (factory claim 175 km/h)

Drived 500 km at the average speed of 111 km/h so drived like a lunatic.

Tanks avg speed 79 km/h

First rains of snow came at the end of tank and changed winter tires on."
2010-11-01 791 14.18 55.78 "avg speed 76 km/h. Lots of rain."
2011-01-24 632 12.97 48.73 "Had some electrical failures so was not able to drive for 1.5 month. Inspected the car so back to original parts on the exterior. tank avg speed 55 km/h. As you can see from that speed I dont drive my usual route anymore. Now I have much more citydriving which drops the avg speeds down.

Also tires are now 15"" aluminium without smooth hubcaps.
There is full grill block
intercooler is off to make it warm up to normal engine temps.

Have to start putting those mods back on ."
2011-02-08 902.8 18.08 49.93 "avg speed 66 kph"
2011-02-13 654.3 13.26 49.34 "avg speed 69 km/h"
2011-02-26 566 12.5 $7.25 45.28 "avg speed 54 km/h"
2011-03-09 741 13.5 54.89 "avg speed 71 km/h"
2011-04-02 597 11.4 52.37 "avg speed 64 km/h"
2011-04-12 624 10 62.4 "avg speed 71 km/h
Tank did not come full!"
2011-04-21 630 13.8 $7.57 45.65 "avg speed 74 km/h
Summer tires on in the middle of the tank.
Front Toyo 350 175/80R14
Rear michelin energy saver 175/70R14"
2011-05-01 715.8 12.8 55.92 "First whole tank with summer tires on. avg speed 69 km/h. 60 % tank highway driving."
2011-05-16 800.3 13.8 57.99 "avg speed 61 km/h. At the end of the tank changed new 175/80R14 summer tires to replace the similar ones which had 1mm tread depth left."
2011-06-03 724.5 13 55.73 "avg speed 70 km/h
two new front tires and two smooth hubcaps installed"
2011-06-14 782.3 12.86 60.83 "avg speed 65 km/h"
2011-07-13 766.1 12.82 59.76 "avg speed 63 km/h"