Introducing George

[Arragonis]

Double PS - also discovered a thread by Toyota UK themselves about "Hypermiling" an IQ (same engine as George, smaller car) - Part 1 and Part 2. Somewhat annoyingly they didn't reveal any real secrets but I suppose it was meant as an publicity experiment rather than anything serious - they were spending someone else's money after all

Might email the authors if I can but it was 3 years ago.

EDIT - IQ looks like this



I'm not a fan TBH, it looks like someone punched it's nose.

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

Double PS - also discovered a thread by Toyota UK themselves about "Hypermiling" an IQ (same engine as George, smaller car) - Part 1 and Part 2.

There's also a part 3
500 miles in the Toyota iQ | Toyota UK news, reviews, video and pictures | Today Tomorrow

This is the funny part :
Our attempt has attracted criticism in the cleanmpg forums, much of it around our use of ‘hypermiling‘: the term was coined by cleanmpg.com owner Wayne Gerdes. Strictly speaking, having beaten iQ’s combined fuel economy figures we qualify as hypermilers, but Wayne and some of the forum’s members feel that by using the term to describe only a modest improvement over the car’s official figures, we’ve attracted criticism to the concept of hypermiling itself - that certainly isn’t what we intended.

Beating the unrealistic NEDC numbers by over 9% with a lot of city driving, you ARE hypermiling.

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by euromodder

There's also a part 3
500 miles in the Toyota iQ | Toyota UK news, reviews, video and pictures | Today Tomorrow

This is the funny part :
Our attempt has attracted criticism in the cleanmpg forums, much of it around our use of ‘hypermiling‘: the term was coined by cleanmpg.com owner Wayne Gerdes. Strictly speaking, having beaten iQ’s combined fuel economy figures we qualify as hypermilers, but Wayne and some of the forum’s members feel that by using the term to describe only a modest improvement over the car’s official figures, we’ve attracted criticism to the concept of hypermiling itself - that certainly isn’t what we intended.

Beating the unrealistic NEDC numbers by over 9% with a lot of city driving, you ARE hypermiling.

I suppose they have different standards

[Piwoslaw]

Sorry for bring up the Corsa's 1.0 3-pot again, but I got to drive it today with my ScanGauge. I noticed that the SGII does not show LOD Do you have LOD?
I did a few nice engine off coasts with a tailwind, but trying to pulse and glide at 90-100km/h going back into the wind was terrible - I could barely catch up to a truck to feel the end of its wake I had to go up to 3k rpm and even that hardly helped. Those rpms only sent shivers down my sub-2k-rpm-turbodiesel spine

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by Piwoslaw

Sorry for bring up the Corsa's 1.0 3-pot again, but I got to drive it today with my ScanGauge. I noticed that the SGII does not show LOD Do you have LOD?

I do have a LOD measure which shows, er, something. Daox speculated here about how it came about the figure it shows.

Originally Posted by Piwoslaw

I did a few nice engine off coasts with a tailwind, but trying to pulse and glide at 90-100km/h going back into the wind was terrible - I could barely catch up to a truck to feel the end of its wake I had to go up to 3k rpm and even that hardly helped. Those rpms only sent shivers down my sub-2k-rpm-turbodiesel spine

It took some getting used to it but in reasonably calm weather I have experimented with P&G which involved 3rd gear to go from 50-70 - roughly 4-5K or around the peak of the torque curve for the little VVT. I am impressed with how quiet the engine is at anything under 3K.

And yep, winds are killing any attempts at FE here with this hurricane thing. Problem is that the wind comes across from the side on one section, and then when the bypass drops between some hills the wind then comes from the front. The P of P&G was taking 2-3 times as long as the G bit so I didn't bother.

Never seemed to have the wind pushing me of course, except my own.

[Arragonis]

Started a grill block - upper only at this stage

Before we start, upper grill is open on both sides.


Measurements using a corn-flakes packet, the only large enough card piece we have (as opposed to cardboard).


Cutting out of coroplast (aka Correx here in the UK). Note that I have the tubes (grain ?) going top to bottom instead of left to right. This is because the curve is mainly side to side so its easier to bend this way.

Left is a mirror of the right.

First try with the pieces in place. Need to fix them more securely and see what happens. Will get some bolts and large washers tomorrow.

[320touring]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

Started a grill block - upper only at this stage

Before we start, upper grill is open on both sides.


Measurements using a corn-flakes packet, the only large enough card piece we have (as opposed to cardboard).


Cutting out of coroplast (aka Correx here in the UK). Note that I have the tubes (grain ?) going top to bottom instead of left to right. This is because the curve is mainly side to side so its easier to bend this way.

Left is a mirror of the right.

First try with the pieces in place. Need to fix them more securely and see what happens. Will get some bolts and large washers tomorrow.

Looking good! and you're shaming me into considering the same for the iS..

Where did you get the Correx?

I really should do it, but at the moment, the car is only operational member of the 5 I have on fleet

[Arragonis]

Try these - I managed to get some cheaper but these would do for small mods.

Plan has changed, will be going for some black wire ties at lunchtime instead. I have enough to block the lower opening too.

Its starting to get winter stylee cold now

[Arragonis]

This came up on a Bug related forum. The engine in George is designed by Daihatsu, and in their cars has this part :



compared to an Aygo unit which doesn't (front left, where the washer bottle goes)



What does it do ?

[CigaR007]

Could it be to dampen the noise ?

On a side note, I know that most engine covers are meant for NVR (Noise and Vibration Reduction).