10-18-2011, 04:55 PM
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Cyborg ECU
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Filled-up yesterday, before a professional highway trip : 906.3mi @71.01mpg.
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Nice! Even if the 90 day number went down. I like the rear wheel skirts you made too. They diagonal leading edge looks good. Something to think about.
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10-18-2011, 06:01 PM
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Now approacheth the time to wonder how horrible the mileage will get with winter fuel, snowy conditions and studded snow tires!
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10-19-2011, 02:37 PM
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Agree on winter weather  .
Team VW is loosing people like crazy! I don't even know who left  . |
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10-20-2011, 01:02 PM
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And my team (with me as the only active member for a while - it would be fatal to lose more  ) loses FE as the wind, frost and rain hit. I'm scratching the 3l/100km barrier with Teresa  |
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10-20-2011, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by groar
Filled-up yesterday, before a professional highway trip : 906.3mi @71.01mpg.
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My Professional Highway Trip @110km/h=68mph: 336.7mi @52.77mpgUS - 541.8km @4.454L/100
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My 90 days MPG went down from 73.9 to 73.3.
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And now down to 72.5mpgUS.
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With a little luck it should be one of my last tank with Megane... and in diesel team 
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I can't wait... Hope I'll be able to "scratch the 3l/100km (78.4mpgUS) barrier"  soon with a "cage" even heavier than my current one
Have fun,
Denis.
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11-06-2011, 07:18 PM
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Well winter has arrived , snow and cold are the evil twins that will need to be overcome. Without better aerodynamic I will not be able to keep above 50 mpg per tank, or 90 days, so I will be working on a Kamm back for the hatch door. I have cut and shaped the aluminium sheet metal and will next cut and shape the foam side peaces that will be glued together with silicon It may take a few weeks to get done... |
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11-07-2011, 01:46 AM
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No snow here yet, but the temps are definitely lower and had fog and heavy rains. Plus I had a long 2-up trip with higher speeds (just did the speed limit for long stretches, even if it was over 90km/h), it was ~560km for a single day. So the last two entries in my log is over 3l/100km, the last one is 3.3. We'll see how the next will look like.
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11-12-2011, 08:33 AM
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65.1 mpg 90-day average
Well, I reached another big goal: a plus-65, ninety-day average (117% above "EPA"). The alternator mod, new non-fouled plugs, and higher-pressure tires are the probable reasons. Question: the 90 day calculation system seems to have changed. It seems now to be attached to the calendar. After both of my last fillups I was at one level in the 90 day average, only to see my number change a few days later as the calendar advanced. That's new, right?
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
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11-12-2011, 08:46 AM
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There used to be an oversight in the way the 90 day average was counted: it was calculated at the time of the latest fill-up, and left unchanged until the next fill-up. That meant if the vehicle was not re-fueled again for more than 90 days, the "90 day" figure still showed, but it was technically wrong.
(That happened to me quite a bit, actually, because I don't drive an awful lot, often going more than 90 days between tanks. It also meant that vehicles which had been "abandoned" in the garage showed permanently outdated 90 day stats.)
For the competition, the calendar is the reference.
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11-12-2011, 09:02 AM
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Cyborg ECU
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It also meant that vehicles which had been "abandoned" in the garage showed permanently outdated 90 day stats.) For the competition, the calendar is the reference.
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So that must mean that a vehicle not driven all winter will drop off the competition lists entirely after ninety days--effectively a 0mpg ninety-day average, no?
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
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