Success with the Blue Meanie

[Phantom]

Success this is my 500th post and its about my new car.



A few weeks ago I took a trip to North Carolina to pick up a 2002 Golf TDI with a manual transmission. I had been wanting one of these for years but could not afford/find one. To make a boring story short I found one and purchased it.

My first tank was at 42.2 all highway with big hills for 500mi then to work 196mi round trip mostly highway (filled before getting home). I did not take it easy on the car just had some fun and getting used to driving a manual as for the 10yrs I have been driving I have only driven automatics, I did know how to drive a manual but only had 50mi under my belt.

The remaning tanks in my fuel log are from a fairly consistant drive to and from work about 98mi each way on highways at 70-75mph. So far my tank average is 43.93 my old car the average was 25.8 a good increase of 70%.

I will continue to work on getting better mpg and I will use this post to track my goals and sucesses along with listing my modifications.


Goals completed:
700mi tank
800mi tank 50mpg*

Goals for the future:
Doubble the avg MPG of my Bonneville 25.8*2=51.6mpg
Doubble the BEST MPG of my Bonneville 30.18*2=60.4mpg


55mpg
60mpg
(Tank holds ~16)
900mi tank 56.25mpg
1000mi tank 62.5mpg

I found a station that has BioDiesel that is blended between B5-B20 so I hope to get those goals on a Bioblend.

[Phantom]

I will be useing this post to keep track of the modifications completed on the Golf and link to posts showing the changes as they happen.

Eco-mods:
Grill Block v1.5 (Upper and lower blocked)
DRL delete
Yokohama avid ascend LRR tires


Other Mods:
Ventectomy

[CigaR007]

Best of luck with your new car !

[Phantom]

I have made some progress I added a grill block for the upper and lower also I have new tires that have helped me break 50mpg and 800mi on one tank. I cant wait to do more work on this car since I'm getting 50 mpg driving 70-75mph.

[Phantom]

Update
To start my last tank is the best yet 51.2mpg only 1 mpg better that my previous best but the current tank is looking better. The last tank got me 848.9mi so it is getting close to the 900mi mark

Here is what has changed in the last month:
Car rolled 200,000mi
Replaced temp sensor it died on me and kept fans on for two tanks
Changed t-stat w/hotter 195F
63% coolant + 6oz watter wetter
Oil changed 0w-40
Larger fuel filter eliminated fuel heater
Replaced Vacuum lines