Date:         Sun, 14 May 2006 21:42:17 -0400
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Subject:      Re: Gas Milage Mystery (Or Not)
Comments: To: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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I'm suprized the fuel mileage was that close together.  Your drivng
habits alone can make much more of a difference.


Loren Busch wrote:

> I'll toss this out to the lists for information and discussion.  I just
> returned from a 3,000 mile, 27 day excursion from the Seattle area to
> Hollister and back.  I'm driving a '90 Westy.  I was traveling with
> another
> Westy, an '87.  Both running stock 2.1L WBX, both automatics.  The '87 is
> running 16" wheels, I'm running stock 14" alloys and 185R14 Agilis
> 61's.  When
> we ran ourselves over a weigh station, I was about 300 lbs heavier
> than the
> '87 (I'm a pack rat) and in addition I'm running with a Bagawest carrier,
> sticks up better than a foot above the luggage rack.  The '87 is carrying
> 'stuff' in the luggage rack, tied down.  When these two vehicles ran
> together for about 10 days last fall, the '87 frequently used from a
> tenth
> to a half a gallon less gas than my '90 at fill ups. (didn't have the
> Bagawest at that time).  On this trip, after getting an injector problem
> fixed a couple of days into the tip, my '90 consistently used from a
> tenth
> to half a gallon LESS than the '87!  And this was not flat out highway
> driving, it was a lot of up and down, twisty stuff, Highway 101/1
> along the
> Oregon and California coast, out and back.  I had had a set of rebuilt
> injectors installed just before the trip.  One went bad in about 100
> miles
> and was replaced with a used injector.
>
> I'll let the list speculate on why the difference between the two
> vehicles
> performance, and also speculate (or just take note) that the
> performance of
> the two was so close.
>
> Waiting for comments……
>