Date:         Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:20:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Rouby <mikerouby@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Mike Rouby <mikerouby@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Supercharged Westy Vanagon
Comments: To: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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As the UK Gallon is officially extinct, as a UK resident, I can tell you that it is not.  While fuel is purchased in liters, and we do have the EU forcing metric measurements down our throats, we still use MPH and all documentation for buying cars shows both metric fuel consumptio and imperical gallons per mile.  Most people only talk in gallons and almost never in kilos per litre.

  All the best.

David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA> wrote:
  1 US Gallon (UK Gallon is extinct as the UK and the rest of the British
Commonwealth uses the metric system... along with the rest of the world
including the US military and US scientific community) is 3.78 liters.

8 to 11 l/100km is 29.4 to 21.4 "state side" mpg

My experience is 8 to 9L per 100km up to 100km/h and 10L per 100km up to
120km/h

Here is a good link for figuring this stuff out:

http://www.tdiclub.com/misc/conversions.html

David Marshall


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Bill Kasper
Sent: August 21, 2006 14:53
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Supercharged Westy Vanagon

On Aug 21, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
> I prefer diesel, but I'm following the Zetec conversion. Bernd
> Jäger (Germany) reports the
> following l/100 Kms:
> 1.9L TDI:--8 to 11 ltr/100 kms.
> V6 TDI: ---10 to 13 ltr/100 kms
>
> for more infor: http://www.syncro-bernd-jaeger.de/ENGLISH/index.html

to put this in more anglo-centric measures (based on 1 gallon = 4.55
litres and 1 mile = 1.61 kilometres):

1.9L TDI:--25.7 to 35.3 mpg (avg 29.7 mpg)
V6 TDI: ---21.7 to 28.2 mpg (avg 24.6 mpg)

bill
felton, ca



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