by Rolo » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:37 am
My 3000 kg plus camper returns anything between 5 and 6 km/litre (14 to 17 Miles/gallon) on average with very odd returns of 4.5 and 7 km/litre, the last figure while using acetone last year.
City or highway driving makes no much difference; odometer and speedo are spot on and although I never accelerate hard I do keep, or try to keep to the speed limit most of the time, at 80 to 100-110km/h.
Maximum speed ever was 139 km/h (when engine was much newer fifteen years ago, on a long flat stretch and with the wind behind - which doesn't happen very often with a big thing like this), just one kgm/h short of the maximum 140 km/h marked on the speedo but I never pushed it that hard again.
At 3000 rpm on overdrive (.68 overdrive and 4.63 diff) it does 100 km but I cannot keep that on long hills.
1973 drw; Falcon 250 c.i.; 12v fuel pump; belt-driven water pump & fan replaced with 12v water pump & two 12" fans; T5 gearbox; Mark II front discs.