How many miles do you get to a tank??

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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by alicrozier » Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:09 pm

dezzy wrote: When I had my Elise 111R, I once got about 320 miles out of a tank - purely motorway driving in 6th gear. Think the Elise was a bit lighter than the Exige too, so guess that explains why the Exige doesn't get as many miles out of a tank.
Maye extra drag rather than weight... (big parachute thing stuck on the engine cover). :wink:
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by Victor Meldrew » Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:12 pm

Dont know, never made it the end of a full one without it breaking down.... :(


that is how it feels anyway.. :?
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by craignicol » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:06 pm

Cheers chaps!

Perhaps there's not a hole in the tank then! :lol:
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by meatball » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:40 pm

I got 400 miles from the tank on the way to a Walshy day.
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by renmure » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:53 pm

About 12 months worth of driving from the last one :oops: :blackeye
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by BiggestNizzy » Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:06 pm

Managed 400 miles on a trip to Norfolk in my S1
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by neil » Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:20 pm

meatball wrote:I got 400 miles from the tank on the way to a Walshy day.
How? The most I've ever got out of mine is 250
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by tut » Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:53 pm

Craig, that only works out at either side of 20mpg, which for general road work is pretty low.

I am getting around 30, but only 10 on track.

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ps however just read that you have been hoofing it for the fun.
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Post by Corranga » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:07 pm

alicrozier wrote:I think the tank must be bigger (or the filler neck - I did brim it).
Potential urban myth here...

I heard there isn't much point brimming it / filling past the first click as the fuel heads out the overflow and evaporates, so I never fill past the first click.

My s1 is an odd device. I get 35-40 on the daily commute, but have seen closer to 45 on a spirited country road drive. S'pose it doesn't like the start/stop of morning traffic.

Will try to remember to work out track mileage tonight actually, just out of interest.

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Post by Mikie711 » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:03 pm

S1 with wild cams, TB's and ported head still gives 200-250 on a gentle run. Hoofing it that drops to about 100 maybe less.

S2 Exige between 220-240 everyday driving and 140 on a fun run.
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by meatball » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:52 pm

neil wrote:
meatball wrote:I got 400 miles from the tank on the way to a Walshy day.
How? The most I've ever got out of mine is 250
Constant 80 tuts and that's what I got. Jinty got the same mileage from a smaller tank/less fuel in her old 111s.
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Post by campbell » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:03 pm

BiggestNizzy wrote:Managed 400 miles on a trip to Norfolk in my S1
Now you sir are an economy GOD. I have long hoped for that magic 400-miler but never had the opportunity or driving conditions for long enough to attempt it!!

Think my best so far (broadly std S1) has been about 360. Your 400 miles on say 35 litres is essentially 50mpg. Surely there was a lot of pootling at 50-60 involved?

I can definitely achieve 45mpg on steady m-way driving, ie about 350 miles from the tank, and 40 is my usual commute-led number (cold start with 3 miles through town to m-way for a further 12 or so), I posted about 34 with "spirited" driving to o5o7o9 and 38 with not much less spirited driving on the way home, must've been downhill coming back :shock:

300-ish seems to be a common number when I reset the trip every couple of months or so at the gas station!

Chargers are going to take a lot off those numbers, as of course do CR boxes. But on a light throttle the std S1 fairly whispers its way along and in these straitened times you can hardly argue with that.

Oh and as with Ali's old S2, I don't think I could get my S1 below 22mpg or so on track either. And I drive like a granny compared to him...
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by neil » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:33 pm

meatball wrote:
neil wrote:
meatball wrote:I got 400 miles from the tank on the way to a Walshy day.
How? The most I've ever got out of mine is 250
Constant 80 tuts and that's what I got. Jinty got the same mileage from a smaller tank/less fuel in her old 111s.
I'm obviously driving too slowly :D
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by Noops » Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:21 am

lots....... :D
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Re: How many miles do you get to a tank??

Post by BiggestNizzy » Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:18 am

It was really sh*t weather when I managed the 400 so I was driving along at 50-60 just taking my time, although I won't get that now I have fitted the cams,head and zorst
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