Re: Wheel's & Tank's

[Robert Houk - WorkGroup Server Firmware <Robert.Houk@East.Sun.COM>]

   >   >  I'm just saying a 26 gallon fuel tank would be quite helpful to
   >   > > me.  I live out in the sticks and must drive a minimum of 20 miles
   to go
   >   > > or do anything.  I was just wondering the feasibility of
   retrofitting a
   >   > > ur-Quattro's tank to my CGT.  That's all.
   >
   >I should imagine that it would fit, but you'll lose half of your
   >trunk (how do you think they fit it in the UrQ?)...  That said, it
   >is really neat to have a 500 mile range with comfortable reserve
   >left over!


   Being picky here...
   Ur quattro fuel tank capacity
   90 litres = 19.8 Imperial gallons = 23.8 US gallons
   Between my last two fills I got approx 400 miles of general driving from
   16.5 Imperial gallons. This would give me 480 miles to an empty tank. If I
   drove with a really light right foot I could get more but I wouldn't enjoy
   myself half as much.

The last time I seriously checked (aka: "when the odometer was still
reliably recording mileage"), some years back, I would reliably get
24+mpg on Shell 9x (91? 92? 93? whatever their best then was) octane
(not overly-spirited driving; better if I spent the entire tank just
"crusin' on the open highway"), and 22-23mpg on Mobil and Exxon, which
is 525 to 575 miles on a tank full; I like to keep a reserve of 50-60
miles, so "500 mile range" was quite accurate [for my UrQ, at that
time]. Blitzing up and down the (e.g.,) Angeles Crest or Pikes Peak
highways, I could incur substantially lower mpg numbers . . .

Lately (past few years), I believe the mileage has dropped an mpg or
two, but don't have accurate-enough records to substantiate that "gut
feeling".

FWIW...

					-RDH