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9261
Article titled "Top End Overhaul V4 Engine" available online at: http://au.geocities.com/saabtechnical/V4TopEndOverhaul Note: this is a general article...
Shan
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Mar 3, 2003
1:20 am
9262
I'm just curious... For those of you with stock or nearly stock V4s running about... what sort of fuel mileage are you seeing? I've no clue what I get in...
Stefan Vapaa
svapaa
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Mar 3, 2003
6:16 pm
9263
Again remembering this is Imperial gallons, not US: Urban: 28 MPG Mptorway 39 MPG Neil....
Neil Plucknett
artistsrifles
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Mar 3, 2003
6:18 pm
9264
According to www.onlineconversion.com... 28 gallon [UK] = 33.626597 gallon [US, liquid] 39 gallon [UK] = 46.837046 gallon [US, liquid] This is a 96/95? Not a...
Stefan Vapaa
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Mar 3, 2003
6:35 pm
9265
Stefan, On my '70 which is my mostly-stock 96, I get about 23 town 28 highway. When my '71 had the Weber progressive two barrel, it would get even BETTER...
Charlie Melonic
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Mar 3, 2003
7:02 pm
9266
... . . ... I could probably believe them. When I was driving my '69 96 from Pennsylvania to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina , I was getting about 29-30 mpg with...
Reigle, Kurt
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Mar 3, 2003
7:40 pm
9267
Bog standard V4 95 circa 1974. All that's different is the throttle link is the (in)famous Noonan rose joint :-) Neil....
Neil Plucknett
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Mar 3, 2003
8:15 pm
9268
A US gal. is .83 Imperial Gal, so the mileages should have been multiplied by .83 which results in: 23 city 32 highway john hlavka...
John R. Hlavka
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Mar 3, 2003
10:17 pm
9269
The previous owner of my '69 Sonett claims (and has the odometer readings documented to prove) achieving 55+ mpg by scrutinous use of the freewheel. That...
Chris Floyd <chris_fl...
chris_floyd_v4
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Mar 3, 2003
10:47 pm
9270
When I checked last summer, I was getting around 22 city and 30 highway....
squashrot@...
squashrot2000
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Mar 3, 2003
11:38 pm
9271
... Unfortunately, it's been a few years since I've run a V-4. I kept track of mileage and gas purchases in my '67 V-4 from the time I first bought it in May ...
Andrew Peterson
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Mar 4, 2003
12:26 am
9272
My personal best was an average of 44 mpg over an 800 mile interstate trip in a stock '73 Sonett, using the freewheel and extensive drafting of...
Lee <fischer3@...>
isettas4u
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Mar 4, 2003
12:38 am
9273
... One of the scarier parts of my trip across I-40 in the Great Smokies in the middle of the night, was having a truck pushing me down the hill at over 80mph,...
Andrew Peterson
lyrlsbro
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Mar 4, 2003
1:26 am
9274
... I'm reeeeeally skeptical about that. But I do agree that you can increase the gas mileage by coasting down hills. (The freewheel makes it easier, but you...
Jean-Joseph Cote
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Mar 4, 2003
4:09 am
9275
I didn't know the conversion off the top of my head, and I didn't have a reference book handy so I went top the internet to get my conversion factor... ...
Stefan Vapaa
svapaa
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Mar 4, 2003
1:50 pm
9276
Units, units, units... They have to cancel out. So: 28 miles ... Gal (UK) Has Gal (UK) in the denominator. To cancel out, you would have to multiply by: ...
Craig Webster
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Mar 4, 2003
2:23 pm
9277
There's always that "downhill-both-ways" trip to consider but... While I haven't compiled the replies to get an average it certainly seems that: 1. a decent...
Stefan Vapaa
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Mar 4, 2003
2:28 pm
9278
28 miles to 1.2 gal of gas city.... 39 miles to 1.2gal of gas highway..... or 28*.83= 23.24mpg US 39*.83= 32.3mpg US Jeremy who never got the credits in...
J Vaughan
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Mar 4, 2003
3:22 pm
9279
Not that you'd want to particularly. Get your right foot down and watch that gas gauge drop! You Statesiders don't know how good you've got it. Gas in the UK...
Jason
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Mar 4, 2003
4:00 pm
9280
if there's 100p to the pound then $4.77 per gallon gas here in Sacramento have hit $2.16 gal for 89 oct.... Jeremy ... ...
J Vaughan
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Mar 4, 2003
4:09 pm
9281
I'm tired of converting measuremnts... my brain hurts. I DO know how good we've got it. It makes me ill to hear some of our politicians saying it is time to...
Stefan Vapaa
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Mar 4, 2003
4:11 pm
9282
... So am I. The best I do is 12 km/l = 28.5 MPG highway or 10 km/l (23.7 MPG) city. On LPG only 8 km/l (19 MPG) (cars with two stage Solex carb and using...
Martin Hilvers
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Mar 4, 2003
4:57 pm
9283
Is it not the case in The States(as in Britain) that most of the price of fuel is tax? We had fuel tax protestors a while back that were stopping tanker trucks...
Jason
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Mar 4, 2003
5:09 pm
9284
This should clear it up: We have 'X imperial MPG' or: X Miles ... 1 Imperial Gallon and: (1.2 US Gal) ... (1.0 Imperial Gal) So to convert the units, do this: ...
Joshua Pollak
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Mar 4, 2003
5:15 pm
9285
... We've been here before, but it gets me started every time it comes up again; here in NL one liter of 98 RON with lead substitute cost about EUR 1,15 At the...
Martin Hilvers
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Mar 4, 2003
5:24 pm
9286
Ack! My teachers were right... I actually would want to remember this stuff someday! What a revelation... Thanks. I now have to go and reasses my basic...
Stefan Vapaa
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Mar 4, 2003
5:51 pm
9287
Is that imperial or US gallons?...
Jason
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Mar 4, 2003
6:06 pm
9288
... I used US$ in my example, so why would I use imp gallons? 4.80/1.26 = 3.80 1 US gallon = 3.8 liter (3.785 to be more accurate) 1 imp gallon = 4.546 liter ...
Martin Hilvers
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Mar 4, 2003
6:52 pm
9289
... Isn't it all downhill from here?...
Andrew Peterson
lyrlsbro
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Mar 4, 2003
7:38 pm
9290
... Maybe people would start getting the old Hondas and Corollas out of the back yard, instead of the '65 Mercury's and '60 Ramblers, etc. that I've seen...
Andrew Peterson
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Mar 4, 2003
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