fuel consumption / range

[apollo1979]

Hi,

Ok i have had my E4 for 2 weeks now

because i am fairly new to Evo,s well owning one anyway

could someone help me with reducing my fuel consumption and what should it be

my driving stile is moderate nutter nothing too bad

like to put my foot down the odd time but you know what its like new toy and all that

but if a few people with E4-5 & 6 could let me know what they get / range on a full tank so that i can tell if i have a problem with the car or just need to let off the gas a little

would V-power help? i use esso excelium or what ever its called 97oct but that only because the garage is 2 seconds away would it be worth trying shell?

it does smell to be running rich is this normal?

thanks for any advice i can get i know evo,s are not exactly economical and i am under no pretence that i can run it on a tenner a week but would like to know if i have a problem that needs fixing

Rob

 

[yellowevo5]

hi rob got my evo a few months ago. a full tank cost me 40 dolla, i get about 150 miles out of it, depending if you put your foot down, but there not cheap on fuel as i found out

 

[Tom C]

Buying Good Fuel made a diffrence to me, 97ron instead of normal 95ron unleaded, I'd say about 20% better mpg and alittle extra va va vroom

 

[apollo1979]

right i am going to try Vpower then or what ever its called now used to be optimax

then i am going to work out my MPG and only use my accelerator in an emergency

but its really hard to resist dusting some plonkers if you know what i mean

 

[yellowevo5]

lol i do it all the time, when you get the saxo next to you

 

[WALTZER LAD]

I allways use v-power even i got a bp across the road & the shell garage is 7miles down on the m5

 

[apollo1979]

i am going to fill up tomorrow with the opti see what thats like

yes yellowevo why is it always the saxo,s? and corsas or some other plonker with a burberry cap on who looks like munch off 3 pints of larger what world do they live in?

anyway i am going to try opti and work out my mpg

 

[Evo Ash]

Expect anything between 100-250 miles to a tank depends on your tune and your driving style.. try to drive off boost as much as possible when your just pottering around

 

[Skuff]

I agree with the above... Try and keep the car at around 2.5k revs when not driving hard.. I know when i had my 4 i managed to empty a tank in 90 miles, But on a long journey i managed 250

 

[ballbag evo]

Hi rob i alway use v-power and the others eg tesco super are shit in my eyes i got a 8 and tryed the lot and find that v-power is the best and i have been told this by a copany that make fuel for f1 and super bike i hope this help you out paul

 

[Evo Ash]

Hi rob i alway use v-power and the others eg tesco super are shit in my eyes i got a 8 and tryed the lot and find that v-power is the best and i have been told this by a copany that make fuel for f1 and super bike i hope this help you out paul

You say this but when my car was completley unmolested it ran 295hp on tescos and alot of people use it and alot of mappers will tell you youll get less knock on tescos than V power

 

[Skuff]

You say this but when my car was completley unmolested it ran 295hp on tescos and alot of people use it and alot of mappers will tell you youll get less knock on tescos than V power

ive heard this too

 

[superfootwear]

Hi all I recently bought an evo 7 with nothing much really modified on it apart from exhaust and air filter. Was wondering what sort of miles your supposed to get from £20 shell v-power because I only got 60 miles. Wanted to know if this sounded right or if I need to check the car out to see if its been modified to run higher fuel . Thanks all.

 

[apollo1979]

I would say 60 miles on £20 isnt bad i only got around 30 with the esso version

but i had been playing abit

have not tried Vpower yet i didnt have enough fuel to make it to the shell station so had to use esso again

i will try both tesco 99 and vpower see whats best but i am trying to be a bit more light footed now

My evo 4 is totally standard right down to the exhaust which has a million silencers need to get that changed want a Blue Flame just need to convince the misses its a really good idea any ideas how i can do that ?

 

[kevin]

i have seen a few std maps for these cars and based on what i saw it would be very easy to get much better mileage if you tweek the ecu,,,you would also get more power as well...ive seen maps from a 8 as well and it would seem to be hitting 9: 1 afrs in the hight load, and ,high rpm sections of the ecu map ,thats when it sense the slightest of knock.... a quick flash and afr, was now in the 11.7 area,with no knock,and the result is much much better mileage(120miles on a little over half tank) hard driving, with a extra 40whp

 

[tonyj36]

Fuel

Ive got a Evo 6 a full tank cost me £36 and thats the BP V-power and if i drive normal i can get 200 miles to a tank, but it does go down quite a bit if i boot it which is really hard not to, only mods are a full jap stainless exhaust, i put a cold air induction kit on but it felt the power was down so i put the standard box back on and now it's fine, but wot a awesome car to drive, just like them as there different

 

[Evo Ash]

i have seen a few std maps for these cars and based on what i saw it would be very easy to get much better mileage if you tweek the ecu,,,you would also get more power as well...ive seen maps from a 8 as well and it would seem to be hitting 9: 1 afrs in the hight load, and ,high rpm sections of the ecu map ,thats when it sense the slightest of knock.... a quick flash and afr, was now in the 11.7 area,with no knock,and the result is much much better mileage(120miles on a little over half tank) hard driving, with a extra 40whp

Thats very true although id say the gains of 40hp are more of a flywheel figure.. i noticed a difference when we played with mine and smoothed the fueling map out that made a difference on its own

 

[DennisEvo]

I have an evo8 n I soon got bored of dusting saxos ect,I prefer to go for the big boys like astons ect,more of a challenge so its rare that I put my foot down,I did a little test last time I filled up,with it bin my daily drive I stuck it at 50-60mph all the time,it costs me £45 from 1/4 tank to fill n I cn get 330miles out of it,and I never let the fuel light come on,coasting down hills also helps.

 

[superfootwear]

Hi just an update I now managed to get 80 miles out of my evo 7 with £20 of shell v - power costing 109.9p per litre. This is an increase of 20 miles coz I last got only 60 miles from £20 of shell v-power. The increase was probably because I was sitting in less traffic. But I think 80 miles is gonna be the best I get out of the car with every day driving.

 

[DennisEvo]

So ur paying 109.9 a ltr for extra miles instead of paying 101.9 for a few less miles,I'm sure if u worked out the diference the extra 8p a ltr was making to ur economy itl work out its not worth it,iv used normal unleaded n so far iv put 65quid in n iv managed 420miles, I normaly use shell but iv used morisons,asda,tesco n sainsburys n it hasn't changed my mpg.