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(Message started by: Highlander on May 22^nd, 2009, 3:10pm)

Title: Economy Scorpio :)
Post by Highlander on May 22^nd, 2009, 3:10pm

I'm currently using the 2.3 Estate I bought off Scorpioman as my daily driver.

Its fitted with lpg so is very economical (for a Scorpio)

While changing the rear shocks the other week I decided to fit a diesel diff to it so it would run at lower revs for the same speed compared to the stock diff.

new diesel diff is a 3.36, old 2.3 diff was 3.91

As expected the revs sit about 10% lower than normal for the same speed which should help my fuel consumption as the car only really does long motorway trips, very few around town trips.

with the old diff is showed 3000 rpm when the speedo read 80 (actual speed 72)

now it shows 2700 (actual speed 72)

I've also fitted the 24v (3.64 diff) drive pinion for the speed sensor which now has the speedo reading almost true speed.

I'm still monitoring the fuel consumption but i reckon it should give me an extra 10% at least on long runs.

On the downside it will probably be the slowest Scorpio away from the lights ever! :)

Title: Re: Economy Scorpio :)
Post by scorpio_man on May 22^nd, 2009, 4:13pm

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now you're showing your tight side now!

lpg is only 54p! someone on another forum posted about the price of petrol. i thought now that my car uses the stuff, i'd better find out how much it costs. never really looked before, even when filling up the wife's honda civic. i just fill it and pay.

anyway, 94.9p! :o give me back my car! ;D

the guy was saying it's went up by about 4p in the last 3 weeks. soon be a £1 again. >:(

only good thing, the mondeo is still doing 31 mpg. that's on short journeys mainly. :) i've only done 400 miles since buying it.

Title: Re: Economy Scorpio :)
Post by wojtekor on May 22^nd, 2009, 6:05pm

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soon be a £1 again.

i use shell v-power and it was around 99,9p last week :o

Title: Re: Economy Scorpio :)
Post by Highlander on May 22^nd, 2009, 8:39pm

I'm paying 43p a litre for lpg in Morrisons in Kilmarnock ;D

Title: Re: Economy Scorpio :)
Post by pinto on May 23^rd, 2009, 3:13pm

regular unleaded was 98.9 last night when i put some in the cossie at the local garage :(

Are morrisons still selling Bio-Ethanol ?

Title: Re: Economy Scorpio :)
Post by rich1 on May 23^rd, 2009, 9:28pm

pinto , thats exactly what i paid today , as a rule i always use shell garages i find them the cheapest , as for B.P , forget it on average i find bp about 3p a litre dearer , if you do a lot of motorway driving , those 3ps soon add up