Where are all the Delica's?

[impalator]

Drove down from 100 Mile House today.... and saw only one Delica - in Boston Bar, parked on the side near the Husky Station with tailgate open...

Usually I see several Deli's - on the Chilliwack-Vancouver stretch alone...

Oh well... that aside... I really have to have a Deli-Tune done... my fuel kilometerage sucks... I only get about 400km's on one tank - and I don't think I'm being overly aggressive on the gas pedal. Also I noticed - while tracking myself with the GPS - that I am doing about 10% speed less than what my Delica-Speedometer tells me.

I have the standard tires on standard rims... did the Delica's have larger tires in Japan? I guess with larger tires, I would get better speed/rpm ratio and the actual speed displayed on the dash would be more in line... As it stands right now doing about 100km/h on the GPS (i.e. 110 on the Delica-Speedometer) will have the engine rev at around 2'600

Will larger tires improve gas consumption vs. distance (for each turn, a bit more distance) or will it be worse - or will it not really matter at all? And if it would worsen the gas kilometerage - why would that be? If anybody knows - just out of curiosity...

Hope everybody had a nice long weekend...

Back to the grind...

Cheers, Chris

[loki]

Drove down from 100 Mile House today.... and saw only one Delica - in Boston Bar, parked on the side near the Husky Station with tailgate open...

Usually I see several Deli's - on the Chilliwack-Vancouver stretch alone...

Oh well... that aside... I really have to have a Deli-Tune done... my fuel kilometerage sucks... I only get about 400km's on one tank - and I don't think I'm being overly aggressive on the gas pedal. Also I noticed - while tracking myself with the GPS - that I am doing about 10% speed less than what my Delica-Speedometer tells me.

I have the standard tires on standard rims... did the Delica's have larger tires in Japan? I guess with larger tires, I would get better speed/rpm ratio and the actual speed displayed on the dash would be more in line... As it stands right now doing about 100km/h on the GPS (i.e. 110 on the Delica-Speedometer) will have the engine rev at around 2'600

Will larger tires improve gas consumption vs. distance (for each turn, a bit more distance) or will it be worse - or will it not really matter at all? And if it would worsen the gas kilometerage - why would that be? If anybody knows - just out of curiosity...

Hope everybody had a nice long weekend...

Back to the grind...

Cheers, Chris

the larger tires give more distance per turn but it is also harder for the engine to turn them, it's like gears on a bike, the higher gears you go farther per pedal but it's harder to get it going :) as for whether you end up with better or worse, it really depends on the size you go up too, I'm on 31" tires and I think it averages to about the same but it's worse in the city and better on the highway.

[jessef]

31's on an auto will net you less mpg than 235/75's
31's on a 5-spd will net you better mpg than 235/75's

it's all in the gearing

the biggest determination for mpg is your foot.

i'll get 24-25 mpg on the highway doing 95 km/h with a very light foot and no pushing down on uphills
i'll get 16-18 mpg on the highway doing +108 km/h driving moderately

as soon as you hit over 2,800 rpmish on an auto or 2,900 rpmish on a 5spd, the fuel starts sucking really bad.

there is a sweet spot on the highway for both auto and 5spd's. once you find it, you'll know.

as for city driving. the auto sucks fuel like a thirsty cow in the middle of a desert compared to the 5spd's.

driving as heavy footed as I can get without getting crazy, I get 22 mpg in the city no matter uphill, traffic or standing still on my 5spd. I had a very difficult time getting almost 1/2 that in the city with the same driving style on my prev auto.

[FlashJ]

As it stands right now doing about 100km/h on the GPS (i.e. 110 on the Delica-Speedometer) will have the engine rev at around 2'600

I was running back from Merritt last weekend and was doing 110 @ 2,800 RPM... 120 @ 3,000 RPM. Is it strange that the "sweet spot" seems to be in that range (2,800-3,000rpm)? Under it sounds like the engine is working it but at that point it slides into quiet cruise mode...

oh, and to not TOTALLY hijack the thread... I saw 3 Delica's going out and one coming back. Also saw 3 on the sea2sky coming back from the spit the weekend before.

So far lovin this machine!

FlashJ

[andre66]

Drove down from 100 Mile House today.... and saw only one Delica - in Boston Bar, parked on the side near the Husky Station with tailgate open...

Usually I see several Deli's - on the Chilliwack-Vancouver stretch alone...

Oh well... that aside... I really have to have a Deli-Tune done... my fuel kilometerage sucks... I only get about 400km's on one tank - and I don't think I'm being overly aggressive on the gas pedal. Also I noticed - while tracking myself with the GPS - that I am doing about 10% speed less than what my Delica-Speedometer tells me.

I have the standard tires on standard rims... did the Delica's have larger tires in Japan? I guess with larger tires, I would get better speed/rpm ratio and the actual speed displayed on the dash would be more in line... As it stands right now doing about 100km/h on the GPS (i.e. 110 on the Delica-Speedometer) will have the engine rev at around 2'600

Will larger tires improve gas consumption vs. distance (for each turn, a bit more distance) or will it be worse - or will it not really matter at all? And if it would worsen the gas kilometerage - why would that be? If anybody knows - just out of curiosity...

Hope everybody had a nice long weekend...

Back to the grind...

Cheers, Chris

I don't think the fuel gauges are all that accurate, at least on mine, i commonly have the needle touching empty and my odometer shows about 425km's traveled, but when i top up the diesel it only takes 35 litres to fill it.

[Dewy]

I have been watching my fuel very keenly on my drive up the coast here.
I noticed that I am getting an average of 500 kms if I stay under 100 kph on the highway, but it does drop considerably when i am going over 110 kph.
However, I did get one day of almost 600 kms per tank and I was cruising btw 80-90.

I wonder if the quality of diesel varies greatly from one brand to the other. In saying that I got worse mileage with the diesel in Mexico.

Also to comment on the fuel guage. I think there pretty wacked. I have had over a 100kms on the odometer and the feul guage has barely moved off the full line. I have also had a couple times where i have over 300 kms and i still have half a tank.

i will be interested to know what my average has been when i finally do get back to Canada - 10 months and counting.

peace