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a very cool,

well i get about 27MPG

Nice converter!

I get about 40mpg

Last top up I recorded a whopping 32mpg! Phwoar.
Speaking of which, anywhere know where I can buy replacement carburettor jets?

GroovyCarrot wrote:Last top up I recorded a whopping 32mpg! Phwoar.
Speaking of which, anywhere know where I can buy replacement carburettor jets?

I can beat that: 26mpg last time i filled my mk2 up. I ran some redex through the carb a few weeks ago though and Ive done about 50 miles since I filled it to the top and its still reading full. Last time Im sure it was getting towards 3/4 after 50 miles, (the fuel gauge on the mk2 is very linear) And I had to fill up when it was bordering on red after a measly 210 miles. By comparison I managed 43mpg on a trip down to bristol in the 1.4 GT (which is far from standard) but that required a very light right foot.

Anyway I shall let thee know if running redex through the carb has *magically* sorted my fuel economy.

GroovyCarrot wrote:Last top up I recorded a whopping 32mpg! Phwoar.
Speaking of which, anywhere know where I can buy replacement carburettor jets?

Have you set your float height up?

if i didnt already have an excel sheet that i use for that (logging total miles etc as well), it would be bling bling super cool

actually it is anyway!

Gareth_GT_Hatch wrote:I can beat that: 26mpg last time i filled my mk2 up. I ran some redex through the carb a few weeks ago though and Ive done about 50 miles since I filled it to the top and its still reading full. Last time Im sure it was getting towards 3/4 after 50 miles, (the fuel gauge on the mk2 is very linear) And I had to fill up when it was bordering on red after a measly 210 miles. By comparison I managed 43mpg on a trip down to bristol in the 1.4 GT (which is far from standard) but that required a very light right foot.

Anyway I shall let thee know if running redex through the carb has *magically* sorted my fuel economy.

Sounds exactly like mine.. very easy to guage because I go through a quarter of a tank every 50 miles. It was a right shock borrowing my sister's corsa to drive to pembroke, got there and it still had most of the tank left, 50mpg.. wish mine would do that

Have you set your float height up?

Yep, sadly made no difference at all I asked my mechanic and he said it was almost certainly the jets, because weber don't set their carbs up for the individual car they're sold for, they just sell them as a standard setup. Just trying to find out what size jets I should be using and where I can get them from now..

GroovyCarrot wrote:Yep, sadly made no difference at all I asked my mechanic and he said it was almost certainly the jets, because weber don't set their carbs up for the individual car they're sold for, they just sell them as a standard setup. Just trying to find out what size jets I should be using and where I can get them from now..

First thing is not what jets you need but what jets you are running!!!

How do I tell? (Sorry, seem to have hijacked this thread a bit..)

dreading working my next one out.... put about 43 litres in the vox that only just had it's Empty light come on.... pretty sure i hadn't gone all that far. i'll be chuffed with 35mpg.....!

http://www.fuelsystem.co.uk/dcoe_jets.htm

http://www.carburettorspecialists.com/C ... 200000.htm

bstardchild wrote:http://www.fuelsystem.co.uk/dcoe_jets.htm

http://www.carburettorspecialists.com/C ... 200000.htm

Ta

GroovyCarrot wrote:How do I tell? (Sorry, seem to have hijacked this thread a bit..)

Thats the bugger - carb off and to bits and look at all the jets they are stamped with their sizes

I'd be buying this