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Long Highway Drives are good!
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Fri, 17 May 2002 08:15
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Having spent a week doing a return trip from Sydney to Bryon Bay, the engine has certainly clean itself out. I only noticed it when I was driving familar roads again. I was amazed the car felt strong with a fuel tank of petrol, one passenger and luggage.
I just wonder how long it will be before it chokes up again with this city driving.
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Re: Long Highway Drives are good!
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Fri, 17 May 2002 08:43
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Did you remove the parkers? I think that helps a lot at low altitudes.
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Fri, 17 May 2002 10:41
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dont forget to stop revive survive!..
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Turramurra, Sydney.
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Re: Long Highway Drives are good!
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Fri, 17 May 2002 16:01
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Hehe, nice avatar messy, exactly what you needed.  
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Fri, 17 May 2002 16:19
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Iggy - What sort of fuel economy were you getting on the highway trip? Have you found your "around town" economy to be any better since you blew the cobwebs out?
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Re: Long Highway Drives are good!
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Sat, 18 May 2002 11:35
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Paul,
It was silly of me, but I never bothered calculating fuel economy until this recent trip. At best highway was 12, averaging 11.5. In the city it is 8.8ltrs. My book quotes 12 and 10 for a stock Camry.
The only thing I can say is that the power has definately returned to the car. It hasn't felt this way since I put on the extractors/exhaust back in 1999.
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Re: Long Highway Drives are good!
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Sat, 18 May 2002 12:00
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I didn't bother with the park light as I want to see how the ram air would perform. It definately sucks things up, I found a piece of bark in the air box at Port Maquaire.
The cardboard pre heater ducting started to wear out at Coffs Harbour. Then at a stupid attempted at driving at unsealed road after it rain the bellmouth and front air dam went crunch! So I had to perform an amputation in Bryon.
Now that the left side of the front air dam is looking a bit sorry, I'm going to cut a rectangle section out to install a brake duct and race grill to feed into the airbox as a more permanent feature. Will also source thick plastic ducting with reinforced metal wire instead of pre heater ducting.
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May 2002
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Sat, 18 May 2002 15:16
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Think of it this way, now you can put on the pre series 3 SV21 front air dam and also have a front spoiler off the V6 Camry on it.
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Re: Long Highway Drives are good!
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Sun, 19 May 2002 09:18
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Hey Camryman, is that 12 litres / 100 kms ?
what engine are u running ? is it a stockie or a hotted up one? I have just started a new thread re fuel consumption... just q-rious thats all 
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Re: Long Highway Drives are good!
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Thu, 23 May 2002 05:34
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No that is 12Km/L as quoted in my manual.
I suppose you can calculate that back to ltr per 100km
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