Neat trip.

No idea on the gas usage though.

Mike (been to Hollister want to go to Seattle.)

On 5/14/06 6:42 PM, "--------------------" <vw4x4@VERIZON.NET> wrote:

> I'm suprized the fuel mileage was that close together.  Your drivng
> habits alone can make much more of a difference.
> 
> 
> Loren Busch wrote:
> 
>> I'll toss this out to the lists for information and discussion.  I just
>> returned from a 3,000 mile, 27 day excursion from the Seattle area to
>> Hollister and back.  I'm driving a '90 Westy.  I was traveling with
>> another
>> Westy, an '87.  Both running stock 2.1L WBX, both automatics.  The '87 is
>> running 16" wheels, I'm running stock 14" alloys and 185R14 Agilis
>> 61's.  When
>> we ran ourselves over a weigh station, I was about 300 lbs heavier
>> than the
>> '87 (I'm a pack rat) and in addition I'm running with a Bagawest carrier,
>> sticks up better than a foot above the luggage rack.  The '87 is carrying
>> 'stuff' in the luggage rack, tied down.  When these two vehicles ran
>> together for about 10 days last fall, the '87 frequently used from a
>> tenth
>> to a half a gallon less gas than my '90 at fill ups. (didn't have the
>> Bagawest at that time).  On this trip, after getting an injector problem
>> fixed a couple of days into the tip, my '90 consistently used from a
>> tenth
>> to half a gallon LESS than the '87!  And this was not flat out highway
>> driving, it was a lot of up and down, twisty stuff, Highway 101/1
>> along the
>> Oregon and California coast, out and back.  I had had a set of rebuilt
>> injectors installed just before the trip.  One went bad in about 100
>> miles
>> and was replaced with a used injector.
>> 
>> I'll let the list speculate on why the difference between the two
>> vehicles
>> performance, and also speculate (or just take note) that the
>> performance of
>> the two was so close.
>> 
>> Waiting for comments��
>> 
> 
>