Hi Scott

At the bottom of the page of this web site you can convert liters per 100km, to miles per US gallons:

http://www.milesgallon.com/converting_miles_to_kilometers.php

And the resulst are:

- 18.094 to 17.424 MPG (13 to 13.5 liters per 100 kilometers) for the 1991 vanagon westfalia automatic, with 296,000 km (183,926 miles) before removing the engine.

- 15.947 to 15.424 MPG (14.75 to 15.25 liters per 100 kilometers) for the 1989 syncro passenger , air condition not connected, with 125,000 miles (201,168 miles) on the body (the syncro is from Vermont).

Pedro

--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
> Subject: Re:      Syncro vs automatic gaz consumption, with same engine and tires!
> To: "pedro dos santos" <pedrokrusher@YAHOO.COM>, vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 10:09 PM
> can you translate that auto trans gas 2.1 fuel milage figure
> to  miles per
> US gallon ?
> be interested to see what that # is.
>
> and the syncro one too of course.
> scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pedro dos santos"
> <pedrokrusher@YAHOO.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:30 PM
> Subject: Syncro vs automatic gaz consumption, with same
> engine and tires!
>
>
> > Hi volks
> >
> > I have an interesting situation where I can actually
> have a pretty acurate
> > gaz consumption comparison.
> >
> > My syncro presently has the same 2.1 engine and tires
> that were in my
> > automatic vanagon! I can actually make a good
> comparison. The engine
> > transplant happened with 296,000 km on the engine this
> past february. So
> > here is my numbers:
> >
> > - In average, I made 13 to 13.5 litres for 100
> kilometers for my vanagon
> > automatic westfalia (it's actually a passenger van
> with all the camper
> > stuff transplanted, including pop-top).
> >
> > - In average, I made 14.75 to 15.25 litres for 100
> kilometers for my
> > syncro passenger, manual of course, air cond not
> connected, 7 passenger,
> > no camper stuff, no pop-top transplant.
> >
> > My way to calculate is to keep all the receipts, and
> to write on each one
> > the actual kilometres of the vehicule, and also the
> kilometers of the trip
> > odometer that I put to zero at each fill up (the one I
> use to calculate).
> > Per example, i calculated on my syncro:
> >
> >
> > 415.2 km         100 km
> > ---------  X   ----------
> > 61.048 l         X litre
> >
> > So I calculate 61.048 X 100 = 6104.8 divided by 415.2
> = 14.70 litres per
> > 100 kilometers.
> >
> >
> > Pedro
> > north shore of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
> > 1991 vanagon westfalia conversion (TDI ALH automatic)
> > 1989 syncro "rustbucket"
> > ex 1986 panelvan partsvan
> > ex 1985 doublecab project