Mk3: 4000Km African road trip!!

[Philip Lochner]

Hi All

Just sharing that tomorrow morning I'm setting out on a 4000km road trip in South Africa with my '74 Mk3. Basically the trip will be as follows:
Pretoria - Bonnievale - George - Pretoria

This will be the first long trip with the new high compression engine, and again I'll be watching the fuel consumption carefully. Two friends are going with, one in a '03 XJR and the other in a '13 Range Rover (he was supposed to come in his '72 E-type, but I suspect he's been tempted by the comfort of the Rangie)

Will post pics when I can.

[colin7673]

Look forward to reading all about it. Have a safe trip..



OR you could document this trip and write for the club magazine.

[Philip Lochner]

Shame, you must be the editor of the club magazine...

Not sure what "document" entails, but I'll see if I can present you with something useable.

[Philip Lochner]

Day 1: 760km.520km on one tank. Fuel consumption calculated at 7.2km/L on the 1st tank.

I discovered today that I did not have parking lights. Wrong wire connected to the switch.

[Chris_R]

36 litres to cover 500km? That equals almost 40 miles per imperial gallon. Surely some mistake there?

[Philip Lochner]

No Chris,

70.86L for 516km

[jvcarrier]

Is that not 13.73L/100Km?

[Philip Lochner]

No Chris,

70.86L for 516km. 7.2km/l

[Chris_R]

I agree, 13.73l/100km = 20.6mpg (UK) = 17.1mpg (US)
Very respectable for a 7.2litre!

[Philip Lochner]

Sorry, not concentrating.

[RayR]

Sounds good, what speed? what sort of roads/traffic?

[Philip Lochner]

120 - 130km/h, open roads, aircon on, in 4th doing 2100rpm.

[RockyUSA]

This one has the 4L60E with the locking torque converter?

What computer are you running with that tranny setup?

Thanks -

Rocky

PS.. forgot to mention: “you are living the dream”

PSS.. While driving,do you continue to sing “we are marching to Pretoria, Pretoria, hurrah! “? I would be!

[RayR]

Pretty impressive Philip. Hope the rest of your road trip goes well.

[Philip Lochner]

Rocky, yes this one has the 4L60e. I'm using megasquirt gpio with MSEXTRA transcontrol software to control it. Torque converter locks up at 70km/h under light foot driving.

My song of choice is: "Oh what a beautiful moooooorning, oh what a beautiful day
I've got a wonderful feeeeeeling, everything is going my way