Fuel economy get better with more km's? Is it true?

[disappointed]

on the 1.8 ltr engine as fitted to the current model civic VTEC is on up to 3200rpm....only under light throttle and low engine load as determined by the computer. under these conditions it is working as a 12 valve engine. If certain low load or high throttle openings that the computer recognises VTEC is off and
the engine reverts to normal mode. If you go to the tov website u can read about it there

WTF.. Buddah51au, please explain, more in depth please.

[buddah51au]

WTF.. Buddah51au, please explain, more in depth please.

If you wish to read about it in full go to the Temple of VTEC website, all the information is there

[buddah51au]

WTF.. Buddah51au, please explain, more in depth please.

Here is the article.........http://asia.vtec.net/Engines/RiVTEC/index.html

[ahmondjai]

I was just looking at that the other day, thanks for the info on fuel economy with the economic cam lobe, I tried that method, keeping the load of the car as light as possible, as light pedal as possible, but fuel consumtion didn't improved significant enough, possible reason might because of the car isn't fully run in yet, it's still under 4000kms. But I've got another question, might be off topic, does the new engine has a vtec range(such as from 4000 rpm onward)? or the i-vtec means a new engine technology relating to fuel economy other than performance(fuel saving mode and normal 4 cyclinder engine)

[disappointed]

Here is the article.........http://asia.vtec.net/Engines/RiVTEC/index.html

Good one Thanx

[buddah51au]

Good one Thanx

that is an old article that has been around for a couple of yrs. If economy is important u need to understand how to achieve it.

[sam.]

we have an auto fd1 and run e10 and i don't think we're getting the claimed7/8L per 100k's!

[cracker]

i asked this already...apparantly e10 is shit in every aspect

[buddah51au]

we have an auto fd1 and run e10 and i don't think we're getting the claimed7/8L per 100k's!

Independant tests carried out on E10 indicate an approximate 10% increase in fuel consumption along with an approximate 10% decrease in power

[nuffsaid]

Damn still getting 9.8L after 2000km.

Maybe he Civic FD just does real poor in bumper to bumper city driving.

This is worse than the EK that we had, with a smaller tank. Yes it was 1.6L, but this is a brand new car with supposedly better technology for better economy.

[warwick108]

keep your revs low mate.. and when the car is rolling.. let it roll.. instead of keeping your foot on the accelerate pedal and putting the revs at 3000. I have a fd1 auto aswell.. when I drive normally I get around 9.8.. but when I really wanna squeeze out every km.. I keep the revs low.. and accelerate like a granny.. =)

[buddah51au]

Damn still getting 9.8L after 2000km.

Maybe he Civic FD just does real poor in bumper to bumper city driving.

This is worse than the EK that we had, with a smaller tank. Yes it was 1.6L, but this is a brand new car with supposedly better technology for better economy.

Here in Australia Honda only advertise a combined average fuel consumption figure - eg. 6.9 - 7.2 for manual & auto. if you check on the Honda UK web site you will find they advertise city and country fuel consumption figures. According to their advertised figures of 8.4 and 5.2 for city and highway your not that far off the mark. As i average 6.8 L/100km for country driving 1.6 above the advertised figure, and your getting 1.4 above their advertised figure for city driving it puts us both in the same ball park.

Personally, i cant give any long term figure for city driving having only ever used 1 tank (not enough to give a proper result) from Gosford to sydney and commuting pennant hills rd for a week returning 7.19L/100. i just don't believe
it is possible to get an fair result on 1 tank only.

For those interested i have kept a comprehensive log book on fuel useage since i got my civic, the results to date are 40,927kms - 2786.24 liters giving an all up average of 6.808L/100km. worst 7.6L/100 - best 5.8L/100.