4.8 Fuel Consumption

That would make a lot of sense?????

Trading down from 180kW to 114.

Some of us actually like to to keep pace with other vehicles and are happy to pay a little extra for fuel.

His better option would be to fit LPG and get better power than diesel at half the cost.

Jim.

Best Off road,

Wrong!!! 4.2 diesel, 3 inch dump pipe and straight system, Variable pitch turbo, tweaked injector pump, Boost 14psi, Gas Injection. All up first mods gave me 40% and Gas gave me another 30%. Quite right 114kw standard. Therefore 114 x 40% = 159.6kw then this x 30% = 207.4kw. Now this is only the power. Then you have an unbelievable amount of torque with that as well. Trading down!! Don't think so!!!! Agreed if you have the car then change to gas but range out in the middle of no where and the availability of gas as I have just found is not every where.

Goona

Jim, We all know your passionate about gas. Its time you did a trip around and through oz fully loaded and towing. Some places dont have gas and most that do are expensive, over a dollar a litre. Get out and do it. Diesel is the only way to go. Im towing a 3 ton 23foot van with a fully loaded 100Td and averaging 17.5l to the hundred over 26000kms this trip and still going. Have never got to a place with no diesel but lots with no gas 0r very expensive gas. Your continued arguement is based on city driving only, which is infact a good one but for long term touring and towing its Diesel unquestioned. What you say just doesnt make sense.

Goona,
To start with your diesel cost 7-10 grand more to buy ( Can someone correct me here if need be please, I'm guessing) plus about 6 grand on mods, He's got 185 kw straight up. A lot of ULP can be bought for 11+ thousand dollars.
Also if you really think that your 4.2 is putting out those kw figures then you are sadly mistaken, put it on a dyno one day and expect a rude shock.

Pezza

Agree with you there Pezza, the mods alone add up to more than 3/4 of perthburts fuel bill for the big lap.

Yet to see any Diesel out perform my 4.8, although I haven't come up against a 200 yet..... now I reckon that would be interesting.

Would also like to see the dyno report on where you claim these figures Goona, Im assuming you haven't plucked them out of the air.

Pezza,

Please note the figure I have stated is fly wheel figures as all manufacturers state. The reason I stated % figures of increase are thus, Once you increase tyre diameters your power and torque goes down. I could easily go to any dyno and fit a set of 235 tyres and get an increase in power and torque. What is the use of this. Nothing but a piece of paper that is worthless stating I have had massive gains. Another reason why is the slip factor. I run aggressive mud tyres and these on a dyno do not grip all that well and the final figures are somewhat distorted therefore if you have slip at the start and the same slip at the end then the % increase is the best measure. I have personally witnessed a Commodore lose 80hp due to slip and this was with non aggressive tyres as you would have on a 4wd. After they strapped it down the power went up by 80hp and nothing else motor wise was touched. Did you also know that dyno figures can be distorted by changing the atmospheric pressures? This will also give you a false read out. What is the point. I can feel mine has gone up significantly. Yes I do have Dyno read outs when the work was performed and this is where as I have stated got my increases from and not from thin air. I was there while they were doing it and saw the before and after with no playing of the dyno. With regards to your comments on putting out these sort of figures, yes mine has had a bit of work but spare a thought if you were also running a massive intercooler, ceramic pistons and upping the boost to 25psi. This would blow mine to the weeds and figure way in excess of mine is easily capable of achieving in a 4.2.

Ingo,

Yes I have got dyno reports on my output but these are back in Brisbane and unfortunately I am in WA on a 7 month trip around Aust.

Goona

Thanks for that.

So sounds like it's a pretty reliable truck, they are serviced every 15,000? The semi auto box, any dramas or have you heard of them being unreliable?

Thanks for the above!

Vicar,
No problems with the box. heard a once that they tend to slip after towing heavy weights for long periods, but we didn't have any issues.

Cheers