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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 11:11 AM
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Fuel economy with PFC?

As of right now the motor side is stock and I am getting the worst fuel ever. I get about 180km to a tank at $77 to fill. ***** lasts me 2 or 3 days. I have a power FC that I just got and have yet to put in but am wondering how much better fuel I can get out of the car when I do switch it out. even if I have to get it tuned I am just curious what the car is capable of cause this is getting retarded hahaha
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 11:31 AM
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you should get about 400 miles to the tank
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 11:32 AM
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Wow, I would be looking for a problem. I am stock and at 150 miles I still have half a tank, I don't think the PFC is gonna solve the problem you are having.
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by allrotor93
you should get about 400 miles to the tank
Agreed. But also noting on how much of a lead foot the driver is.

When my FD was stock I used to get ~300 miles (495km) per tank... After I put in my PFC a full tank gave me ~400 (km) (660 km) that is roughly ~24 mpg (39.6 kpg). Now if I'm a lead foot and given that I have 1300's secondaries that mpg drops to like 12-15 . All I know is that I'm glad I didn't go 1600's oof
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 12:07 PM
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When I picked up my FD last year I drove it from Richmond VA to KC KS. I didn't know it at the time but the pfc was using an old basemap. Cruising across the states and enjoying some boost here and there through the mountains and curves I averaged 26 mpg the whole trip. Stock injectors, bosch 044 pump.
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 12:28 PM
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replace your O2 sensor. it's cheap
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 01:24 PM
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replace your O2 sensor. it's cheap
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back in the day, you could replace the stock ecu with the PFC, and the car ran better, but mpg i think didn't change
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 01:25 PM
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I wasted half a tank of gas (8 Gallon) in 15min before so dont worry.
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 01:36 PM
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I don't see the benefit to swapping in a Power FC on a completely stock car.
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Zatzy
As of right now the motor side is stock and I am getting the worst fuel ever. I get about 180km to a tank at $77 to fill. ***** lasts me 2 or 3 days. I have a power FC that I just got and have yet to put in but am wondering how much better fuel I can get out of the car when I do switch it out. even if I have to get it tuned I am just curious what the car is capable of cause this is getting retarded hahaha
180 km?
there must be sumthin wrong
check your injectors
fuel filter
unless your right foot is a lil to heavy
i have a rhd almost stock fd.. no pfc yet
and i get almost 400km on the tank
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 04:42 PM
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Well i have done the fuel filter, have changed the 02 sensor when I got the car. Have had it for almost 3 years and its been the same since the day I got the car. What else could be causing the problem? i picked up the 1680 secondaries but do not want to put them in with this already being an issue haha. I have tried to baby the car and most I have gotten out of a tank is 210km.
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Old Apr 12, 2011 | 09:35 AM
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Have you cleaned your injectors lately? Flow of the injectors could be crap and causing this as well. I would take them out and ship them off to injector rehab or something. It is fairly cheap, and then you know that your injectors are working as efficiantly as possible..
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