This interests me greatly...Stagea fuel economy is not as bad as people make out. Ours dropped from 14l+ per 100km into the 10-11l per 100km sort of range with just an O2 sensor and coolant sensor swap, AAC clean and AFM clean. In regard to costs I'm mostly suggesting a $10k one would be a much cheaper proposition to own and maintain than a neglected $7.5k one.
No. Fucking. Way.Ziggy, I blame you....
I'm getting ~300km out of a 50L (45L?) tank in my '96 Legacy GT-B. Now until reading that post I was convinced there was something wrong with the engine that the mechanics had overlooked last service (3 weeks ago), but now it seems more normal. Another mate was getting 300km around town on his 2000 B4, but I also assumed that was because he was running really rich (single turbo conversion mod et. al.).
What sort of costs do you think I would be looking at for something similiar to what you did? Do you think I'd be likely to see similiar changes?
That's not great economy, especially if you're driving conservatively.~snip~
60L ay? Seems my read out could be wrong too in that case, the dial was almost as low as it could go and when I filled up it came to 44L.The gen2 tank is 60L, fuel light should come on at the 9L mark. Thats pretty shitty economy, worse with NZ fuel prices!
A guy I went to school with has a 95 GT auto wagon & he's getting ~450km around town. You'd think you could do better with the manual.
Apparently, it was done when I bought the car.Was the mechanic's look over an actual service?
Will hopefully do that this weekend. I've put up a post on the Kiwi Subaru forums asking for the name of a decent mechanic locally, so with a bit of luck I'll get the full story about what's going on before too long. Just got to save a bit more $$.Fresh oil and and running some upper engine cleaner through does wonders also. Better intake/exhaust can yield some improvements too I believe.
No idea sorry, my GT-B engine knowledge ends after EJ20 and the valley of death.MattyDV, whats in it? do they have multiple cats and all that stuff? If they were blocked/collapsed at all it would hurt fuel consumption.
Hmm ok. Would an O2 sensor likely be something that I could bribe a local forum member to help me change with a case of beer? Being a student and all...Most jap imports need the O2/s done, regardless of the car. Hotwire AFMs do get grubby and read oddly leading to fuelling inaccuracy. End of the day best practice is to make sure all the essential sensors are operating as they should. Often the best way to do that is to replace as many as you can with new ones. Probably going to be $1k plus all inc labour etc if it has two O2s to swap.
Ok, cool. Interesting daily driver but I reckon he wouldn't get much/any attention in it. 4 door - got two golfs?Fear not Mark, this one's for dad. Something of a daily drive while he works on the 4 door. Also picked up a 16v 1.8 for a steal so we're still flipping up what to do with everything.
Nothing much wrong with it, only rust is under the passenger side floor and the seller included a replacement section. He also threw in what seemed to be half a car worth of parts, mostly little bolts, plastic bits and random trim pieces that would otherwise be a pain to source individually. So there's plenty of parts for the 4 door.
They're so cheap in NZ though (dont know why, import laws?), 10k for a bottom of the barrel one here.I reckon if you look around you could find a decent Subie at a low enough price. I got my '96 GTB for $2k with 150k on the clock and only minor issues.
Ask PlowIs the go forever Subaru reputation to be trusted?