Maiden voyage to work this morning.
Actually cruises along quite nicely. Acceleration is “leisurely” in 5th gear, but it is happy to maintain the speed limit without needing to drop back to 4th gear or even too much right foot.
Initial fuel consumption signs are good. Gauge is segmented into 20ths. It dropped less than one of these segments in 55km.
To get pseudo-scientific about it (by massively over-estimating the accuracy of a 24yo fuel gauge) the tank is 50 litres, so each segment is 5% or 2.5 litres.
Dropping 1 segment in 50km extrapolates to 5l/100km - I appear to be about 10% better than that, so 4.5l/100km.
Obviously, this needs to be verified with much more careful measurement over multiple tanks of fuel, but so far it is promising.
Oh, and it is getting a new 2” exhaust fitted today to shut it up. Keeping the 2.25” exhaust for the silver race car.
