An idea for better mileage

[farkman]

Rammstein

I'll pump up all the tires to their 44 psi max. The Michelin Destiny's I got had the highest treadwear for a reasonable price. I paid $93, on sale, for the Destiny's compared to $140+ for the HydroEdge's.

I put in Amsoil S2000 75W90 gear oil back in April and I gained about 6% in mileage. You think I can gain another 2-4% by switching to an 80 weight gear oil. Some Canadian Tire stores sell Redline now so I'll check it out. I have no idea how tall fifth gear is. I think the transmission I have is the 02A but I'm not sure.  

Driving slower than 95km/h would probably piss off the drivers behind me :lol: . But if I do get a chance to drive slower than 95, I most certainly will. Windows are always up on the highway and I don't have AC. But if it begins to get warm, I open the sunroof a little bit.  

I started making aluminum covers for the two openings in the bottom left and right side of the bumper. I may also make a cover for the center opening which feeds the radiators. Of course, I will make some openings so some air can still flow past the radiator. I will also make some air scoops for the brakes which are smaller. At least the flex pipe that I bought on ebay finally got shipped out today, so It should be here early next week . Then I can finally finish the downpipe for my car.

[RAMMSTEIN]

Where did you get the Destiny?

Aren't they a brand of Michelins only sold by Canadian Tires?

Blacktietd, Passat TDI's have the same .756 fifth gear ration with a final drive of 3.156. :mrgreen:

[BlackTieTD]

doh!  :evil: one-upped!  :lol:

i'm happy with the gearing in my car, although i was thinking this morning on the way into work (the long way  :roll: ) that i wouldn't mind the gearing a little tighter through 2nd, 3rd and 4th... but strictly for accelation performance obviously.... and i already run out of gear right about when the turbo starts kicking real good so i would need to do some more mods to get more power lower in the rpm-range if i wanted tighter gearing...

[farkman]

Rammstein

You're correct, I did get the tires at Canadian Tire.

I checked my transmission and it says it's a CHD. I looked for the gear ratios but I found two different ratios. The first one says .769 fifth and a 3.94 final and the other one is .75 fifth and a 3.67 final. I think my car has the second set because I calculated it out and with that gearing my speed should be 97.9km/h@2400rpm. The other gear set says 89km/h@2400rpm. And my speedometer reads a bit over 95km/h when I'm at 2400 rpm. I've heard that VW speedo's usually read a little faster than the actual speed, but I think that difference was made up by installing tires which are 3.2% larger in circumference than stock.  

Yesterday I finished the two covers for the openings at the bottom of the bumper. I also made some smaller air scoops for the brakes.

Lanny, you get your welder yet?

Peter

[BlackTieTD]

Sure did Peter. Renovating my girlfriend's new house right now, eating up my time! (..but there are plans for a garage out back   )

[farkman]

Nice. A word of advice, try to build the absolute BIGGEST garage you can   . There's nothing like a lot of space, trust me  :lol: .

Peter

[BlackTieTD]

Problems with the city and permits... time will tell. 20'x22' is the plan right now....city wants to limit us to 10'x10'  :evil:

[farkman]

10' x 10'. That's a shed not a garage  :lol: ! My old house had a double garage which was sweet, but my new house has only a single garage. It's a PITA having to move one thing to use something else. I hope you can beat the system.

Peter

[Rat407]

Don't forget to have the alignment done. The least rolling resistance the better.

Now that we have sold our old house, it was on the market for over a year, I can build my garage. I'm looking at building a 26' x 36'  Hopefully it will be done by Dec.  My old garage at the old house that we just sold was 24' x 30'.  It was nice but the extra room would be much better.

[farkman]

Rat 407

I'll get an alignment done when I get my new suspension, hopefully it'll be soon. That garage should be sweet. It's about 4.5 times bigger than mine, I'm jealous  :lol: .

Lanny

If you think that you'll ever upgrade your welder or purchase some semi-serious equipment/machinery, then you should consider wiring in some 230V into the garage.  

By the way, I looked for Redline MTL at a few Canadian Tire stores here in Mississauga, but they don't sell it. All they have is motor oils :x .

Peter

[BlackTieTD]

Lanny

If you think that you'll ever upgrade your welder or purchase some semi-serious equipment/machinery, then you should consider wiring in some 230V into the garage.  

right with you there peter. we need 230v for the compressor out in the garage. just hope the city will let it all go through.. 10'x10' is a shed.

its sort of ridiculous.. the city is revamping the downtown (which i am 100% for, our downtown has taken a 180 turn for the better in the past 5 years) but they want the block of land the house is on, so they put a freeze on building additions, as they will increase properly value. the more they can stop people from improving their land, the less they will have to pay for it if/when they swoop in and take it  :?

there was a guy with a very succesful restaurant right on a corner of king street where they have just finished building our new market... he refused to sell, he didn't want to have to relocate (asian restauraunt right in the middle of the asian community). so he held out and eventually the city offered him enough $ that he accepted... its almost a year later and he can't get the city to grant him a permit to relocate since he caused them a hassle. something seems a little 'wrong' there...

[farkman]

The damn government always finds ways to screw the little guy.