AJP Fuel Consumption
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leerdam23

Original Poster:

606 posts

290 months

Wednesday 5th March 2008
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Hi All...

Can anyone give me any idea of how much fuel I should be expecting to use in my AJP engined Tuscan round a track, for example Brands???


Thanks

Newbey...

sam.mnc

160 posts

240 months

Wednesday 5th March 2008
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I understand about 1 litre per min at full chat!!!! Lets hope fuel prices go down eh?

JonnyW

867 posts

271 months

Wednesday 5th March 2008
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My Cerb with a standard 4.5 was doing 1.25 a minute around Brands, ona nad off a lot with heavy braking and acceleration.

Consumed less at Snetterton for example, not much less!

leerdam23

Original Poster:

606 posts

290 months

Wednesday 5th March 2008
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1.25 ltr per min = 16.5 gal per hour seems a little low... for a race (30 mins) is that 38 ltrs? anyone??? 10 gals. need bigger tank!

hoc

147 posts

274 months

Wednesday 5th March 2008
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ive been told about 1.25l per minute if your trying, eh sam. tony [tuscan racer ajp v8 race engine]

Edited by hoc on Wednesday 5th March 22:54

GlynnsportRacing

306 posts

259 months

Thursday 6th March 2008
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Certainly with our AJP8 race engines we were getting a litre a minute (perhaps a little more but not as much as 1.25lt/min).

And yes, for 30 min races most full blown race Tuscans will run out of fuel and hence a lot of them have increased the size of their fuel cell and that's also why most races in the Tuscan Challenge are 20 mins max! Cheers,
Steve

teamHOLDENracing

5,105 posts

296 months

Thursday 6th March 2008
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From memory the standard Tuscan tank holds about 35 litres, but the last 5 litres or so are useless. Or put another way, the first 5 litres that go in the tank just bring the level up to the fuel pick up pipe.

I have a schedule somewhere at home with fuel consumption for different circuits - if I can find it I'll post them up.

darren no 7

558 posts

277 months

Thursday 6th March 2008
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i was useing 1.3l per min

teamHOLDENracing

5,105 posts

296 months

Thursday 6th March 2008
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That was 1 litre a minute to the engine plus 0.3 litres a minute out of the hole in his fuel tank.... hehe

TVRleigh_BBWR

6,553 posts

242 months

Thursday 6th March 2008
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Seeing as injection has a return to the tank/swirl pot how do you mesure how much you are using.

Thanks
Leigh

Graham

16,381 posts

313 months

Thursday 6th March 2008
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good old fashioned. meausure how much you put in and how much is left / does it take to top up..

G