Re: VR6 eat fuel?

["Mark Radelow" <rpcprod@hotmail.com>]

The VR6, although a great engine, is not the cutting edge of combustion.  
Being a 2-valve design the engine is not as efficient as say that of 4 
or 5 valve design (there are benefits however, torque etc. etc.).  This 
combined with a relatively small gas tank means that yes, you will be 
tanking up more.  I have had the engine at 28mpg on the freeway driving 
flat and level at 65 with no windows opens and no ac on.  But don't 
expect to get stuff like this.  The engine just likes gas.  Look for 
about 270-300 miles per tank.

Mark Radelow
VW Jetta Homepage
jetta.aosi.net

>Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 10:46:21 -0700
>To: post <gti-vr6@dev.tivoli.com>
>From: Gary Shu Kei Fung <gfung@sfu.ca>
>Subject: VR6 eat fuel?
>
>Hi all,
>
>           I have my VR6 for a few months now, and found that this 
machine
>"eat" gas pretty quickly. I was just filling up my gas tank last night 
then
>ran few kms - 10 kms , and once I got back home, I found the fuel
>indicator's needle has drop(or moved) quite significantly.  Is this 
normal
>to all vr6 cars? or is there somethiung wrong with my car?(like the 
spark
>plus...) But then I thought it wouldn't be the plugs at all because my 
car
>is brand new...  I had the 4 cyl. GTI before, so I noticed this fuel
>consumption differs a whole lot. any comments on this would be 
appreciated.
>
>Gary
>97 GTI-VR6
>
>


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