Ulysses

Sneaked in a trip to Wales on Sunday. Dave kindly offered to put me up so went down on Saturday night (4hr drive with stops). Nearly ran out of fuel on the motorway. Turns out 145 miles per tank is all it manages

Sunday was up early and away with Dave & Alan to meet the rest of the group for a breakfast and very nice it was too. Brett made an unexpected appearance as well. Sadly Dave & Alan had panhard bracket problems after the second lane of the day and had to retire. The rest of us carried on topgear style :laugh:

A few pics and vids for everyone...

And the videos (apologies if your Welsh and hear me trying to pronounce place names!)

Moelfre 1


Moelfre 2


Moelfre 3


Pant Idda 1


Pant Idda 2


Glan Aled to Mynydd Y Gyrt


Dyffryn Aled


Foel farm


Segrwyd


Nantglyn 1


Nantglyn 2


Nantglyn 3


Nantglyn 4


Bryn Ocyn


Cae-gwyn to Maes Cadarn


Pen-y-maes


Bron Fari


Bryn Isaf farm


Nant


Gwernymynydd

Looks like a nice day for it. 145 miles to the tank, does it have a hole in the bottom?

Might as well have a hole in it Lambert. Some investigating needed as to why its so bad. From the fuel light coming on to it running on fumes was about 20 miles. Most of our group gets about 180ish miles to a tank in their modified machines, so 145 at motorway speeds isnt that bad really.

Cause is probably sticking brake caliper sliders and sheer weight. The cage, bumper and winch probably weigh 150-200 kilos so maybe a diet is in order :laugh:

Soon on the horizon will be the throttle body, ecu and exhaust jobs which might improve things (or at least thats what im telling myself!). And theres some new improved front wheel arch plastics from Keithy coming this week along with some MK1 LWB vitara front calipers & brackets to hopefully allow me to use the vented diesel Jimny discs ive had in the shed for ages. Plenty still to do on a project that was supposed to be done :laugh:

Bah! Yes, looked like a great day... shame I missed most of it

(I limped home after again ripping the front panhard to chassis mount off again)

Should not the additional performance of your extra 500 cc be compensating for the extra weight? Our gv is a minimum of half a tonne heavier than Dreadnaught but even with the 2.4 it's getting high 30s mpg on a run. I know it's not a direct comparison but having the big motor definitely helps hide the additional weight.