Hi Folks
I posted a few days ago about the increase in consumption of my Hilux 3 litre EFI. After running out the BD and filling up with petrodiesel then measuring distance and litres at the next top up, I can tell you that the consumption is slightly less than half that of BD. That is to say, I use about twice as much BD to go the same distance. Scary!
Yes, I know the rest of you get good enonomy with your cars running BD but I'm not sure there's anyone else running an EFI system. The neighbour starting doing BD at the same time I did and his mid 80's Landcruiser loves it.
I'm in the process of nutting out how an EFI system really works. My gut feeling is that there is some kind of feedback loop in the injector area that isn't being able to work properly thereby opening up the flow to max and therefore huge consumption.
If there's any automotive engineers amongst us that really understand this stuff then please speak up.
I've got a horrible feeling I may have unearthed a nasty limitation of BD. After spending more than a $1000 getting the plant together here as well as untold hours of labour, I'm more than a little disappointed that this is failing so badly!
I truly hope to come up with a solution for this. Until then, it's petrodiesel for me.
I posted a few days ago about the increase in consumption of my Hilux 3 litre EFI. After running out the BD and filling up with petrodiesel then measuring distance and litres at the next top up, I can tell you that the consumption is slightly less than half that of BD. That is to say, I use about twice as much BD to go the same distance. Scary!
Yes, I know the rest of you get good enonomy with your cars running BD but I'm not sure there's anyone else running an EFI system. The neighbour starting doing BD at the same time I did and his mid 80's Landcruiser loves it.
I'm in the process of nutting out how an EFI system really works. My gut feeling is that there is some kind of feedback loop in the injector area that isn't being able to work properly thereby opening up the flow to max and therefore huge consumption.
If there's any automotive engineers amongst us that really understand this stuff then please speak up.
I've got a horrible feeling I may have unearthed a nasty limitation of BD. After spending more than a $1000 getting the plant together here as well as untold hours of labour, I'm more than a little disappointed that this is failing so badly!
I truly hope to come up with a solution for this. Until then, it's petrodiesel for me.
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