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Preping Series 2A for Summer....Help.

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Rich_P:
I suspect he's got a petrol for being afraid of doing any decent distances in it.  :lol:

Robbiellewellyn:
Yup you'd be correct. Its a 2.25 petrol. Thats the kind of thing im looking for. Something to reduce the fuel consumption as well as making it easier to cruise longer distances. So how much does one of these over drives cost? Is it a simple bolt on job? how would you use it when your actually driving? I like to cruise at around 50/60 max but it drinks fuel so would one of these help?
Cheers,
Rob

Rich_P:
An overdrive won't really decrease fuel consumption.  20mpg is the best you can possibly hope to achieve out of one of these engines.

To use the overdrive, you simply depress the clutch, push the lever into the engaged position and release the clutch like you normally would in a gear shift.  It's the reverse of engagement to disengage.

Devon-Rover:
well as a guide an good overdrive seems to be around the 250 pound mark ATM.

As for fuel economy. i'd expect most to better what i got last year.

on 235/70R16 mud tyres. Roof rack, Crusing on the motoway at 50 / 55. on a worn engine, that used a 4 litres of oil over 300 miles.
I returned an average 21 mpg on a run.

now having rebuilt the engine, Set the timing, and removed the roof rack i'm expecting better results.
So those series owners should be up around that mark as well. The only mod to the engine was a K&N filter.

I too have an OD and it is a very usefull.

I'm hoping to get a ACR free flow rear exhaust section in a bid to improve the gass flow which should aid the running. I know of one fitted to a petrol and the results are positive.

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