1.8 DOHC Vtec and above

eracer2006

eracer2006

eracer2006

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excluding the nsx and legend....... what are they like on mpg ?

everyone says they drink tons of fuel....but they dont say wether they rag them all the time ?

What are they like if you dont go into vtec ?

Is an lsd really needed ?

Im looking at dc2's and CTR's (EP3) though i quite fancy the EK9!!!
 
Like any car you can extract decent mileage by driving them gently. However, you need to be a model of self restraint and be happy with fairly pedestrian progress to do so.

I can get about 35-36mpg from my Civic without too much bother, and that's quite a bit heavier than the DC2. Driven how it's wants to be driven that can easily drop to the mid 20's.
 
I average at ~29-30 in my 2.2 Prelude.

Lowest I've got over the course of a tank is 26, which was mostly country-road driving, and most is 34, which was all motorways @ 60.
 
I got 330 miles from a tank yesterday, a tank costs £42.00. I personally dont think thats bad at all. I'm driving the 2.2Vtec in a Prelude and I'd disagree that to get good mpg you've got to drive it slow, even below Vtec levels these engines drive like your normal Mondeo or other bread'n'butter car.
 
I used to average 30mpg out of my civic without any problems, could go as high as the early 40's on a run, or as low as 10-12 on a hooning session.

It was certainly more fuel efficient than my S3, which will show single figure MPG's quite happily in town, my current average in that is about 26-27mpg, and I've only just finished running it in so I've been behaving.
 
I get around 300 miles to a tank of V-Power in my 2.2 (~29/30mpg). This is with predominantly city driving with the occasional motorway blast.
 
[TW]Fox said:
That tells us absolutely nothing. You could get that from a Ferrari Enzo if you had a big enough tank.
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I left tank size out because someone else had already mentioned the cost (£42 ish)
 
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I'm driving the 2.2Vtec in a Prelude and I'd disagree that to get good mpg you've got to drive it slow
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You have no-one to disagree with, I was talking about the 1.8 MB6 civic. Below 2500RPM mine wouldn't pull the skin of a rice pudding. In fact my old mans 216 Rover pulls considerably better at low RPM. Above that it's fine, and above 6k it's very fine, but guzzles fuel.

By slow, I didn't mean as in speed, I meant as in acceleration.
 
It defies any logic I can comprehend fully why anyone looking at a Type-R based Honda model would be concerned about MPG LOL. When you get it you will realise that using the performance is part of the fun.

Anyways, on my DC2 I used to get about £36 in the tank of super unleaded and get may 200 miles before time to fill up again. Bare in mind though that I find acceleration somewhat addictive and spent most of the time in VTEC where I could and on B-roads mainly doing point to point runs just for fun.
 
I get 200 to 270 miles in my EP3 from a full tank. I drive 60+ roads most of my way to work and stop little then do about 4 miles of town driving a day.

Its a bit of a step from my 1.4 but then again it doesn't cost more.

We did a very fast run of country roads for nearly 100 miles split into 4 stages with a few other CTRs and I used half a tank, which is brilliant seeing I was in VTEC most of those miles.

VTEC in the EP3 has been described as opening the window and throwing out a bag £1 coins, but to be honest it isn't that much of an issue. 27MPG is about the average owner gets.
 
I get about 18-19mpg out of my 2.2 Prelude, however that's because I only live 3 miles from work, so it's all done from cold.

From memory I used to get nearly 30mpg when cruising at 90. They aren't bad on fuel if you keep them at 50-80mph
 
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