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digital fuel reader

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digital fuel reader

Post by islandvitara »

i thought of this while i was at work - noticed that this mitsu 380 had a digital fuel reader in the dash.....got me thinking what if i could have one in my sierra??? my sierra came with a longrange tank not sure how big but its definitly longrange - tiz huge!!!

so i was wondering if it would be possible to fit a digital fuel reader somewhere on the dash so that i could have a fairly accurate reading of how many litres or how many k's till its empty.



i think its a cool idea if anyone else hasnt done it?? if ya have then thats even better!!!! :armsup:

what do yas think??


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Post by da13ro »

So im a noob when it comes to zooks, but, going of my sierra its the sender that is currently the bottle neck. So would say chances are that would be where the business is at. Dunno, but jaycar might sell a digital fuel sender kit? If I wasnt in the middle of exams at the moment i would fab you a LCD readout that would interpret what ever senders dish out, votlages, pvm's etc...

Telling you how many km's you have left in your take would probably have to be given as a nice rough guess on your average fuel econ, 10l/100 or whatever... Modern cars do some funky calculations on what the car is doing at the time, how hard your driving etc... wouldnt be able todo that i dont think...

My input, no help as always!
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Post by want33s »

Full tank = 300km to go.
Half tank = 150km to go.
Empty tank = walking.
Sierra's are what they are because they DON'T have all that sort of crap.
The less there is, the less can break. :armsup:
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Post by islandvitara »

want33s wrote:Full tank = 300km to go.
Half tank = 150km to go.
Empty tank = walking.
Sierra's are what they are because they DON'T have all that sort of crap.
The less there is, the less can break. :armsup:
Jas.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: hahahaah nah just something that reads how many litres in the tank - would be nifty on keepin check of fuel levels i guess :armsup:
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Post by david123 »

want33s wrote:Full tank = 300km to go.
Half tank = 150km to go.
Empty tank = walking.
Sierra's are what they are because they DON'T have all that sort of crap.
The less there is, the less can break. :armsup:
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Post by PCRman »

http://www.scangauge.com/products/

Of couse you would have to upgrade to an OBDII spec rig :D

Or a rally computer
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Post by Moph »

99% of Sierra's have a fuel gauge that works perfectly...




... it's called the trip meter :)

I know that if I don't fill up at 350km's, I'm walking.
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Post by david123 »

Moph wrote:99% of Sierra's have a fuel gauge that works perfectly...




... it's called the trip meter :)

I know that if I don't fill up at 350km's, I'm walking.
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Post by GRPABT1 »

Moph wrote:99% of Sierra's have a fuel gauge that works perfectly...




... it's called the trip meter :)

I know that if I don't fill up at 350km's, I'm walking.
Your wrong cause 75% of zooks run oversized tyres and hence the odo is incorrect ;)
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Post by Moph »

GRPABT1 wrote:Your wrong cause 75% of zooks run oversized tyres and hence the odo is incorrect ;)
Yup, but my point being that you'll only need to run out of fuel once to know what your corrected or uncorrected (it matters not) odo reading is at empty :)

Mine is extremely consistent - it gets around 12L/100km no matter what I'm doing with it, country or city. Would allow a bit of leeway if I was wheeling for more than a coupla hours though.
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