Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Just a quick question. Whats the 2.6 early series 2 like in a swb? Is it a slug or does it push the paj along alright? What about fuel consumption?

ive got a 2.6ltr but its in a LWB. in my car it goes allright, but i know its never going to be a sports car nad i dont rev the tits off it i just drive it senseibly unitil ya get out bush.

the best fuel consumption ive ever got was 12.85lt /100km
-90lts of fuel and round 700km of driving

(that was with new oil,oil filter , air filter, and about 37psi in the tyres)

80% was higway driving with 2 mates and a semi loaded car
20% softish 4wding with some lowrange

with a swb you might be able to get better fuel consumption, just remember any car that is driven hard will use a fair bit off fuel and for 4wds this is 2 fold casue of the extra weight of the car.

hope this helps

i have a swb gen 1 with astron motor and although i havent had it long im impressed with performance. gets along quite well.

my inlaws have a gen 2 with astrn and it has good performance also.

imho they are a great four potter.

I've got the 2.6 SWB, I think it scoots along really well for what it is. Just had a straight through exhaust system fitted and replaced the old cracked manifold with some extractors. Goes Nice, looks good too! Something else to add to this, I came from driving a 300Hp rx7, then a 2.3 jackaroo.

The reason I ask is that in the NH swb's diesels seem to be non-exsistant or the present owners don't want to part with them. The next alternative is the 3l which I had in a NH lwb some yaers ago and loved BUT fuel then was like, 60c/l so fuel consumption wasn't an issue. So I have to chose between a 2.6 four or the 3l V6. I'm leaning towards a 3l.

I've got a 3.0l 5 speed NH shorty, and to be honest it's not to bad on fuel at all. I seem to average about 450-500k's on about 60l of fuel, mostly driving in stop start traffic to work and back every day. I'd imagine that a 2.6 in the same car would be fairly similar given that it's going to be moving the same amount of weight with slightly less power.

ferret
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:19 pm

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I've got a 3.0l 5 speed NH shorty, and to be honest it's not to bad on fuel at all. I seem to average about 450-500k's on about 60l of fuel, mostly driving in stop start traffic to work and back every day. I'd imagine that a 2.6 in the same car would be fairly similar given that it's going to be moving the same amount of weight with slightly less power.


I agree. My thinking is that a bigger engine doesn't work as hard to achieve the same output. The reason I still have reservations about a V6 is that the vehicle will be travelling at walking pace for 4 hours at a time in over 40 degree temps and I don't thonk a V6 could handle it, mind you my last two zooks stood up to it