Re: How long can an average car idle for on a tank of fuel? Re: WRX battery question.

"the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 14, 11:16 pm, Diesel Damo <Diesel_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> RainbowWarrior wrote:
>> > Hmm if the fuel tanks big enough it might idle for near a week.
>>
>> You pose an interesting question... one that I have often pondered.
>>
>> Just another reason why I wish I had some sort of readout that told me
>> how many millilitres per minute I'm burning. It'd be so easy to figure
>> out how to drive most economically from such a gauge.
>
> Wank factor. You know how to drive a diesel by feel.
>
> It would be difficult to gauge as the fuel is cycled from
> the tank and back in our 'luxen.
>
> I imagine you would need to take a difference from
> what is coming and going back to the tank.
>
> I'd love such a gadget though :-)

Or you just measure flow to each of the 4 injectors :)

I've heard of a mate who left a concrete truck idling all weekend because
he 
was last one out and did something wrong with the turbo timer :)
It was still idling on Monday apparently.