After weeks of doubts and dread, I am beginning to enjoy driving the Fairlady. I enjoy driving the car, not for its speed, but for its acceleration. I feel exhilarated when the RPM meter leap from 2000 rpm to 4500 rpm with the exhaust screaming when I press the pedal and the zoom pass all the vehicles on my left. It's really fun.
After that scare on the overheating, I took the car for a trip down south - past KLIA - and onwards to Banting and Morib and back home again via the the Banting-Klang Highway and through the Kesas Highway to Subang Jaya. Iman was the navigator and companion. Throughout the trip, not once did the temp meter needle budge from its position of just slightly below the middle. During the journey which took about 6.5 hours, I made several stops - at the toll plaza before KLIA, at a kopitiam in Banting, and at Impian Hotel in Morib, adjacent to the Morib golf club.
By the time I parked the car in my condo, I had traversed a distance of about 170 kilometres. Prior to this, I checked the fuel consumption from since I last filled the tank on 26/10/2009 to the next fill on 23/12/2009. I had travelled a distance of 310 km and consumed 55.30 litres of RON 95 petrol. The fuel consumption was thus 15.8384 miles per gallon, which was a far cry from the expected 24 to 26 mpg.
Had the fuel evaporated, since most of the time I had left the car parked and my driving was confined to within 5 km radius of the condo. Or was someone stealing my petrol ? Bad thoughts ! Most probably, my filling points were wrong. I usually stopped filling when the automatic petrol nozzle cut off. The automatic petrol nozzle might be different from station to station and from nozzle to nozzle. But over a long period, I would get a good average on the fuel consumption. Another reason could be due to the engine left idling for a one hour test after the APD people had installed the 2 motor fans. Petrol was then consumed in zero distance.
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