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idle to 4000rpm, GPX or GR is faster and fuel economy
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:38 pm
by mivecboy
As you can tell, I'm not that much of a revhead and I always change gear around 3-4000rpm. I'm currently looking to buy a GPX or GR, just wondering if GPX with mivec will be faster and better fuel economy than a GR before 4000rpm? or the difference is unnoticeable? any opinions?
Btw, I'm looking to buy an silver/black manual GPX for around $11,000 in Melbourne. Anyone?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:44 pm
by EURO
i wouldnt imagine there would be any difference......
gpx - with the mivec engine only engages the second set of cams over 5.500 revs..... therefore up to this point it should be exactly the same i would imagine.
Re: idle to 4000rpm, GPX or GR is faster and fuel economy
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:29 pm
by AJ
mivecboy wrote:Btw, I'm looking to buy an silver/black manual GPX for around $11,000 in Melbourne. Anyone?
Best of luck. Manual's are more expensive than tip's and rare. For $11,000 you'd probably get an old tip with about 200,000kms if your lucky. Check out the "cars for sale" section for a rough price guide.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:01 pm
by BuCkEt
11k is too cheap a budget for a looked after FTO unless you find a reeeal bargain.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:09 pm
by SchumieFan
BTW the GPX's burn 9.6L of fuel per 100KM
this link might help you out...
http://english.auto.vl.ru/catalog/mitsubishi/fto/
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:09 pm
by spetz
I would say that the GPX would have more power over the whole revrange.
I think the cams in the non MIVEC version would be somewhere in between the low rpm lobes and high rpm lobes in a MIVEC version.
And if the low cam of the MIVEC have less lift/duration that the cams of the non MIVEC then it would also be more fuel economical in that rev range