Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Please play nicely.  No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....

Pages: [1] 2 3  All   Go Down

Author Topic: 750 litre fuel tank  (Read 3008 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

waspy

  • Guest
750 litre fuel tank
« on: 25 January 2008, 22:46:13 »
I was admiring a truckers Diesel tank the other day & i asked him what the cappacity was, yep 750 litres. I just worked out how many pennies that would take to fill at my local garage- £816.00, WHAAAAT.
I'll never moan about filling the Mig again  ::) ::) ::)
Logged

The Elite

  • Intermediate Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Herts
  • Posts: 463
  • Fuel duty still sucks...
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #1 on: 25 January 2008, 22:48:13 »
Filled up today after a week of comuting, £44! Well happy, used to put £52 a week in my A4 1.8T!
Logged
Mig 3 coming soon.... Watch this space!

waspy

  • Guest
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #2 on: 25 January 2008, 22:51:42 »
Quote
Filled up today after a week of comuting, £44! Well happy, used to put £52 a week in my A4 1.8T!

Nice one chap  :y :y
Allways good to have a car you like & it works out cheaper to run than the previous one  :) :)
So far i'm well pleased with my DTi.  :y :y
Logged

The Elite

  • Intermediate Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Herts
  • Posts: 463
  • Fuel duty still sucks...
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #3 on: 25 January 2008, 22:52:56 »
You can't go wrong with a mig!  :y
Logged
Mig 3 coming soon.... Watch this space!

waspy

  • Guest
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #4 on: 25 January 2008, 22:54:21 »
Quote
You can't go wrong with a mig!  :y
Logged

hotel21

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • The Kingdom of Fife
  • Posts: 13021
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #5 on: 25 January 2008, 23:00:20 »
Used to work on these things....



Roughly 35000 litres used per day to cover about 300 miles....

That works out at about 70 YARDS to the gallon at full sea speed....   :'(
Logged

waspy

  • Guest
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #6 on: 25 January 2008, 23:03:46 »
Quote
Used to work on these things....



Roughly 35000 litres used per day to cover about 300 miles....

That works out at about 70 YARDS to the gallon at full sea speed....   :'(

I saw a tv prog about these/this, i think was the massive machines series. Yes i was very impressed  :) :)
Aren't they Japanese or sumat :question
Logged

Kevin Wood

  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Alton, Hampshire
  • Posts: 36417
    • Jaguar XE 25t, Westfield
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #7 on: 25 January 2008, 23:04:17 »
It amazes me that they just look like scaled up car lumps. :o

Whereas I have a phone in the garage so Mrs.KW can phone me when I'm fiddling with engines, having one in the crankcase... 8-)

Kevin
Logged
Tech2 services currently available. See TheBoy's price list: http://theboy.omegaowners.com/

Entwood

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • North Wiltshire
  • Posts: 19566
  • My Old 3.2 V6 Elite (LPG)
    • Audi A6 Allroad 3.0 DTI
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #8 on: 25 January 2008, 23:07:04 »
Quote
Used to work on these things....



Roughly 35000 litres used per day to cover about 300 miles....

That works out at about 70 YARDS to the gallon at full sea speed....   :'(


  Yeah  ...  but how many HP and how many tonnes was it shifting .. I'll bet the power to weight ratio was fairly poor !!!

:)
Logged

The Elite

  • Intermediate Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Herts
  • Posts: 463
  • Fuel duty still sucks...
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #9 on: 25 January 2008, 23:13:51 »
Jeez! Now thats a motor!
Logged
Mig 3 coming soon.... Watch this space!

hotel21

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • The Kingdom of Fife
  • Posts: 13021
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #10 on: 25 January 2008, 23:14:34 »
Quote
Quote
Used to work on these things....



Roughly 35000 litres used per day to cover about 300 miles....

That works out at about 70 YARDS to the gallon at full sea speed....   :'(

I saw a tv prog about these/this, i think was the massive machines series. Yes i was very impressed  :) :)
Aren't they Japanese or sumat :question

Japanese?  Far from it.  Depends on where the ships are built.....

B & W - Burmeister and Wain, Sulzer and, if you fancy a real engineering challenge, the British opposed piston Doxfords.... http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Marine/doxford.htm
Logged

The Elite

  • Intermediate Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Herts
  • Posts: 463
  • Fuel duty still sucks...
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #11 on: 25 January 2008, 23:15:56 »
No wonder they call it an engine ROOM, huh?
Logged
Mig 3 coming soon.... Watch this space!

hotel21

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • The Kingdom of Fife
  • Posts: 13021
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #12 on: 25 January 2008, 23:18:41 »
Quote
Quote
Used to work on these things....



Roughly 35000 litres used per day to cover about 300 miles....

That works out at about 70 YARDS to the gallon at full sea speed....   :'(


  Yeah  ...  but how many HP and how many tonnes was it shifting .. I'll bet the power to weight ratio was fairly poor !!!

:)

Heres who I worked for.  Click the links to see the ship horsepower etc.....  These were really the small ships and not the international supertanker types that we often read about....

http://www.scottishshipmanagement.com/ships.html
Logged

CaptainZok

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Bolton
  • Posts: 8093
  • Victim of Cyberbullying.
    • 3.2 MV6 Estate
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #13 on: 25 January 2008, 23:19:46 »
Crikey how big are the fuel tanks then?
Logged
PM me for code reading/clearing
TuBy's new whipping boy.

hotel21

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • The Kingdom of Fife
  • Posts: 13021
    • View Profile
Re: 750 litre fuel tank
« Reply #14 on: 25 January 2008, 23:23:05 »
 ;D

BIG!

 ;D
Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3  All   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.021 seconds with 17 queries.