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This afternoon I filled my SVT with 58.12 litres of Sunoco 94. I'm sure I was about a eyedropper-full away from having to hitchhike for a gerry can (plus I forgot my phone at home). Has anyone put more than this in during a fill-up?

You've got me beat. The most I ever got was about 56L. The only reason I let it run that low was to see if what I had read was true....that I have a low fuel light. Sure enough it came on..its pretty useless considering the tank hold 60L. The light should be followed by a 10 second count down till car stalls.

What years are your cars? I've got a '99 SE and when the fuel light comes on I put in 40L, every time. Silly thing is I'm supposed to have a 57L tank right?

Mine's an early '98 SVT. I don't have the specs in front of me, but I think my fill-up exceeded the "official" capacity. I did, as usual, fill it past full to the top of the filler neck.

I've got a 98 GL. I'm 99% positive the tanks officially hold 60L but you can usually get more in. I always fill mine up to the point where the gas sits in the area where the cap screws into..takes me 20 minutes of pump click pump click...but I read that doing so can soak you emission canistor so I'm trying to quit.

Ahhhhh....the infamous Kramer test...hahaha

I run into this situation a week ago. The low fuel light went on, I drove another day letting the neddle fall completely to E and then drove another 40km or more before filling, them were nervous kilometres.

Don't suggest you try it just in case.

hey ABCarr, do you have your build # and build date for your SVT?

your statement about it being an "early version" has me wondering....

toadster_ca@hotmail.com

Thanks!

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I just checked and the specs that were on the brochure of my 98.5 sez it's got a capacity of 54.8 litres. You've got to remeber though that most gas stations have there fuel temperature-compensated to 15 degrees celsius. What that means is that you're getting your gas as if it's 15 degrees and not -5 or whatever it was when you pumped it. And because gas will contract when it cools (and expand when it warms) you did not REALLY pump that much fuel into your car. If you try running the tank close to dry in the summer heat, you'll never pump 58.12 litres. Just another way the gas companies are screwing us as I doubt we have more 15 & over days than we have 15 & under days.

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Black 98.5 SVT w/ KKM intake,73mm MAF, ASP pulley, SHO Shop Y-Pipe w/ no main cat

Let's see:

58.12 Litres, at about $400 dollars per litre here in Toronto...

youch...



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Toadster:

#963 of 6535
May 14, 1997