87 octane. im surprised they still sell that around the world. The least i run my car on is 95 at the moment. 91 just doent make the car feel right

Quote: My calculator says that there are 3.7854 litres to a US gallon, so $2.959 per gallon becomes $0.78 US/ litre.

My currency converter tells me that this becomes $1.03 Au/ litre & these days, that's a bargain in anyones language.
If one is driving a Datsun 1200, then compared to just about anyone in other countries, that has gotta equate to some seriously economical motoring.

I remember when i first got my licence in 1995, i was filling the datsun 1200 up on 54c a litre. What i'd give for those prices again! Id actually fill the tank up without looking at the cost!!

10 years and 200% inflation. Whats the next 10 years going to be like? By these figures, we will be paying $4.50 a litre by 2015.

$1.09 here in Lethbridge,AB Canada
So that means I gotta get my 1200 and my motorbike on the road

A-series engines run great on 87 octane (R+M/2) rated fuel. That's the octane they were designed for back in 1970.

Next time you fill up in Aus, note what the rating type is, does it say on the side of the pump? It is RON to MOTOR rating? In USA it is the average of both (R+M/2).

For example: 92 RON is similar to 87 R+M/2.

hey, ill be driving my datsun in a wile, its my first car and has an original engine in it thats been fixed up. i was jsut wondering how fuel efficient it is and how much you can generally get out of a full tank. thnx

Hi Todd, it depends on which Datsun you have ... a factory stock 1200 got about 38mpg highway, for about 380 miles per tank. See the Tech Section "Performance" article which quotes several sources and magazine article tests of fuel economy. I'll leave it to somebody else to figure out what that is in kms/liter.

The only solution is to get off petrol and go onto gas. Gas still is 45 cents locally for me and shouldnt hit 70 cents until 2011-15.
Beyond that CNG (car no go) with a serious turbo. Otherwise you have to get a diesel and run your own bio-diesel which means spending 1 day a week producing it, so no thanks and diesel engines (except the audi le mans car) are as thrilling as a citroen 2cv.

We need the Russian engine develped in secret by Joseph Papps (he himself was hungarian militant in the past when he came into possession of Russian secret technology) which he took to his grave with him due to severe paranoia and maybe a mental condition never diagnosed (like many ingenious people in the past and present). He didnt trust a soul, made his millions from investors, revealed the mechanical design of it but never the noble gas mix which ran it and only he new till he contracted cancer and kicked the bucket.
Papps engine (a modified sealed volvo engine) on a dyno in front of investors, engineers and others made 10 times the torque and power of a normal engine.
The sealed gas mix in the bores expanded and contracted with a series of ignition pulses and needed no fuel to run beyond the special gas filled cylinders. Also produced no emissions.
There are several companies and government agencies trying to find the noble gas mix he used but have been unsuccessful yet.
One of his investors pulled the leads of the engine against Papps wishes during a demonstration and it ran on by itself. As Papps fought with the investor to put back the leads( due to the nature of the engine which only Papps knew how it worked) the investor refused Papps tried to turn the engine off but it exploded shooting a rod or something at someone standing by.

After reading and seen all the videos of his engine and life, you can see that Papps definately had something worth billions (he new that too obviously) he kept the noble gas mix secret so he obviously wouldnt disappear from the face of the earth as other have in the past, he went crazy a few times, trusted no one and now the world still pays politician wages they dont deserve for going A - B.

http://agabatti.blogspot.com/2006/03/joseph-papps-noble-gas-engine.html

BTW

DD i was watching a current affairs program the other night and i believe that tax on fuel here was just under 50% and tax on fuel in the states was 15%.
However profit margins made by retailers was smaller in the states. Something like 10 to 11 cents per litre here and around 4 to 5 cents per litre for you guys. However these figures could be in AU$ and US$ respectively.

Also I've heard that in Australia we get good clean fuel and that the States has somewhat inferior fuel. How true this is can only be measured in the pump.
And we too do produce our own petrol, plenty of liquid gold across the bass straight, however like the US we do have to rely on imports to support our demand.

Henry

Just got back form the gas station put 8.67 gallons or 32.77 litres in and cost me 27.00 DAMN I say. The price was 3.07 gallon or .81 cents a litre.