Quote Originally Posted by sports racer View Post
That must be a massive leak. My Aussie spec MK2 GTI (90hp) was getting between 5.9 and 6.3 litres per 100 k on the open road with a little bit of town driving. Best I got out of a tank was 830 ks and I could have got more but where I live it's 50 ks between petrol stations and I didn't want to try for 880 ks.
yeah seems it
Going to my hand on rebuilding a solex carb, ive found replacement bushes for the throttle shaft which should fix 95% of any leak ect.. which is great. i dunno yet. leak cant be massive, cause i can spray wd40 around the area and the revs dont change.