jvizzacc
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Does anyone know approximately what the oil consumption rate on an average SRX700? If the sled gets 10 mpg and the fuel/oil ration is 40:1 then you would go through 5 qts in 500 miles or 1 qt every hundred miles. I can't believe I'm burning that much oil! So what is the actual ratio (average).
Junior
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it's not a regular ratio man, the oil flow depends on throttle position and as such the oil ratio varies with riding style.
ride like gramps and it'll sip the oil (even by ratio tot he fuel), hammer it and the ratio will be much richer (by richer I mean oil:fuel rich, not fuel:air rich which would ofcourse be leaner since there's more oil displacing fuel, hope I didn't lose you there)
only way to find out what it is for your riding style is to measure.
40:1 on would be a qt/hundred miles true, which sounds lean in premix terms, but in injection terms, that's rich, since really you only need that kind of oil when you're WFO and for most people, most of there time is spent part throttle cruising (especially on an SRX since WFO for any prolonged length of time either means godlike riding skills or death)
off the top of the head I don't think 40:1 wfo and 80:1 at idle are unreasonable, but that's just estimations I have no proof to back that up.
ride like gramps and it'll sip the oil (even by ratio tot he fuel), hammer it and the ratio will be much richer (by richer I mean oil:fuel rich, not fuel:air rich which would ofcourse be leaner since there's more oil displacing fuel, hope I didn't lose you there)
only way to find out what it is for your riding style is to measure.
40:1 on would be a qt/hundred miles true, which sounds lean in premix terms, but in injection terms, that's rich, since really you only need that kind of oil when you're WFO and for most people, most of there time is spent part throttle cruising (especially on an SRX since WFO for any prolonged length of time either means godlike riding skills or death)
off the top of the head I don't think 40:1 wfo and 80:1 at idle are unreasonable, but that's just estimations I have no proof to back that up.