Mad Manny goes Fong Kong

**Mad Manny** · 2014/09/28, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by KurtG

Manny is at the Whoopa 2 event in Groblersdal. They haven't heard of cellphones in that place, he may only reply on Sunday evening when he is back in civilisation....

GroblersHOOP!

The JMC was in Honeydew, hopefull having the Canopy & Carrier fitted...

**pierre2013** · 2014/09/28, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Manny

GroblersHOOP!

The JMC was in Honeydew, hopefull having the Canopy & Carrier fitted...

Lekker aand Manny. Sal jou weer more karring.

**Mad Manny** · 2014/09/29, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Jaws.

With those prices I don't see them making it locally

Confirmed: Price of the Vigus dropping by R30k soon...

**Mad Manny** · 2014/09/29, 04:32 PM

Right! my Fong Kong, 1st tank, 344km on 34.53 liters.
That's as close as dammit to 10km/l or 10l/100km.

Vehicle only has 480km on, so the consumption may improve.
The 344km was done largely with no load, when loaded, it was only 300kgs odd.

BTW, checked the tyres, they all showed 1.6bar on the garage gauge, I pushed it up to 2.4, that may help too...

Of course, once the canopy & carrier, which weigh over 400kgs & offer wind resistance, are fitted, consumption usually increases by 20%...

**pierre2013** · 2014/09/29, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Manny

Right! my Fong Kong, 1st tank, 344km on 34.53 liters.
That's as close as dammit to 10km/l or 10l/100km.

Vehicle only has 480km on, so the consumption may improve.
The 344km was done largely with no load, when loaded, it was only 300kgs odd.

BTW, checked the tyres, they all showed 1.6bar on the garage gauge, I pushed it up to 2.4, that may help too...

Of course, once the canopy & carrier, which weigh over 400kgs & offer wind resistance, are fitted, consumption usually increases by 20%...

Let me get this straight....

It went for almost 500 km, and nothing fell off!!!!

I am without words here!!!

**pierre2013** · 2014/09/29, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Manny

Confirmed: Price of the Vigus dropping by R30k soon...

Still not enough..

**jordanza** · 2014/09/29, 04:51 PM

10L/100km seems fair! Doesn't a Canopy for most parts reduce drag?
I'm with Pierre, what's fallen off so far? or are we not privy to such info

**Mad Manny** · 2014/09/29, 04:58 PM

So I drop a pen in the cab & can't find it. I look under the passenger seat & find a fire extinguisher in a cradle!!!
I'm way impressed!, I pull it out (not like an extinguisher under the seat will ever be used).

**pierre2013** · 2014/09/29, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Manny

So I drop a pen in the cab & can't find it. I look under the passenger seat & find a fire extinguisher in a cradle!!!
I'm way impressed!, I pull it out (not like an extinguisher under the seat will ever be used).

Remember!!!

It is to put out the fire from the brakes!!!!!

**hunter26** · 2014/09/29, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Manny

So I drop a pen in the cab & can't find it. I look under the passenger seat & find a fire extinguisher in a cradle!!!
I'm way impressed!, I pull it out (not like an extinguisher under the seat will ever be used).

Manny, that is in fact Chinese Nitroxide. Hold nozzle out window pointing backwards, pull the pin,squeeze the trigger and you increase your vehicle speed from 80km/h to 82km/h.........will help you on the down hills.

**Fluffy** · 2014/09/29, 05:08 PM

From the pic it looks like the gauge is in the red.

They probably used it while it was in shipping.

Did you get a good discount on the vehicle?

**Mad Manny** · 2014/09/29, 05:32 PM

The gauge even shows it's OK (needle on green). But then I notice the date...

**sweeper** · 2014/09/29, 05:35 PM

Does that mean your fong kong is 4 yrs old? :-)

**Fluffy** · 2014/09/29, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Manny

The gauge even shows it's OK (needle on green). But then I notice the date...

It's a translation mistake, remember they read right to left. The little ladder with two big rungs is 10. The next ladder with four small rungs is 4.

10 +4 = 14.

**pierre2013** · 2014/09/29, 05:37 PM

Yaaa....... something else.... that thing will just make a puff of white rubish for about 4 seconds....

So you can only put out tge fire in one front wheel at a time...

In hind site... I should have just..... biting lip, sitting on hands...

**Mad Manny** · 2014/09/30, 01:00 PM

Interesting.
Most vehicles speedometers OVERread.
The Fong Kong UNDERreads.

At 120km/h on the GPS the Speedo shows around 115km/h.
At a 120km/h on the Speedo the GPS shows 127/128km/h.

Going to get worse when I replace the 215's with 245's in a few years.

The revs at a true 120km/h sit around 3400rpm - quiet high!

**ZombieGuy** · 2014/09/30, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Manny

Interesting.
Most vehicles speedometers OVERread.
The Fong Kong UNDERreads.

At 120km/h on the GPS the Speedo shows around 115km/h.
At a 120km/h on the Speedo the GPS shows 127/128km/h.

Going to get worse when I replace the 215's with 245's in a few years.

The revs at a true 120km/h sit around 3400rpm - quiet high!

Umm,thats kinda against the law I think,reason why all cars overread

**gualter** · 2014/09/30, 01:25 PM

That's high revs at 120 pa

You sure you're not missing a gear or something

**Mad Manny** · 2014/09/30, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by ZombieGuy

Umm,thats kinda against the law I think,reason why all cars overread

Agree. Have never seen a vehicle with standard wheels & tyres UNDERread...

**Nutsman** · 2014/09/30, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Manny

Interesting.
Most vehicles speedometers OVERread.
The Fong Kong UNDERreads.

At 120km/h on the GPS the Speedo shows around 115km/h.
At a 120km/h on the Speedo the GPS shows 127/128km/h.

Going to get worse when I replace the 215's with 245's in a few years.

The revs at a true 120km/h sit around 3400rpm - quiet high!

Silent high....interesting, they sell you some "footpowder" with the JMC?

My KB runs at 3300rpm @ true 120km/h - 4000rpm @ 140km/h GPS