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Old 02-12-2017, 03:33 PM   #81 (permalink)
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I just watched the video, it's really clean! If the AC compressor is seized up, and on it's own separate belt, consider taking the belt off if it's still free spinning. Make sure the tires are pumped up and hopefully your next few trips are in the 30's not the 20's! we'll have to wait and see

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Old 02-12-2017, 04:05 PM   #82 (permalink)
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I just watched the video, it's really clean! If the AC compressor is seized up, and on it's own separate belt, consider taking the belt off if it's still free spinning. Make sure the tires are pumped up and hopefully your next few trips are in the 30's not the 20's! we'll have to wait and see
Right. Oh and the ac compressor isnt ran by the belt as the belt isnt there. I was going to remove the ac compressor today but i dont want crap going up the lines as ill have the ac system repaired for summer. Its unbearable in this thing if its 90 and humid and then a thunderstorm so now windows have to go up and every glass fogs up and im sweating bullets and nooo. No way not doing that again this year haha
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Old 02-12-2017, 05:28 PM   #83 (permalink)
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Since the civic CX's are so expensive buy a CX trans and swap it. I have a 91 civic dx and a cx trans sitting in storage ready to be restored.
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Old 02-12-2017, 05:33 PM   #84 (permalink)
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Since the civic CX's are so expensive buy a CX trans and swap it. I have a 91 civic dx and a cx trans sitting in storage ready to be restored.
To be honest, if the civic doesnt have a lean burn vtec-e engine that long geared trans sucks. I had a 92 EG sedan with the d15b7 and a cx/vx trans and in city driving sucked. And i got low mpgs. The best i got in city was 22. But the hwy mpg was awesome. My best on the hwy was 43 mpg. But i dont do much hwy driving. So thats why i sold my EG sedan. It was nice too, had a full original "type r wine" burgandy interior hehe.
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Old 02-18-2017, 10:17 PM   #85 (permalink)
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It was. It was called the Mazda 121 pretty much every where in the world except south korea where it was sold as a Kia Pride and here in the states as the Ford Festiva iirc. Also i think it was changed from 121 to Festiva in Australia after a few years of production. And yeah man i might keep it. Lets see. Haha
The Mazda was built in Japan and was a good little car, the Festiva was built by Kia in Korea and just wasn't.

Quite a few Mazdas were sold here as Fords, and the Ford versions were always a lot worse to drive IMO than the Mazdas. Mazda somehow manages to inject a bit of fun into all their cars, while Ford seemed to concentrate on making everything feel like it was made of wood. Steering, clutches, brakes, suspension tune and gearshifts all felt worse on the Fords, why the didn't just use the Japanese specs is beyond me.
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Mine feels like it was built by Mazda then hehe. But it clearly has a sticker on the firewall that says made in korea lol.
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Then engine is actually Mazda but the rest of the car is KIA
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So a small update, im between the 1/4 and 1/2 tank and i have driven 251.7 miles. I consider this good, great even because my record was 263 miles driven and the gas gauge was past the E. So i should hit 300 miles for this tank very easily. Now 80 of those mikes where hwy. Bottom grill block was removed, timing set correctly, vac gauge installed and it seems to have helped improved my mpg figures. Will update once i fill up again.
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Old 03-22-2017, 04:39 PM   #89 (permalink)
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Our 2015 Ford C Max Energi is now up to 67 mpg e with 71% EV driving. As of this morning 314.5 miles on 2.6 gallons, and 67.65 KWH from the wall. This translates to 2.06 gallons e plus the 2.6 gals of gas equals 4.66 gallons equivilant. Of the 223.8 EV we are averaging 108 mpg e and for the 90.7 ICE miles 34.87 mpg. These numbers show the efficiency of electric drive without question.
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Our 2015 Ford C Max Energi is now up to 67 mpg e with 71% EV driving. As of this morning 314.5 miles on 2.6 gallons, and 67.65 KWH from the wall. This translates to 2.06 gallons e plus the 2.6 gals of gas equals 4.66 gallons equivilant. Of the 223.8 EV we are averaging 108 mpg e and for the 90.7 ICE miles 34.87 mpg. These numbers show the efficiency of electric drive without question.
Nice! My wife like those lol. I kinda see why too. Nice looking cars. Well an update. The festiva sold a couple of weeks ago. Sold it to a guy who had been wanting it for a while and he made me an offer i couldn't refuse. Searched for vx or hx civics, none where to my liking, searched for a prius, looked at 9 of them and gave up because they where falsy advertised. Cars where wrecked b4 and i wasnt gonna fork over 5 grand in a previously wrecked car. So after searvhing and nothing i bought an 04 Civic EX sedan with all the bells and whistles. Drove all week in it and got 26 mpg and its automatic. Not manual. Mixed driving got me 26 mpg and i tbink thats great to be honest. Didnt baby the car, drove it like i stole it and got 26 mpg out of a sedan that is automatic lol. Im happy. But i want MOAR lol so i bought a scangauge 2 and other mods are on the way.

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