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[willie@eco]

Well that sir... absolutely sucks haha. I wish i could see the posts... darn. Maybe email me some pics? Where are u located anyway? Im in detroit michigan lol

[cowmeat]

I'm about 1200 miles south of you, in central Florida.

Now that I think about it, I've still got a Festiva sitting in my driveway (my son's), but Black Widow is long gone. I'm thinking of buy my kid's Festiva and using it to pull my lawn service trailer.

You should add your Festiva to Team Festiva in the challenge! Team Festiva was up to the #6 position at one point when I had Black Widow registered.

[willie@eco]

Really? And how do i go about doing that? And come to think of it i think ive read some of ur post on here b4. I haven't been on here much tho. Kinda getting in the game now lol

[DS98HX]

Entering lean burn under 60 mph gets me worse mph than entering and staying in and stayinf above 70 mph.

[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by DS98HX

Entering lean burn under 60 mph gets me worse mph than entering and staying in and stayinf above 70 mph.

I also get worse mph when going slow, regardless of lean burn.
At 100 mph I get no less than 100 mph. At 50 mph I get just 50 mph. I usually do about 55 mph (@55 mph) on the highway though.
As I like to be in my car I don't mind too much, and it is good for economy

On a serious note, it takes a long time to get good at judging fuel consumption by speed.
A strong side wind and a wet road increase fuel consumption more than a 10 mph speed increase.
But generally anything above 50 mph decreases fuel efficiency, as air resistance is then the largest force and it quadruples with speed.

I get best economy at 35 mph. I usually go faster than that for practical reasons.

[cowmeat]

And how do i go about doing that? And come to think of it i think ive read some of ur post on here b4. I haven't been on here much tho. Kinda getting in the game now lol

To enter your car in the team competition just click the link below and add your car. The link is straight to Team Festiva

EcoModder Team Competition

Then start tracking your mpg in the garage by using the fuel log. You just add the miles you drove on the tank and the gallons it took to fill up and it logs it onto a graph so you can see how you're progressing. It will automatically update it in the team competition. This gives you a little motivation to keep doing better each tank

Yeah, I have threads for both of my former Insights and my current Volt on here. I try to document the good, the bad and the ugly so people with the same car or somebody interested in that model can benefit by hearing about someone else's experiences with it

[willie@eco]

Absolutely! Will do asap. Also, Happy New Year to all of you ecomodders on here!

[jcp123]

Well! Just ran my first tank through my Civic. It's gloriously stock and I wasn't really pushing the hypermiling either, and got 43.7. This should be a good sign...

[willie@eco]

Originally Posted by jcp123

Well! Just ran my first tank through my Civic. It's gloriously stock and I wasn't really pushing the hypermiling either, and got 43.7. This should be a good sign...

Thats good! How many miles did it have when u refueled? Also, was it all hwy? Some hwy? Some city or all city? Any stop and ho traffic?

[jcp123]

Originally Posted by willie@eco

Thats good! How many miles did it have when u refueled? Also, was it all hwy? Some hwy? Some city or all city? Any stop and ho traffic?

There's some asterisks in there...I'd had my wallet stolen so I had a couple of partial fills at different stations, so there's some pump error in the mix. But that's over 743 miles. Pretty much all highway, as my commute is 100 miles all freeway, prk for three weeks while I'm out in the big rig, then drive the 100 miles back home.

Thinking about seeking some alternate routes as this car seems to perform especially well at middle speeds.