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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
You don't want air to pass through your rear bumper, but around it. Build a belly pan to prevent the rear bumper from acting as a parachute, like this:
Air passing through a cutout or "speed holes" creates a lot of turbulence, which creates drag.
Thanks for the info. I'll look into it. But perhaps I should start from simpler things like grille blocks and air-dams. I've got my number plate grille block done today. Maybe I'll show it to you soon.
So someone scratched my car. Seems purposely scratched witha a key or a nail or something. Should I think of getting an alarm? Would it help at all? Or am I just a bystander in this situation?
And it's time for the pics. These were taken before the scratch though you wouldn't see it here anyway.
Looks a lot like my black 1998 Civic coupe. Someone hit it with their door a few months ago in a parking lot. I was bummed. But the car is OLD, and it is a grizzled warrior. Another scratch is a distinction line. (And it ain't worth a dime anyway.)
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
I guess you gotta have a kind of rat-style attitude if you don't wanna go mad. I think I'm developing it. It's more about how functional your car is than how pretty it looks. We've resprayed part of the car but the seams show. I think I might respray the whole car in the future but that's not anytime soon.
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I haven't updated this in a while and just so it doesn't get completely forgotten - a little update.
I've been doing some weight reduction. Mostly interior parts. What I like about it is the reduced rattles. Of course it introduces more road, wheel, and exhaust noise. But I like the trade-off. Especially the exhaust noise as I have no stereo to listen to. I feel more in tune with the car. One of these days I'll get to showing you the interior.
So according to my calculations I get 6.557971 l/100km. Which is good in my book because the last owner got ~8 l/100km. Hope to improve this modest figure further!
So according to my calculations I get 6.557971 l/100km. Which is good in my book because the last owner got ~8 l/100km. Hope to improve this modest figure further!
Yes, you can absolutely get it under 5L/100km, and under 4L is not out of reach at all. I am down to about 3.8L/100km nearly all the time, ajd have gotten as low as 3.35L ... or about 70mpg (US).
Let's see more pictures!
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
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