Jobs done! Record summer.

[brucey]

Welp, for the past 4 months I had a job as a courier, driving as much as 550 miles a day. This really helped my 90 day average get up since it was almost exclusively highway miles.

But now it's back to my regular old job!

So 58% above EPA seems to be about my high end for my 90 day average. Since I will be stuck driving in extremely heavy traffic and only for a few miles at a time now. I do have a block heater in the garage waiting to be installed, and the brackets are getting done on my PHEV project. So here is hoping for 60%+ above EPA next summer.

[redyaris]

Nice work with the 58% above EPA, I'm only at 37% above EPA on my yaris. With respect to the underbody that fell off, have you put them back on again? I had a similar thing happen on my Aerostar van. In my case it was heavey wet snow that did the job.

[Zerohour]

Never surrender!

You have a Subi wagoon, why don't we drop in a nice electric motor and chain drive it to the rear axle?

Hehehe

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by brucey

So 58% above EPA seems to be about my high end for my 90 day average.

Well done

[brucey]

Haven't put the belly pans back on. I haven't noticed a difference with the belly pans being gone, honestly. I think this is due to how low my bumper is and they would show a difference if I had a stock height bumper. I only have the front 1/4" skid plate, and the smaller 3/16" ones on the transmission and differential. I only have noticed a 1.5 mpg per tank or less hit by installing my mirrors completely back to stock. It's nice parallel parking again.

Honestly, this tank isn't looking too bad. I loaned my scangauge out and it's been all city, but if I had to guess right now I'm around 25 mpg based on fuel gauge/miles. Which considering the traffic lately (students are back, the population roughly doubles) is good enough for me considering it's rated at 19 and I've seen 12 under similar conditions. It's also a weird feeling to go a week without filling up. When I had a job closer to home I put gas the car once every 2 months and now I'm used to doing it every 2 days.

[redyaris]

You might want to install side skirts made of some rubber belting to keep the air from getting back under the car. Then if you want to confuse your 'High Performance' friends you can install an under tray from the rear axle sloped upward back to the rear bumper with flairs going outward behind the rear wheels, and tell them that it is for ground affect for high speed cornering.