Nissan Versa Base 1.6

[skyl4rk]

If you want a laugh, check out this thread:

Aeromods!: Versa Exterior Forum: Versa - NICOclub

there will be raging, I just posted pics of the tail

Please don't link back here!

[Istas]

Originally Posted by skyl4rk

If you want a laugh, check out this thread:

Aeromods!: Versa Exterior Forum: Versa - NICOclub

there will be raging, I just posted pics of the tail

Please don't link back here!

Augh... The ignorance, it hurts! I can hardly stand to keep reading!

[MetroMPG]

OOH! This is going to be good! Thanks for sharing.

I love your level headed replies. I suspect it's soon going to go to a whole nuther level though. "There will be raging" indeed.

I also like that some of the members get what you're doing and are chipping in to help educate.

[skyl4rk]

Scangauge Trip Report
June 10, 2009
Trip
1.19 gallons fuel used
195F water temp max
74.7 miles
2900 rpm max
2.5 hours
50 mph max
29 mph avg
$2.50 fuel cost
62.7 mpg

Tank
290 miles tank to empty
31 mph average on tank
52.9mpg on tank
398 miles on tank scangauge
395.7 miles on tank odometer
688 estimated total tank mileage

[akcapeco]

There actually seem to be a fair number of respectful posts about your mods on the Versa Forum... not everyone dismisses the effort outright.

[skyl4rk]

I am turning my Versa into a stealth RV, I removed the passenger seat and put in a plywood base which hopefully is big enough to sleep on. I also added a cheap/easy mirror mod which is just held on with adhesive, on one side it is held on by the adhesive on the back of the mirror, and on the other side it is held on by a piece of rubber molding which also has adhesive on it. Then the mirror "mount" is wrapped with electrical tape.

[skyl4rk]

Originally Posted by skyl4rk

If you want a laugh, check out this thread:

Aeromods!: Versa Exterior Forum: Versa - NICOclub

there will be raging, I just posted pics of the tail

I am amazed that there haven't been a lot of negative posts, maybe the mods have cracked down on that forum.

Even I think that the tail looks odd, but for 30% fuel efficiency I will drive an odd vehicle.

[1337]

Originally Posted by akcapeco

There actually seem to be a fair number of respectful posts about your mods on the Versa Forum... not everyone dismisses the effort outright.

The Versa forum members are getting a bit out of hand. skyl4rk clearly has no disrespect for performance tuners, so why should they be so condescending to ecomodders?

I think the joke is really on the performance tuners. Why pour money into an economy car like a Versa when you could just buy a used WRX and have way more high-speed fun? The Versa makes sense as an ecomodder's car, but not as a tuner's car.

[evolutionmovement]

I've found "tuners" to consistently be the most closed-minded and thick-headed of car enthusiasts and I guess with their prime motivation, it's little surprise. Too bad, as the hot-rodding movement started with far more open-minded people willing to try anything they thought would work, much of it aerodynamically related. Guess the current closed-mindedness also explains the stagnation. Any moron with more money than sense can make an engine more powerful (or even more likely, pay someone else to do it) using well established formulas with slight alterations, but the creativity and actual problem solving skills required to forge your own path is beyond the reach of many. Perhaps that's why they seem personally offended by new ideas, especially ones not so base as simply more power in an inadequate platform—they actually realize on some level just how pointless their pursuits are and how common their results. All tuner articles read like laundry lists, blah, blah, 4-piston calipers, blah, blah, turbo, blah, blah, intercooler... I swear the articles are just forms with fill-in-the-blanks.

I think it looks interesting, but that it works is what counts.

[elhigh]

That is some slick, slick work. The closeoff panels on the nose look completely stock in the pictures.

62+ mpg, man that's awesome. Forget the naysayers, you're on a roll.

Think of this - needing less power to cover ground due to your aero improvements, your engine burns less fuel and therefore generates less waste heat, thus pushing its heat load into the radiator down closer to where the airflow through your little vents is sufficient. It was already sufficient, but now you've got some headroom.

Rock on, this thing is fabulous. And reversible!