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View Poll Results: Who are you more a hypermiller or ecomodder?
Ecomodder 11 23.40%
Hypermiller 11 23.40%
Both equally 20 42.55%
Hard to say 5 10.64%
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Old 10-18-2012, 05:24 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I'd consider myself both, although I've found it interesting that most folks don't seems to go to "the extreme" in both departments--usually it's mostly one or the other. I've wondered why that is and haven't really come to any conclusions.

I'd love to put Pale in the Aerocivic, or something like that

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Old 10-18-2012, 05:24 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I just like to hack things, build things, and learn things.

When I'm driving it's safety first, getting where I'm going with courtesy and efficiency (of time, distance and effort) second, and stuff like fuel savings after that. Though safe and transparent and time-efficient driving habits tend to be fuel efficient habits as well it seems, perhaps not quite as fuel efficient as hardcore hypermiler techniques.
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Old 10-18-2012, 09:23 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I'm more into adjusting "the nut behind the steering wheel" than making eco-mods. 50% over EPA is enough to get my friends asking me what I've done.
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Old 10-18-2012, 09:50 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I'm more into adjusting "the nut behind the steering wheel" than making eco-mods. 50% over EPA is enough to get my friends asking me what I've done.
Do both--and then when you tell them the mileage you're actually getting, they'll say you're full of it
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Old 10-19-2012, 03:27 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Hypermiling > Ecomodding

It's generally accepted that hypermiling nets the biggest gains in FE, so it follows that

Hypermilers > Ecomodders

Of course, Hypermodders = greatest
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Old 10-19-2012, 09:36 AM   #16 (permalink)
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I'd consider myself both, although I've found it interesting that most folks don't seems to go to "the extreme" in both departments--usually it's mostly one or the other. I've wondered why that is and haven't really come to any conclusions.

I'd love to put Pale in the Aerocivic, or something like that
I too would love that!
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Old 10-22-2012, 11:26 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I do both, and amuse myself by telling my co-workers that the most resent fuel price rise is of no consiquence.
"Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves"
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Old 10-22-2012, 05:41 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I do both.

Started with HM techniques and over time have made a couple mods (kill switch, mirrors delete), but I am definitely looking at more radical modding like a boattail or extreme weight reduction, maybe. I need to get a grill block and belly pan in place, but I'm waiting for this political season to end Also, a PS delete is on the table, as well. Just need the time and motivation to do it.

I recently helped my sister-in-law empty her storage unit for her move to go back to U of M and as I was driving off, she was telling the other two guys that were there with us that I'd been getting 70 mpg by doing the things I have so far. One of the guys goes "I'd take my roof off if I could get that kind of mileage!" I laughed so hard about it when she told me later.

Both her and my wife were haters at the start of my hypermiling adventure and they've both stopped. My wife likes the extra money in our pockets, as do I. She still gives me crap about the way my car looks and refuses to ride in it, lol.
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both, look at my car and you would have to be blind to not see the mods. but my first mod was tweaking the nut behind the wheel. mods help MPG only so much. how I drive makes the mods work for me. any idiot could make my car get EPA (29 MPG) with mods. it takes skill to use them to help me.
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If i can mod a car to be extremely aerodynamic, regardless of FE, that is an otherworldly experience. It's a one form of effortless driving you can't buy.

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