You know you're an ecomodder if...

[ebacherville]

when you train the wife in on the use of the scan gauge and your just cant watch as shes tooling around watching the gauge but not up shifting and driving at 15mph at 3k on the tach, you blurt out "upshift to get better MPG's, keep the rpm's low", she replies , OK, settle down.

Above True story , trained the wife on the scan gauge yesterday , shes driving the truck as the veggie benz needs a new filter and I didn't have time to do it, well see what her trip average is tonight... doubt shell beat my 35.6.. but if she does GREAT! Maybe well get some competition going on the scan gauge...

[RiseAbove]

I was at a stoplight and I glanced with envy at the guy next to me in a Geo Metro.

I coasted from the middle of the Kennedy Bridge, to the exit, turned right, turned right again and into a Hardee's drive thru. Technically I coasted from KY to IN to a Hardee's Drive Thru.

I am studying the lines of the roads on my commute like Jeff Gordon on a road course...

;0)

[MetroMPG]

... you get in your EV to move it, and you think, happily, "ahh... no cold start fuel economy penalty!"

[Tango Charlie]

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

... you get in your EV to move it, and you think, happily, "ahh... no cold start fuel economy penalty!"

OK, now you're just bragging...

[millenniumtree]

...you pass gas-sucking SUVs... with your engine off!

...you rarely listen to the radio - to reduce alternator drag, but also because your antenna is retracted/removed! (88-91 civic antennas are manually retractable!)

[Blue07CivicEX]

...you have to turn your engine back on to slow down.

...you see another car identical to yours fly by on the highway and thing "HA! I'm getting twice your gae mileage!"

...you hate having passengers cause it kills your city mileage

...you see a car in a parking lot with TERRIBLE front end aero and want to go grab some coroplast

...you wish all stop signs were yields so you could time them right and not have to stop

[ebacherville]

after you get a scan gauge, and train the wife on how to use it and how to hypermile, and then she is actually starts threatening your best average MPG in that vehicle..

She can pull down 30mpg average now, I can pull down 35 average.. shes catching me.. and shes only been hypermiling 3 days.. OH NO!

[Blue07CivicEX]

It just means you will have to do better too! A little friendly competition never hurt anyone :-)

By the way WOOHOO I am no longer a lurker :-D

[Tango Charlie]

...when you've surfed around ecomodder.com enough to figure out how to put the fuel log readout as your signature. Thanks, Daox!

[extragoode]

...when you find your wife sitting in her Jeep in a parking lot talking on the cell phone with the engine running just to have the air conditioning on and wonder how long she's been doing that and how much gas she burned.

[sdprius858]

Originally Posted by extragoode

...when you find your wife sitting in her Jeep in a parking lot talking on the cell phone with the engine running just to have the air conditioning on and wonder how long she's been doing that and how much gas she burned.

when people tailgate you on the highway flashing their brights at you while you are cruising at 55 getting 84 mpg even though its 8pm and the other 4 lanes are empty

[ebacherville]

when your finishing your latest mod (wheelskirts) and its dark out your using a LED trouble light and the mosquitoes are getting more blood out of you than you gave at the blood drive las month but you don't care because your up against the clock to get it done so tomorrow you can road test them to see if this latest mods is actually going to work out.... then you come in and post on eccomodder.com about you latest mod to your ride.

[ebacherville]

when the first thing you do after you get home from work, even before going in the house is to check the wife's scangauge for her average daily MPG so you can raz her about only being 5% over EPA hi-way mileage

[justpassntime]

You know you are an ecomodder if...

...everyone thinks your car looks weird.

...you get asked "what are you gonna do if you have to change a tire with those funny skirt thingys?" ( I always just tell them I have airless tires, LOL)

...you go to use the glossary and there isn't one! LOL

...no one understands you but posters at ecomodder.com

...you notice how many people you see by the side of the road with a gas can.

[tasdrouille]

You know you're an ecomodder if, when you see a downgrade you shut your engine down, throw your arms up in the air, and take that homer simpson voice to shout "woohoo!! free miles!!"

[Greenblazer]

You laugh when those fools floor their SUV's to go around you on the freeway.

Later,

Allan Greenblazer

[ebacherville]

On the weekend you prove that the wife's route to work can yeild 35+ mpg by loading the wife and kid into a single cab pickup and driving there and back and picking up ice cream while your in town to make a outing of it ..

Yeah we did this this weekend, the wife insisted that here route to work was to hilly to get over 30 mpg.. she had been trying all week.. so we loaded up the regular cab pickup 3 across and went for ice cream in the town she works at, the dairy queen is 2 blocks further than her work place so it was basically the exact route.

We pull in back home and I check the scan gauge.. New record in the pickup!!! 35.7 MPG.. she concedes that it is possible and that she needs to work harder.

He, he I'm always right .. lol

[ebacherville]

Originally Posted by justpassntime

...everyone thinks your car looks weird.

At work some one asked "Who drives the space ship?" and that was before the rear fender skirts and rear glassing on the tail..

[Tango Charlie]

...if you're disappointed as the corn grows too high for you to see traffic coming to a four way stop when you're commuting through the countryside, necessitating a full stop at the intersection. Momentum, thou art a jewel...

[reformed]

When you are single and looking and still willingly drive a beat up, rusty 92 civic when you can afford a much better car, just because you know you can get 50MPG out of it.