11-19-2009, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
... "Sure, I can drive you. Just give me a few minutes to re-install the seat."
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Oh man that's too funny.
this was actually my intro to ecomodding. My buddy and I were semipro mountain bike riders when we were in highschool, we had really nice bikes and didn't want them to get jacked off a rack on the back. He pulled the front pass. seat out of his little tercel, we would fit him, me and 2 mountainbikes inside his little car that got 38, instead of my vans 20mpg.
I remember hearing choral music, and a beam of light shone down through the clouds as I thought of the possibilities
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11-26-2009, 10:51 AM
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...if you're watching the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade on TV with the kids, and Ronald McDonald's shoe car catches your eye due to it's aerodynamic shape.
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11-26-2009, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
... when you can leave your car parked downtown with (a) the doors unlocked, (b) the keys in the ignition, and (c) the ignition position at "ON" while going about your business, confident that no one's going to take it.
(* ... because the car's an EV that needed the 12v battery topped up by the DC-DC converter, which happens when the key is ON. If anyone tried to take the car, they would have either (a) given up when turning to "start" did nothing, plus probably also (b) pressed the clutch, activating the emergency pack disconnect!)
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Thanks for the laugh Metro ! I have a vivid imagination, and I can see that all in my mind.  |
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11-26-2009, 02:42 PM
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Even if they could start the car, they guy would be so scared from the 'silent ghost car' that he would pee his pants and run off.
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11-26-2009, 02:58 PM
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Even if they could start the car, they guy would be so scared from the 'silent ghost car' that he would pee his pants and run off.
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That's why Darin has waterproof seat covers 
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e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be
What matters is where you're going, not how fast.
"... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell
Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread
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11-26-2009, 03:38 PM
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That's why Darin has waterproof seat covers |
correction: waterproof seat cover
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11-26-2009, 10:55 PM
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You notice how skinny one of your friends is and you think, "What MPG would I get if I was that skinny?" (Or, I wish I was as skinny as Allie Moore... For more MPGs!)
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If America manages to eliminate obesity, we would save as much fuel as if every American were to stop driving for three days every year. To be slender like Tiffany Yep is to be a real hypermiler...
Allie Moore and I have a combined carbon footprint much smaller than that of one average American...
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12-04-2009, 12:57 AM
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ykyaem
when people posting on a web forum about modifying vehicles to get better mileage imply that mileage you're getting is impossible and that you are just making up numbers
40 + mpg out of a mid size truck?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
A few months ago I returned home just as my neighbor pulled into his driveway. It was cold (around freezing) with some rain and sleet, and he yells to me: You rode your bike? In this weather?!?
So the other day we both returned home at the same time again, only now the weather is warm, sunny, with no wind. And I yell to him: You took the car? In this weather?!?
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12-04-2009, 01:16 AM
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You notice how skinny one of your friends is and you think, "What MPG would I get if I was that skinny?" (Or, I wish I was as skinny as Allie Moore... For more MPGs!)
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We have a funny joke about this between friends on our motorcycle trips. Since I'm a small guy of about 130lbs, every time someone gets a new bike they say "Just have D man ride it, it's better weight reduction than taking a crap and riding just the bike itself! If it's slow with him on it then it'll be slower with you on it!" since we have one friend who always seems to go through bikes.... constantly....
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12-07-2009, 04:45 PM
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YKYAEM when you get a sense of pride out of the outcome of a certain recent test invoving a detachable boatail on a FireFly.
( And brag it up to your co-workers as if the the members here are part of your family )
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