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Old 11-28-2007, 04:14 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Geo Metro
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Last 3: 70.09 mpg (US)

MPGiata - '90 Mazda Miata
90 day: 54.46 mpg (US)

Even Fancier Metro - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage top spec
90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

Appliance car Mirage - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage ES (base)
90 day: 62.14 mpg (US)
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Another food break ...

I worked on the car most of this afternoon, with a couple of breaks for family stuff.

The hardest part was maneuvering the tall tranny in line with the motor - getting the splines on the input shaft to mate with the crank/flywheel. I spent quite a bit of time messing around with that before I noticed all my jigglin' and wigglin' had compressed the motor mounts over to one side of the engine bay, so the tranny was bumping against stuff it wouldnt' normally hit. Once I jiggled the motor back to its normal position, the tranny slipped right on.

So it's all in now. Just have to refill fluids, attach the clutch cable, torque the axle nuts and maybe one or 2 other things I forget at the moment. And then I can try it out!

But now... barbeque
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