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texanidiot25 · 04-26-2010, 12:50 PM

Thanks CFG. I knew about the other mechanical changes, but not the alternator switching! I'll have to rig a dummy light manually and see if that holds true.

When I get to the car, I'll toss in a bottle of octane booster for s-n-g's. Among other things, carb rebuild, timing belt, and ignition tune up parts are on the way. Glad I wasn't knocking the motor to hell with regular. It's interesting that Honda used high compression with regular gas. But I'm moving from the V8 world to this Honda, so maybe the smaller/weaker motors don't need high octane as much?

More info about the car: http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...-hf-13053.html

04-26-2010, 12:50 PM	#8 (permalink)
texanidiot25 Master EcoModder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 331 Formula - '96 Firebird Formula/Trans-Am 90 day: 19.31 mpg (US) Thanks: 8 Thanked 31 Times in 18 Posts	Thanks CFG. I knew about the other mechanical changes, but not the alternator switching! I'll have to rig a dummy light manually and see if that holds true. When I get to the car, I'll toss in a bottle of octane booster for s-n-g's. Among other things, carb rebuild, timing belt, and ignition tune up parts are on the way. Glad I wasn't knocking the motor to hell with regular. It's interesting that Honda used high compression with regular gas. But I'm moving from the V8 world to this Honda, so maybe the smaller/weaker motors don't need high octane as much? More info about the car: http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...-hf-13053.html __________________ Lets see how far it can go "All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. [...] But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for the same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours." -Sonny's Blues