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texanidiot25 · 06-22-2010, 04:25 AM

Why thank you.

The handling difference is staggering, the car is much happier to "rotate" on it's center axis rather than lean around the corner. It's a hoot. 38mpg tank, but the first half of the tank was while toying on back roads, so discounting that 1st half. 2nd half much more conservative, and EOCing where possible. The missfire returned for a day, but dissipated today. If this motor bit the dust, I've been thinking about locating and swapping the VX or HX motors from the later Civics. Still radically efficient, with the reliability of fuel injection (my problems seem to root back to the carb, as the solutions have been in fuel). Also, the massive bump in horse power is more than welcome!

I drive my truck on the weekends to shows, I do miss having a good bit of grunt every now and then. However, the CST10 can drink more gas in a day than this little guy does in a week!

06-22-2010, 04:25 AM	#51 (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	Why thank you. The handling difference is staggering, the car is much happier to "rotate" on it's center axis rather than lean around the corner. It's a hoot. 38mpg tank, but the first half of the tank was while toying on back roads, so discounting that 1st half. 2nd half much more conservative, and EOCing where possible. The missfire returned for a day, but dissipated today. If this motor bit the dust, I've been thinking about locating and swapping the VX or HX motors from the later Civics. Still radically efficient, with the reliability of fuel injection (my problems seem to root back to the carb, as the solutions have been in fuel). Also, the massive bump in horse power is more than welcome! I drive my truck on the weekends to shows, I do miss having a good bit of grunt every now and then. However, the CST10 can drink more gas in a day than this little guy does in a week! __________________ 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