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Both cars will live again, don't worry! I just haven't decided the exact configuration of how that will happen. I had already sent the head of the automatic car out to a specialist ( 3 Tech performance) for their fuel economy rebuild and reground camshaft so that engine is getting rebuilt. That engine will be paired with the manual transmission but I do not know which car will get it yet. I will be running a compression test on the engine in the 4 door car when I get it home today to see if it is any good. If it is, it will go into the 2 door car with the automatic and the new engine will go in to the 4 door. If it is bad, I have a buyer for the 4 door's shell and I will carefully take what I need from it before sending it on to a new owner who wants to use it's body for his own project. It's a rust free Metro with minimal body damage after all, and those are hard to come by nowadays. I'd much rather see it go to a good home than as shredded scrap to make more junk products in China.
My hope is for a city cycle fuel economy of 50 mpg when used for pizza delivery. It would represent a 60% reduction in fuel costs over the Frontier I currently use, or a savings of $150-200 a month depending on the price of gas. I will also be VERY happy to have A/C this summer. I didn't last year and it damn near killed me from heat exhaustion.
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No green technology will ever make a substantive environmental impact until it is economically viable for most people to use it. This must be from a reduction in net cost of the new technology, not an increase in the cost of the old technology through taxation
(Note: the car sees 100% city driving and is EPA rated at 37 mpg city)
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