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Minor update on the car: My scavenging abilities have netted me a big part for the interior- a center console out of an early Dodge/Plymouth Neon. I still need to locate another power port to wire into the console for charging my cell phone, but this puts me one step closer to my eventual MPGuino install. I wanted to fix a lot of things with the dash ( the giant water leak from the cowl through the A/C system being one of them) and so I am gathering the parts to do all of it at once. I still need a tach cluster as I plan to use a smaller screen for the MPGuino and install it in the tach face like another member on here did.
I also scavenged some fairly decent speakers ( 5.25 Infinity coaxials for the front and Rockford Fosgate 6x9's for the back- $22 for all 4) and am busy building some mounting solutions for them. Likewise, I am also adding a few pounds of sound deadening as GM/Suzuki didn't see fit to use any from the factory. Early Metros are very noisy inside because of this and I have tinnitus so I need to keep the noise level down for my own sake.
All in all this is a fun little project for me. I get to solve problems and invent new bits and pieces to make this cheap car better. I've long since decided that that is what is most important to me in the car hobby. It's not about winning a race necessarily but rather about intelligent problem solving.
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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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