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Originally Posted by A.J.
Congratulations on the new car! From experience, it's definitely a fun car but the 2.0 engine is underpowered at low rpm and highway rpm is sky high. Good luck trying to reach 40 mpg highway.
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they are extremely high, 3300/3400 @ 70mph, which is our freeway speeds.
Ive done some research and there are 2 different gear types I can use, as mentioned above the 5th gear from the 6 cyl 626 is a straight swap, and I wouldnt even need to drop the trans or anything, its reachable from the top part of the trans.
but there is also a diesel trans available in Europe that is a straight swap that has significantly taller gears, someone on the mazda247 forums just bought one for $550.0 delivered !
once installed his hwy rpms should drop into the range of 2800 @ 70.
to me, that seems to be a viable option as I can imagine it would pay for itself within a year (heck, Ive already saved $34 above estimated fuel costs with simple hyperminling techniques)
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Originally Posted by Bill in Houston
Mike, I wonder if regular Great Stuff foam from a can would do what you need? It seems to set pretty hard and strong.
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thats exactly what Im using now Bill
the other stuff was dextek or something like that. supposed to be more dense in its application, but what ive found is it simply turns to dust upon any contact. which is what makes me think maybe I got a bad can of it.
but even so, Im happy with the foam Im using now as it cures very solid and will allow exactly what Im hoping to achieve.
I have a little delay as we have a pretty heavy t-storm right now, so it looks like tomorrow is going to be the finish date. I was able to complete the outer edges so the entire "framework" part is complete, now all that is left is filling it in.
and with luck, I can also use these as a mold for making fiberglass caps, and then sell them on the mazda protege forums