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Originally Posted by Frank Lee

It has been discussed and I think somebody did it or is going to do it. I was considering it pretty seriously for a long while but the bottom line is, as long as the car runs well, I'm not all that motivated to mess with it, especially since some of us have predicted the potential econo improvement to be less than 20% which for my car would be less than 7 mpg.

I'm surprised you took out #3 and #4- did it shake and/or sound bad? I'd take out pairs 1-4 or 2-3.

This I'd considered once on a Geo Storm, taking out the center cylinders (had a broken rod) and running on just the outers (1 and 4). Ended up selling the car to a guy who thought he'd "just buy a new engine" and "drop it in", then ended up junking the car when he priced NEW engines for it instead of listening to me and figuring out that engines from about 100 other cars bolt right in.