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Old 08-17-2012, 08:26 PM   #99 (permalink)
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sc1 - '98 saturn sc1
Team Saturn
90 day: 43.17 mpg (US)

Airplane Bike - '11 home built Carp line Tour

rans - '97 rans tailwind

tractor - '66 International Cub cadet 129

2002 Space Odyssey - '02 Honda Odyssey EX-L
90 day: 28.25 mpg (US)

red bug - '00 VW beetle TDI

big tractor - '66 ford 3400

red vw - '00 VW new beetle TDI
90 day: 58.42 mpg (US)

RV - '88 Winnebago LeSharo
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I sold my 91 CRX HF because it was a California model, 3.25 final drive, and also when I went to bleed the brakes, the fitting broke due to rust. The Saturn is a bigger car, more frontal area. I'll take a peek at the photos.

I cut 6.5 inches off the rear wing, riveted it back together and need to make some brackets to mount it behind the deck.


Looks good... 1991 was a long time ago, I worked for l Douglas Aircraft Company (Mc Donnell Douglas). I had a 1977 honda accord with a 1981 1355cc civic cvcc engine milled to 10.25:1 compression ratio, advanced ignition timing, jetted lean and a taller fifth gear. I got 50 mpg consistently without hypermilling. It would have done better with some aeromods! It finally burnt a piston.

Lets see... If I assume that your CRX top speed was 100 mph and had a 7 mph increase with the tail, then the reduction in drag would be 1-(100/107)^3 =22%, pretty good.
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