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brucepick · 08-19-2012, 06:43 PM

New job - excellent!!
Good luck with the Celica too. I don't know the Toyota line that well but had really good luck with a '76 Corolla right through approx '86 at 186K miles.

Can you get a tranny with more gears so you have a taller top gear? A performance engine running at lower rpms should get real mpg improvement on the highway at least.

And I definitely recommend a kill switch for convenient coasting. Not sure how you would do that if it has a carburetor but there must be threads on that.

08-19-2012, 06:43 PM	#8 (permalink)
brucepick OCD Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Eastern CT, USA Posts: 1,936 Outasight - '00 Honda Insight Team Honda Gen-1 Insights 90 day: 54.18 mpg (US) Thanks: 431 Thanked 396 Times in 264 Posts	New job - excellent!! Good luck with the Celica too. I don't know the Toyota line that well but had really good luck with a '76 Corolla right through approx '86 at 186K miles. Can you get a tranny with more gears so you have a taller top gear? A performance engine running at lower rpms should get real mpg improvement on the highway at least. And I definitely recommend a kill switch for convenient coasting. Not sure how you would do that if it has a carburetor but there must be threads on that. __________________ Coast long and prosper. Driving '00 Honda Insight, acquired Feb 2016.