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Old 10-09-2012, 09:07 AM   #616 (permalink)
arcosine
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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
90 day: 16.67 mpg (US)
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I use to put card board on my engine, it works, but one time when I was driving home to Chicago from Minneapolis and suddenly had a loss of power on 694 at the 35E interchange, well to make the story short, in a few minutes the car with a full gas tank was a unrecognisable rusty charred cinder at the side of the interstate. Moral of the story, if your car catches fire on the interstate, go to the center and not the right side, cause if the fire truck comes from the other way, it doesn't have to drive 10 miles down to turn around. The black spot in the grass was there until the snow covered it up in October. I carry a fire extinguisher now.

Some Saturns came from the factory with fiberglass insulation in the hood. maybe some Probes did too, I suppose you could trim it to make it fit. It's better to have the blanket right on the engine.
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