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Old 04-12-2013, 10:11 AM   #15 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Location: Coastal Southern California
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
Team Honda
90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike
90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US)
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Originally Posted by Slow_s10 View Post
Nice looking car. Congrats. Modest mods: Ultra Gauge!, spoiler comes off and maybe gets replaced with something flat, tire pressure goes up, upper grill gets blocked and license plate moved, windows get (darkest!) tint to reduce AC use, test power steering belt removal (which is easily reversed). Hypermiling: drive it speedlimit or just below on the freeway, try to keep the car from jumping up over 2000 RPMs on acceleration and hill climbing, look in owner's manual to see if it can be flat towed so you know whether you can coast off in neutral and if so use EOC to drift slowly and quietly up to long lights.

Get some great music and enjoy a "new" car.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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