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Originally Posted by California98Civic
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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Thanks! And yeah a lot of that I have already considered, like ditching the spoiler, tinting the windows, pumping up the tire pressure, and picking up some kind of OBD2 interface device, ScanGauge, Ultragauge etc. I will probably stick with my Torque app on my phone for now but it will be nice to step it up to a dedicated device. Also I am probably going to hold off on the grill block at least for now as probably 75%+ of my driving is city and stop and go traffic so the aero benifits will be small and the chances of overheating it would be higher. But I will probably at the very least make a simple removable one that I would be able to pop in for longer interstate trips.
Although I am probably just going to drive it as normaly as possible for at least the first full tank of gas so I cna not only get used to driving a very different car but also to set a good baseline MPG number to try and constantly improve upon.
But thanks for all the kind words and suggestions. so far I am in love with this car.
Oh and my son has already named the car for me... he calls it Doc as in the name of the Hudson Hornet fron the Disney Cars movie because according to him it's a blue race car just like Doc.