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Old 04-22-2013, 09:25 PM   #366 (permalink)
California98Civic
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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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EDIT: I did it. I quit my two teams and the main page's list of "top gasoline cars."

Latest tank is an improvement, despite driving faster. Check my fuel logs. You'll see that a lot rests on whether I did my gps calibration of the odometer readings correctly. What I have learned is that the VSS and the speedometer gears on the fifth gen CX and sixth gen DX transmissions are identical. Which means I am calibrating the new readings (because I thought the CX tranny would require it, having been designed for 13" wheels) only to discover the trannys are identical, so I should have been calibrating my pre trans swap readings too. My bet is that Honda gave the sixth gen taller wheels for style points and compensated for the resulting odometer/speedometer inaccuracy with a tire brand that fixed all or most of the discrepancy. My current tires are not the OEM and are probably a little larger. Strange, huh? I'm tempted to quite teams and take my car off the gasoline vehicles list because my FE readings seem so chaotic now.
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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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