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Old 03-13-2014, 03:11 PM   #37 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by Mista Bone View Post
The big thing is, I'm allowed to easily play with the engine tuning parameters, 96 and up it is not so easy. Now if you could, you could see some gains.
So you have the Russel car? He sold it after building it. You have that car? Now I get your point. You made a faster car that gets about the same fuel econ under freeway conditions as a lean burn v-tec-e engine might. I have looked into chipping, but as you know, OBD2 does not have the options in the aftermarket world that the OBD1 has. Still, though I lose timing if I want "power" to pass something, I can get the power I had in fourth on my old DX transmission simply by dropping to third in my current VX/CX tranny. Fortunately, I have no interest in passing. I like the draft. In warm weather, I easily cruise at steady state 60mph with 60+ mpg averages over scores of miles. Drafting (not too close) I'll top seventy mpg at 60 or even 65mph, easily. But it is true I do not have the power/mpg flexibility options you describe. My car is all about high high fuel economy of the cheap and within the range of my modest skills.
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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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