Congrats & welcome!
Love the custom look.
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Originally Posted by mozul
It's use will mostly be a commuter car for me 11 miles slow California freeway/surface streets one way. It will also serve as a tow vehicle behind my RV.
Do you guys have any other suggestions or mods for this car?
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I would strongly suggest a shifter-mounted engine kill switch. The first-gen IMA was very conservative about when it would kill the engine, and in your speed up/slow down commute, it would be an enormous efficiency boost. The Prius was/is far more aggressive in stopping the engine, and it shows in its higher city MPG ratings.
Google "calpod" switch mod for how to do it in the gen. 1 Insight. Not sure if it's directly applicable to the Civic, or if there's a Civic-specific mod out there.
On my Insight, it worked great. Shift to neutral, press the switch until the engine stops. And it left the normal "triggers" in place to instantly/automatically restart the ICE -- any one of: depleting the brake vacuum; pressing the accelerator; shifting into gear.
A kill swich is one of the coolest mods on IMA because of the auto-restart conditions. It would boost your mileage a lot.
There's a lot more you could do than that, but it's where I would start.