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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Taking the difference between your average MPG with the Tacoma and your average with the HF and assuming $4/gallon gasoline, the HF will have paid for its purchase price in saved gasoline in about 12,000 miles, or maybe an average American's annual driving. Add another four or five thousand miles and its average over the Tacoma will have paid for the Civic EX too. This car will save you lots of cash, and it's freakin' fun too.
So what are your next plans?
BTW, do you know which final drive transmission it has? The 2.95 FD or the 3.250 FD.
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I know that with the difference between the Tacoma and the CRX I will make my money back in no time, the problem is I'm going off of the civic. Which after about 4 tanks I think I saved $50+ or so, which will take a while to make $1300. But I haven't been driving much, in a couple months I'll be taking 3 or more trips to vacaville a week from Sacramento.
My next plans are to put on my lower grille block, make some side skirts and rear tire spats, get a convex mirror for the passenger side, and maybe some coroplast to block up the rear bumper from being a parachute.
I'm 95% sure I have the Cali edition 3.250 FD because there was a post that had pics of the two different speedometers @ 77mph and mine matched the Cali edition. I also figured out that the Cali edition came with a passenger mirror, while the 49 state version did not. I found a website saying that a person could identify which version the car is in the door jam, but I couldn't find it again for the life of me.
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Originally Posted by mbolton1990
Still have the original D15B6?
If so be kind to her and she'll last for ages,just know those motors are very hard to get parts for.
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I'd imagine they are. I went to the in town pick-and-pulls to find a stock intake tube that goes from the air filter to the throttle body because the one on the car had a crack (which had NO effect on air going into the car) which failed visual inspection for smog. The second pick-and-pull I went to I got lucky because the engine was pulled from the car, so I walked on but that was the only CRX there, so I looked inside the car and found the exact tube I needed and was good to go after that.
so far I'm going to use conventional oil in it, I've switched both the Tacoma and Civic to synthetic but I just feel safer having the dino oil in this car. For now...
