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Old 07-13-2014, 05:02 PM   #15 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Location: Coastal Southern California
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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
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I finally snagged a manual '99 HX ... We've been going through it piece-by-piece, slaying dragons and bolting in the good stuff....
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Sounds like a nice build. You should start a thread for the work you've done, and will be doing.
Agree with Daox... sure would like to see a build thread MPGomatic. On the OP's question, there are significant differences between the 1996-00 HX and the 2001-2005 HX: mostly in gearing (earlier had the better taller gears) and engne size (later had the bigger 1.7 engine).

Depending on what you want the newest and highest EPA rated Honda you might get would be the 2006 Insight, which was still the first generation little awesome 2 seater. I'm not totally sold on hybrids, but there are lots of amazing insight projects on this site to use for reference.
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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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