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Old 11-26-2014, 11:59 PM   #15 (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 oldtamiyaphile View Post
If you still need a pulley to make the rest of the car work, I'd rather leave the alt and connect a kill switch to engage the alt under braking. Ideally under DFCO too but that requires more effort.
This is what I do with my alternator kill switch. On a good long downhill or breaking situation, I bump start, put it in gear, watch the O2 sensor reading, and flip on the alternator. No fuel burned, power generated, and I have a kind of crude regenerative breaking. Inferior to the real deal regenerative systems, but wicked cheap!
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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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