Hello everyone! My name is Jooseppi, and I am a budding ecomodder and a freshman Mechanical Engineering student at UMass Lowell.
I enjoyed getting 38-39 MPG out of the Corolla this summer without doing anything special (~60% highway at 65-80 MPH, ~25% back roads at 40-45 MPH, and ~15% city), and I've decided to try for more. I've been doing 70/30 city/hwy driving while commuting to school, getting about 33 in the winter, which is pretty miserable. I radically changed my driving habits and simultaneously installed an UG, and after about 150 miles, it claims that I am getting 40.7 MPG (it hasn't been calibrated, so who knows what it really is). I’m hoping that the 40 is closer to the truth than not. This is the car that I will be ecomodding the most.
The Buick is a 51,000 mie almost-total-creampuff that has the dreaded LIM gasket failure and at least one pitted cylinder head for it. I’m working on getting another cylinder head for it, but I am afraid that this car will stay 100% stock.
The Mercedes is a project car that I got with a bad tranny. I installed another tranny in it, but it’s still having issues and so it sits… this summer, I am hoping to carry out a manual swap and other drivetrain mods to improve the economy AND power, but those are a long story.
Once I’ve upped my post count to 5
, I’ll post pictures of the cars.