Sorry for the lack of updates. I pretty much took residence at the office for my very first tax season as a Jr. Accountant. Due to the long hours, I decided to just drive to work and stay late. The 4 hour round trip commute by train I used to take was just way too slow. This allowed me to rack up more highway miles (yay for mpg boost! boo for wear and tear)
I eventually made it out alive and took 3 week European Vacation to Prague, Paris, Venice, Florence, and Rome.
Proposed to my girl at the Eiffel Tower, she said YES!
Pics or it didn’t happen…
When I got back from vacation, my bosses pulled me in for a performance review. Got big fat raise! Plus I was able to negotiate with them to allow me to only work 4 days a week so that I don’t have to do the 100 mile round trip commute 5 days a week. It’s not much of a cutback, but it will definitely help in the long run. Plus they offered me the potential to work from home (in the future). Sweet!
Now with that extra day off every week, I have more time to dedicate to ecomodding!
I finally installed the middle and rear underbelly tray (with rear diffuser) v. 2.5. I decided to go with a “modular” approach and cut up the undertray into smaller pieces (instead of one large piece) and also created separate mounting points for each. This way if something falls off, only that one piece should fall off and not the entire thing.
The middle/rear Undertray is now 2 pieces. Each piece is mounted onto the lower control arm. This
should allow each piece to flex independently of each other, thus less chances of falling off.
And the rear diffuser back in place
Observations – during the few months of commuting to Los Angeles with no middle underbelly tray, the best trip MPG I could muster was 28-29ish mpg. Now with the full underbelly reinstalled, I easily hit 32-33mpg!
Next up: Inner and outer side skirts, front wheel “canoe style” deflectors, rear wheel boat tails, and possibly re-visit the rear bumper vertical spoilers.