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Old 10-07-2015, 02:30 PM   #341 (permalink)
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Excellent! That alone should boost the acceleration mpg up a good bit.

I called my exhaust man today and we worked out a time to get my wideband O2 bung installed. Friday morning can't get here soon enough!!!

Since I'm not going to have all my updated aero mods in place by Friday, I am going to cancel the plan for coast down testing and focus exclusively on tuft testing after the wideband is in. I've got to get yarn and masking tape by then *mental note*. I'm hoping the data I find will show large gains with any modification to the ZX2's rear!

Also planned is
- new shoes and hardware for the rear drums (very important!!)
- intake manifold gasket
- adjust rear skirts
- 100% lower grill block and figure out how to block upper grill
- replace driver's side front inner fender plastic
- upload tuft videos to YouTube & Eco odder

The drum brakes are scrubbing as of now, hence the importance! I've also had to reevaluate ecomodding in general after I had a rather nasty outburst towards a red light the other morning. I realized that I'm taking this too seriously and have sucked all the fun out of it for myself. No worries, I'm not going anywhere just want to get back to the way it was last year!

That's all I can think of right now trying to keep 50+ mpg going into and through winter is going to be tougher than I thought, but I'm going to go at it as hard as I can

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