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Old 07-19-2017, 09:01 PM   #18 (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
90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US)
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I saw a module on digikey.com that offered 14.5 volts and 6 amps. I bought a few lower power ones for experimenting with my daughter a few years ago. Those were just toys, for toy projects. It seems possible that you could build a system around the exhaust pipes or muffler more easily because less oil/grease and it is open to the wind for cooling one side. I wondered about using my aero diffuser under my rear bumper as a platform for tiles near the muffler. There is a lot of heat back there, but not the supper heat of the exhaust header and CAT. I thought of it after reading that BMW was experimenting with electricity generation using the muffler end of the exhaust system.
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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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