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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Sorry if this has been said, I don't feel like reading 9 pages. IMO trying to make one car do everything is going to cost a fortune and in the end have a bunch of compromises. You would have much more fun building your muscle car to be a muscle car and then go find a fuel efficient car and have a blast making that get REALLY good mileage. You might find taking a $2000 budget, buying a $1500 car, and then doing $500 in inexpensive if not free mods to it, learning how to hypermile and getting 50+ mpg is pretty cool too.
Or drop $40,000 on a used Tesla model S and have it all with no duct tape and coroplast.
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What you say is not necessarily true! My car won't be
"doing everything". The goal is to try to squeeze out as much fuel efficiency as possible within the given parameters of building a stock LT1 with mild performance improvements! I am not going to go hog wild like other members of this forum, there is only so much you can do with a V8 that you still want to have full throttle fun with!
Basically my focus is replacing parts with newer less friction versions, ceramic parts, ceramic coated parts, having the motor components sprayed with the friction reduction ceramic coatings now in use on factory cars, something not available in the nineties!
The next big thing I can do is having the motor's air/fuel ratio leaned out for light throttle/cruise and full throttle/fun!
All of this, paired with other modifications should give me a happy balance of increased performance and improved fuel economy. It is nothing impressive compared to full body streamlining and turning a V8 into some kind of hybrid, but for me, it is more than enough!