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Congrats! HX rims are only about 11 pounds, but I bet the OEM wheels were 18 even if alloy. Mine were 16 pound alloys and they were 14 inchers. Anyway, you may have shaved 30 pounds dead weight and a hundred or more rotational mass. I recently had my VX wheels on the car for a few days and even though my MINI rims are only 12 pounds, I felt the differences. For a hypermiler in stop/go traffic light weight wheels are gold because you often lose part of your coasting chances to braking for stops (lights and traffic), yet you always have to use gas to accelerate again.
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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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