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Old 07-28-2020, 01:16 PM   #556 (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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Love this thread. Much appreciation for all the work on your car. I'm beginning to realize how ideal (and important) those '90 Honda's are for ecomodders. They seem to be incredible reliable too.

Seen your fuel log, hats off!!
Thanks man. And yup, these are exceeding reliable little cars. I am at ~276,000 US miles and compression is nearly as good as new and I am on the original clutch and flywheel. I have done some major repairs, such as the head gasket, but that was at something like 240,000 US miles. Honda makes possibly the best engines in the world when considered on the basis of engineering and initial build quality. Toyota is the only real rival, I think.
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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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