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Old 07-30-2021, 10:09 PM   #79 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Geo Metro
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Last 3: 70.09 mpg (US)

MPGiata - '90 Mazda Miata
90 day: 54.46 mpg (US)

Even Fancier Metro - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage top spec
90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

Appliance car Mirage - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage ES (base)
90 day: 62.14 mpg (US)
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Another reason...

It's not for lack of ideas for additional ecomods for my fleet o' crapcans that I don't post more projects in the forum.

In the past few years, I've simply been spending more time on unrelated projects.

Case in point:


Today: I meant only to balance & sharpen the blade on my saved-from-the-dumpster (many years ago) electric lawnmower.




But when I started scraping the dried grass from underneath, I saw that the surface rust was threatening to become serious rust. So I took it apart, scraped and repainted the whole thing, top & bottom. (Last year I welded little backing plates where the wheels attach because the metal was cracking around the bolt holes due to fatigue.)





Good for another 30 years?

Moral: there's only so much tinker time in a day, and I wasted several hours of it.

I also managed to service the rear brakes on the MPGiata, but that doesn't qualify as an ecomod.
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