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Old 08-28-2021, 11:26 AM   #6 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Location: Coastal Southern California
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike
90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US)
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Originally Posted by JSH View Post
Races like the 24hrs of Lemons and Grassroots Motorsport's $2000 challenge always include a lot of creative accounting and shops with very expensive equipment to turn out free or very cheap custom parts.
Yeah. That is right. People buy the car salvage for a cheap price but with lots of parts they can sell off and deduct from the total budget. And the safety equipment, such as the roll cage, is exempt from the budget. Also, if you are over, or they don't believe your budget story, they simply penalize you laps and send you out to race.
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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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