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Old 11-01-2022, 03:29 PM   #61 (permalink)
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Are those riv nuts into the body?

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Old 11-01-2022, 03:44 PM   #62 (permalink)
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Are those riv nuts into the body?
Yeah, straight into the unibody of the car.
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Old 11-11-2022, 07:07 PM   #63 (permalink)
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Not exactly an ecomod, unless you consider it ecomodding to replace a pickup truck with a small sports car, but I made a thing this morning.











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It's tempting to narrow and perhaps taper it a bit, but that's a project for another day.
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Put a trunk in it and you have a boat tail.
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Put a trunk in it and you have a boat tail.
I'm more than a little tempted to build a more enclosed cargo box that acts as a boat tail. For now, I'm still maximizing utility.
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Small update. I got three good road trip tanks in. Driving in light to heavy rain, mostly with the top down, at 100-110kph, with some change in elevation (up and down ~1500m), I'm averaging right around 5.6L/100km or ~42mpg, give or take. I expect my one outlier tank closer to 50 was probably an overfill, combined with descending in elevation.

Tire pressure was in the ballpark of 36psi. I prefer to run them around 38, but any higher and the ride gets punishingly harsh. I didn't feel it was worth a top-off for 2psi. The spec calls for 29psi.
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