07-23-2020, 03:34 PM
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If I do not have friends, do you think that I can pay an Uber driver? 
When people here discuss complicated metalworking people usually respond "Use fiberglass."
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07-23-2020, 04:04 PM
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"....use Coroplast!"
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07-23-2020, 04:18 PM
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I play one on the internet.
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07-23-2020, 05:11 PM
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Not Doug
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When I tried to reinforce my rolled plastic air dam with styrofoam in preparation for fiberglassing it I sure couldn't curve it like that! I just wanted to make it follow the curve of my bumper and it kept breaking!
Hey Tre, don't mind me, I have been here for a long time, and I have tried many things, which are usually unsuccessful. One time I made a shrink-wrap air dam!
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07-23-2020, 08:08 PM
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Belated welcome, Trekintosh!!
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Originally Posted by Trekintosh
I also have Fuelly and will track every (infrequent) fuel-up.
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This is the thing I'm most interested in - MPG is where the rubber meets the road, right?
Please consider logging tanks here as well for when Fuelly goes AWOL (it will, eventually... so many 3rd party sites screw things up for us around here. EG. image hosting sites going belly-up.)
PS: congrats on obtaining such an iconic car! |
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07-24-2020, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Trekintosh
Yes to model a car, no to this car, no to CFD in general, probably the cloud, this is multiple years in the future and I have a Guy for Fusion if I need help. Honestly though I really don't plan on majorly reshaping the car's body. I'm not a great metalworker, this is beyond my means, at least until I get a garage with a workshop.
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Looking forward to seeing your improvements in the interior. I like the design theme a lot. Should be very cool.
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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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07-24-2020, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Belated welcome, Trekintosh!!
This is the thing I'm most interested in - MPG is where the rubber meets the road, right?
Please consider logging tanks here as well for when Fuelly goes AWOL (it will, eventually... so many 3rd party sites screw things up for us around here. EG. image hosting sites going belly-up.)
PS: congrats on obtaining such an iconic car!
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Thanks! I haven't really looked into this site's logging but I'll see about logging. Still haven't had to fill it up yet. Needle is getting really low though! Car only has like a 5 gallon tank. I want to run the car until it's completely empty, so I'm carrying a can in the trunk. This will let me know where the fuel gauge means actually empty (and makes sure I get rid of all the premium I accidentally put in the car).
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Looking forward to seeing your improvements in the interior. I like the design theme a lot. Should be very cool.
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Thanks! Me too. Now that my Vic is fully repaired I can stop having to drive this car every single day and actually start working on it. |
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07-24-2020, 08:58 PM
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First fill up: car was surging as I pulled into the station.
7-24-2020 5:55pm, 36,039 miles. 5.657 gallons. $19.00 ($3.36/gal)
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07-25-2020, 01:40 AM
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Not Doug
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Well, that is one way to do it!
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07-25-2020, 06:12 AM
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Hey the fuel log doesn’t have a “first fill up,” and I wanted to get my mileage written down somewhere.
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