2011 Resolutions and Goals (ecomodding and other)

[PaleMelanesian]

Not much modding planned.
Just keep doing the very best I can at hypermiling.
2011 might be new car year. It's been 10 years with this civic.
Focus more on family. (and... try to put 3 car seats in a civic )

[Daox]

I dunno about a 96 Civic, but my cousin had 3 car seats in his 2000.

[menaus2]

1. Get a relatively cheap used diesel car (rabbit, or some VW TDI)
2. Aeromod the beast (a la basjoos except with kind for foam fiberglass composite)
3. Set it up to run off biodiesel
4. Laugh all the way to the bank when gas prices go through the roof. XD

that would be more than enough for one year I'd think

edit: just realized this thread was for 2010... meh only one year off.

[CigaR007]

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

No pun intended?

hahaha.. Sort of..

[menaus2]

Already posted in the 2010 thread :P but here goes:

1. Graduate College
2. Get a job
3. Get an Apartment
4. Visit friends over in Spain over the summer.
5.Expand my t-shirt business

Mod-wise:
1. Get a relatively cheap used diesel car (rabbit, or some VW TDI)
2. Aeromod the beast (a la basjoos except with kind for foam fiberglass composite)
3. Set it up to run off biodiesel
4. Laugh all the way to the bank when gas prices go through the roof. XD

That's more than a years-worth lol

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

Er, probably not

Are you ashamed of the numbers maybe ?

If you do a remap get one of those boxes where you can revert back to default if you need to - just in case.

The remap boxes to fool the ECU aren't very efficient.

If it's going to be done, I'm getting the Rica E-power (software) upgrade which is designed for lower fuel consumption.
I don't want HP @ high rpm anyway, and I don't want to push the gearbox too hard with 300+ Nm as it's a known weak spot.

[Angmaar]

Life Goals
~Get a part time job that is closer to home (unlike my summer job that's 15Miles away)

Ecomodding
~Grill Block
~Aerodynamic Antenna
~Belly Pan

[PaleMelanesian]

Originally Posted by Daox

I dunno about a 96 Civic, but my cousin had 3 car seats in his 2000.

Ah, cool. It's the same generation, so it's possible. I'm sure it depends greatly on the specific seats being used.

[brucey]

Sold the house, so goal currently is to find an enjoyable job that gives me enough money to start saving up for some nice acreage.

As far as eco mods, I'm just going to go with finish my E-charger project. Hopefully by summer. It's just so hard to get the motivation to go out in the cold and work on it.

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by euromodder

Are you ashamed of the numbers maybe ?

Well, partly. Mostly life just got too complicated so I forgot to record them or lost the various bits of paper I used after my in car notepad got used by someone who resembles the Mrs and it didn't get put back...

Originally Posted by euromodder

The remap boxes to fool the ECU aren't very efficient.

If it's going to be done, I'm getting the Rica E-power (software) upgrade which is designed for lower fuel consumption.
I don't want HP @ high rpm anyway, and I don't want to push the gearbox too hard with 300+ Nm as it's a known weak spot.

There is one that Car mechanics Mag used on their Mini One project - remap to the power of the NA Cooper. They used a plug in box which reprograms the ECU. You plug it in, it downloads the existing one, you email it to them, they send you the updated one, you plug in and it remaps. It also keeps the original one so you can swap it back. Wish I could remember its name but that issue went in the recycling....

I wondered about it as you can use it for different cars and swap them back for trade-ins.