Back into ecomodding

[BackroadBomber]

Hi there everyone! I’ve actually been a member here for about 14 years, but i haven’t been active in about a decade. When i first signed up here i was a poor college kid with a 4cyl ranger. After i got a good paying job i was less concerned about saving money on gas and i pretty much just used the fuel log to keep track of my mileage. So to get to my current situation, I’m now married with a mortgage and a step daughter, and saving every penny counts. My wife and i ordered a hybrid Ford maverick in October as our new family truckster, but it won’t be in until summer. The dealership told us they could give us $8k for her equinox (which she hated) which was also what we owed on it. We ended up selling it to Carmax for $13,000, which was $2000 more than she paid for it 4 years ago! We pocketed $5,000 but that left us a vehicle down. She works at the end of our street and only really drives to go grocery shopping once or twice a week. We figured the best option was for her to drive my Silverado 1500 and i go buy a “beater” that i could resell once the maverick comes in. Well i found myself a 2003 civic ex with a 5sp, that’s amazingly clean for being a car from the rust belt. The problem is that i absolutely love it, and it’s sucked me right back into ecomodding. My first tank was terrible- only 29mpg, but I’ve found myself doing things such as coasting downhill in neutral and early shifting, stuff i haven’t done for ten years or so. Also the car came with a full tank and i think it just had 87 in it. I filled it back up with 89 and it seems to have more miles in reference to the gas gauge compared to last tank, i guess I’ll find out next fill up. It also came with the dish hubcaps. I’m planning on an upper grill block, rear wheel skirts, and a small front air dam for now. Just incase i do decide to sell it, i want everything reversible. If i decide to keep it, I’d like to swap to a dx or lx transmission (for better gearing) and i could also delete the entire ac system and convert it to manual steering. Anyways, i hope the picture works. I’ll be sure to post more as i go. If i can get the car to 40mpg I’d be very happy.



Edit- i have no idea how to add a photo properly. The first one uploaded upside down, so i uploaded an already upside down photo thinking it would flip it back over and it did not. Can anyone help me with that?

[freebeard]

When I saw the pictures I thought you were Down Under.

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Usually the rotation is 90°.

How about Moon disks on the front?

[BackroadBomber]

Oh so i need to download vbulletin? I’m not sure if i can do that on my iPhone but I’ll try.

[freebeard]

You can't.

vBulletin is the backend to the site. The most you could is join/start a thread in ecomodder.com/forum/forum-news-feedback and lodge a complaint.

[BackroadBomber]

Ahh ok well I’ll try to find an image hosting site or something then. Modding my car won’t be as fun if i can’t post pictures of it lol

[freebeard]

I wouldn't give in. ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/how-post-pictures-ecomodder-so-they-never-die Isn't about that particularly, but it might be helpful. I think the Ecomodder albums are best, then attachments, then external sites.

Here's a random rotated pic from one of my albums: The thumbnail is rotated, but it displays correctly in a post




What are ya gonna do?

[BackroadBomber]

Thank you, freebeard. I followed the instructions and it worked, except the picture was still upside down. And i tried both a normal picture and a picture i flipped upside down on my camera roll. I think it’s an iPhone thing, i don’t own an actual computer. I read online that it wouldn’t do it if i took the picture with my phone horizontally, so I’ll try that tomorrow. Thank you for your help.

[BackroadBomber]

Haha figured it out! Have to take pictures with my phone sideways with the volume buttons facing down. Anyways, this is my car. Found some materials to make a grill block out of in the garbage at work, hopefully I’ll have time to do that tomorrow.