07-13-2010, 02:26 PM
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The road not so traveled
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I was doing searches on what I could do to my Jeep to improve power, emissions and FE. I think the search was had something to do with how high of a compression ratio I could go on pump gas and not blow up the engine.
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07-13-2010, 02:26 PM
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Google searching for a fuel economy gauge led to the Scan Gauge which led to ecomodder among other fuel economy links.
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07-13-2010, 02:49 PM
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Master EcoModder
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Saw something on "hypermiling" either in a magazine or TV, googled it. Then about 5 websites later, I found this one.
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07-13-2010, 04:48 PM
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Batman Junior
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Coincidentally, I started MetroMPG.com in September 2005, the same week GasSavers started up.
Eventually someone there linked to one of my posts, and that's how I found out about that forum. So I signed up. Met Ben (SVOboy) and a bunch of others.
Trivia: Ben and I were going to officially take over GasSavers from Matt (we and a few other mods had basically been running the place without him anyway), but our agreement fell apart at the last minute.
So we struck out on our own and started EcoModder.
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07-13-2010, 04:52 PM
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Dartmouth 2010
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My story is somewhat like Darin's, except I started out at honda-tech, which I met Matt and we brainstormed GasSavers, eventually founding it...then Darin tells the rest  |
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07-13-2010, 05:48 PM
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Left Lane Ecodriver
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I came here via a google search for FE instrumentation.
I think this site has a lot to offer people, so I like to drop links occasionally on other sites like InsightCentral. Plus there's the EcoModder.com lettering on my car.
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07-13-2010, 10:23 PM
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Pokémoderator
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Hello -
In 2005 we moved into our first home, but it was 35 miles from work. I combed the interweb for all sorts of MPG solutions and joined GasSavers. SVOboy contacted me when EM was starting out and I joined up. I *think* my car is the 27th added to the garage because the URL for my car has "vehicleid=27" in it.
CarloSW2
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07-13-2010, 10:24 PM
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Left Lane Ecodriver
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Since Metro has #11 and #12, and SVOBoy has #13, I reckon you're the 17th.
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07-13-2010, 11:23 PM
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Pokémoderator
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Robert -
Woo-hoo! I guess that makes me an early-adopter. Now if I could only afford an Aptera I could adopt that too ...
CarloSW2
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07-13-2010, 11:38 PM
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Basjoos Wannabe
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Coincidentally, I started MetroMPG.com in September 2005, the same week GasSavers started up.
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So you didn't find ecomodder, you founded it? Just thought the play on words was irresistable!
BTW thanks for striking out on your own!
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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
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