With my gas savings, I bought this! (2000 Honda Insight)

[mikeyjd]

Originally Posted by cowmeat

Might be able to check it out this weekend or next weekend for ya. I need to get over there anyway. We lived in Pinellas county for years, and there are some friends I need to stop in and see.

I doubt that the Insight will sell fast with IMA problems so it will probably still be available.

I need to see about the family's schedule. With the IMA issue, wouldn't it be possible to disable it until and run it without intill I'm able to dig into it?

I emailed the guy and asked if he'd consider a $2,000 offer.

[cowmeat]

Mikey, here's another automatic that just popped up on CL in Tampa

2002 HONDA INSIGHT HYBRID,47 TO 49 MILES PER GALON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mikeyjd]

Originally Posted by cowmeat

Mikey, here's another automatic that just popped up on CL in Tampa

2002 HONDA INSIGHT HYBRID,47 TO 49 MILES PER GALON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It looks nice. After seriously considering pulling the trigger, I think I'm going to be holding off at least till spring. I don't think my wife drives enough to keep a battery healthy and I don't think having it sit around 3-5 days a week all winter long is a good idea with these cars. In the end I think it doesn't make quite enough sense to justify to extra expense. Thanks for looking for me though.

[cowmeat]

Added a radiator block that I read up about on IC.

It's a 17" x 7" piece of cardboard simply dropped between the radiator and condenser, with a tab taped to it for easy removal.

Last night I got a little over 80 mpg on the way home, so between the kill switch and the radiator block, it's definitely helping!

[cowmeat]

Going to install the new EGR valve today after it warms up a little. I got it for cheap off IC, hopefully it'll cure that last little bit of jerking at low load.
I'll check and re-torque the plugs again while I'm at it, of course. I'll probably find that all three have worked their way loose again, lol!

***edit***

EGR valve was an easy five minute swap. Torqued the plugs again (one had actually loosened a bit in six months). Replaced the faulty headlight switch, hopefully my low beams will stay on 100% of the time now i.l.o. the 99.5% they have been recently

[cowmeat]

Big thumbs-up to Daox!

Today I installed the three-button shift knob he made me from his 3D printer, complete with the Ecomodder logo!

Nice job, man! This is way cooler than my old shifter with the buttons taped on, and everything's working great! I was even more impressed when I took it apart and realized you also printed the buttons. Pretty cool stuff!

It's nice having all three buttons (Injector kill, clutch switch, and brake regen button) all at my fingertips, integrated into the shifter like that.

***EDIT***

Here's the explanation of the buttons since it looks like others may be interested:

The center button is a pop-up on/off clutch interrupt switch for manually controlling the assist and regen functions. When I click it in, the car thinks the clutch pedal has been pressed, so I get no assist or regen. When I'm at cruising speed in lean burn and don't want any background IMA charging, or when I know I will need to come to a stop and want to kill the injectors I click this button on. This doesn't affect auto-start in any way.

Thumb button on left is a momentary switch and controls the power to the Injectors. I can kill the injectors and coast to a stop at any speed, basically extending auto-stop function to any speed. To use the injector kill button, I have the center clutch interrupt button clicked on, or the car will keep trying to re-start since it's above normal auto-stop speed.

The button at top right is the brake regen button, and is a momentary that allows me to use the assist motor for braking (and also turns on the brake lights), which allows me to keep the IMA battery fully charged since I don't let it background charge while in lean burn. I can keep my finger on it all the way through downshifts, and it keeps charging the IMA almost to a dead stop.

[Baltothewolf]

Wat how do I get one of these!!!! I want one!!!

[cowmeat]

I know, right?

Out of twenty or so mods this is definitely the coolest, and will help me control the three buttons way easier!

Check with Daox, he already has the specs for this one, he'd probably be willing to make a second one.

[Xist]

Heh. I had not understood why someone would want three buttons on the shifter. So, apparently they are irrelevant to my Civic?

Have I not already asked how I get one?

But give me one with four, with the fourth saying "I am Groot."

[cowmeat]

Lol, yeah needing three active buttons is strictly an Insight thing!