07-25-2020, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Trekintosh
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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Sounds like a fine choice.
In my fuel log here, I created a fictitious first entry that reflected my long tracked but never recorded FE in this car (33 mpg tank averages, give or take a couple MPG). It is just a placeholder to represent the baseline of where I already was for years (about 10% above EPA) before learing the word "hypermile" or finding ecomodder.com.
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07-25-2020, 12:57 PM
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#122 (permalink)
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[Judgmentally] I'm not judging!
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07-25-2020, 11:49 PM
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Today’s mini project is electrical. Just sitting on top of the battery is this horrible glob of electrical tape. Who knows what horrors lie within.
Yeesh! Just a big pile of corrosion nutted together.
So I replaced it all with this chintzy bus bar that is way way better but not ideal. Once I rerun a bunch of these wires and relocate the battery to the back of the car I’ll redo this but for now it’ll be fine.
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07-26-2020, 12:05 AM
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The knife switch is a nice touch. 
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07-26-2020, 12:30 AM
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There's plenty of parasitic losses so if I'm not driving the car for a while I turn it off. I could get one of those battery low voltage cutoff doohickeys but those are a hundred bucks while a knife switch is free.99 because I had it left over from my porsche.
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07-26-2020, 12:37 AM
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Since when can we upload 12 MP images?!
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07-26-2020, 02:17 AM
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That is pretty scary to me now but 35 years ago it seemed logical to eliminate a fuse panel in a $200 B210. LOL Fuses save lives!
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07-28-2020, 03:01 PM
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No new major updates, really, just been doing some small this's and thats to the car. New valve cover gasket, moved the gauges in the interior around a bit so that I can have air conditioning on the drivers side of the car. Now I'm investigating my very fast idle (1100 rip'ms). Checking my EGR valve, vacuum leaks, fast idle valve, etc.
Also ordered parts for internal wide angle mirrors so I'm that much closer to sawing off my external ones.
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07-28-2020, 06:48 PM
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Oh right! My car started revving yesterday as I passed some kids! Now she idles at 1,500 in every gear!
I should do something about that...
I love how my to-do list grows faster than I can take care of stuff!
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07-29-2020, 01:58 PM
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Well for one thing the IAC was completely bypassed, that would account for it stalling under AC and electrical load. Reconnected it and it does function but it’s very sticky and slow to respond. The seals are all shot it seems and it’s very gummy when I took it apart so I’ll acquire a replacement. I suspect the wax motor that adjusts idle for engine temperature isn’t working either. The coolant lines that run to it get nice and hot but the engine seems to have no startup enrichment at all. I’ll keep investigating and also probably ask on the metro forum.
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