New guy in an Isuzu
 

Just wanted to introduce myself, the names Jeremy. I'm somewhat of an Isuzu geek. I own several Troopers some running, some not. While it's probably not a popular choice for a vehicle to ecomod, I need the towing ability. I frequently tow a 7x14 enclosed dual axle trailer with some hefty weight in her. I drive around 80-90 miles daily on my commute to work, 5 days a week. I would love to get my hands on an early 80's Isuzu diesel (truck preferably) for the fuel savings. I just can't justify spending extra funds for another vehicle right now (cost of vehicle + cost of ownership). I do have plans for my '94 trooper and hope to get it somewhere between 25-30 mpg....pipe dream, maybe. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Here's a pic of a few of my Troopers, the red one is my '94 aka theBeater

http://i932.photobucket.com/albums/a...psbf28bf4a.jpg

I've had many isuzus. Still have a truck, just got rid of my trooper and my first driving vehicle was a truck.

First vehicle I ever owned was a 90 Isuzu Trooper II bought used in 96, still have it. It's my pride and joy, but is nowhere close to being fuel efficient, as she's built for off-roading. The first vehicle I drove was my parents 82 Honda Accord for about 6 months, now that car was amazing on fuel :D

Here's a pic of my '90
http://i932.photobucket.com/albums/a...112_141415.jpg

forgot to mention I've got a garage on Fuelly under foytiX. I've noticed some Fuelly bars in some signature bars on here, how are you guys doing that?

Welcome. I drive an Isuzu NPR - "Shaky" - at work. My wife used to have an Impulse and enjoyed it until it got creamed by a breakaway truck tire.

Those NPRs are tough. Shaky is 20 years old this year, looks like hot buttered hell but still runs. I guess the weakest part on him is the liftgate, an aftermarket item.

LOL, "shaky" I can only imagine why it has this nickname being a NPR. Impulses are hard to come by now a days. Would love to get my hands on a clean, low mileage, rust free RS model.....that's another pipe dream though lol.

Welcome Jeremy! Here is a post on adding the ecomodder fuel bar to your sig: http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ure-20941.html; adding the Fuelly bar should follow a similar path (I don't have a Fuelly acct so not sure what the steps are to get the bar image & URL from over there).

Thanks, I like the looks of the ecomodder dash better. Wahoo 5th post, now I can add pics and my dash. I'll post some up when I get home.

Hi I also have a 88 trooper 2, I put a 2.3 head on top of a 2.6 to raise compression and use 1/2e 85 and gas. I wan't able to get a tank thru it my MANUAL fuel pump went out (go figure) I was getting good power and saving about 29 cents a gallon on a fill up. I was on Isuzu planet , I bet you are too. Just wanted to say HI

Thanks "demidestructo". That 2.3 head sounds sweet, I remember looking into that and being interested. Like a lot of other ideas got shuffled out of my head LOL. Were you able to get the fuel pump fixed (i know that's not a fun job). I had a write up on "the planet" about my experience with it, although it was more about a 3" fuel tank lift to match the body lift.

No I haven't fixed the fuel pump yet , it should be an easy job since I just had it all apart. I converted from fuel injection because of there problems and not wanting to change the electric fuel pump all the time. Looks like your doing great with mpg for your troop!

How ironic on the fuel pump issue, but at least it'll be easy to change. Thanks for the good words on the Trooper, her #'s would be so much higher (90 day avg)if I didn't pull those big trailers sometimes LOL. Got just a hair under 23 mpg this last tank :)

Maybe you could use one of your non-running Troopers as a guinea pig for some ecomodding projects, such as a Diesel swap :D

I would love to do a diesel swap, not enough time or money though LOL.