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Jimbo picked an aftermarket muffler and shaved 3.4 seconds off his 0-55 time.
He needed to make a custom coupler and he tried to adjust some other things while repeating "I will not make aerodynamic mods and I am not building for fuel economy!"
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08-13-2023, 01:49 PM
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Jimbo made the Renault a little faster and more fuel efficient.
"At the end of the day, no matter what we do to this car, it'll never be as fast as a Geo Metro!"
He improved fuel economy from 35.5 to 40.72 MPG, although he isn’t sure why.
He improved the 0-55 time by almost a second, but it was a full second slower from 0-50, and then apparently much faster from 50-55, so he is going to keep testing.
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08-15-2023, 01:54 AM
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"At the end of the day, no matter what we do to this car, it'll never be as fast as a Geo Metro!"
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Maybe a Renault 4 or 5 could do it better?  |
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08-15-2023, 04:29 AM
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Put this motor in a Geo Metro and it wouldn't be as fast as a Geo Metro. 
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08-15-2023, 06:47 PM
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I checked AutoTempest for a Subaru 360 I don't think you can get one unless you are rich and if you are rich, why wouldn't you buy a Toyota Century instead?!
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08-20-2023, 03:01 PM
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Jimbo just keeps working on this!  I was going to write a full summary, but life, uh, found a way:
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08-23-2023, 03:16 PM
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Maybe some tuning can render it easier to at least match a Geo Metro. But I'd rather place a bet on some random 2-stroke as easier to tune to match a Geo Metro... |
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08-27-2023, 01:57 PM
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Jimbo removed 261 pounds of body panels from the Saturn and it wasn't faster at all.
He left the hubcaps stating that if a car doesn't have them, the cops look closer.
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08-27-2023, 03:20 PM
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Clickbait title, it got 84MPG
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08-28-2023, 10:19 PM
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He left the hubcaps stating that if a car doesn't have them, the cops look closer.
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Really?
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