so I'm not the only freak?

[GasSavers_Ryland]

Hello, my name is Ryland and I'm an alcoholic... no wait, wrong forum, I like going great distances on very little gas, my current most used vehicle is a 1992 civic vx with 219,100 miles, I've been slowly putting it back to stock, and catching it up on matence befor I start tweeking it, it seems to be in good mecanical shape but is still only getting 40mpg.
I started out with bicycles, then saw this sweet local competition where highschool kids made single person cars and tryed to get the best mileage, so the next year I entered with a friend of mine, got 72mpg, 2nd to last, the next year we got 245mpg, 4th place, now I'm to old to enter, and my vehicle is half finished, and I'm moving on to other things waiting for someone to pass it on to.
at some point I got a Honda cl160 motorcycle that was sized and beatup, learned how engines work, and got it working pretty good without spending any money, used it as my only motorized transit for a few years, averaged 74mpg.
a few years latter I aquired a sweet 1984 civic hatchback, after close to a year of useing it as a work vehicle (tools, coworker, camping junk, it was never empty) I averaged 42.2mpg over the entire time I owned it (15,000 miles) it was totaled just around the time I was going to start tweeking it, around that same time I realized that Honda had been making cars for the last 20+ years that got 50mpg or better, so a few months latter I found my CRX HF on Ebay... pretty rough, no compression, took alot of work to get it useable, and a good engine still sits in the shed waiting to be droped in (people for some reason think it;'s a good idea to rip perfectly good HF engines out, and swap in bigger engiens... so good stock engines are free for the picking!) I needed something that didn't use as much oil, and could handle a 3rd passenger, so I found this civic VX, and well... here I am.

things that are on my civic vx todo list:
get 55+mpg... of course but to do that I need to:
block off the unused part of my grill.
install new vaccum lines (VW cloth covered rubber lines)
install new PCV lines, and valve. (tomarow)
find out if honda insight drums will fit (someone has them on their crx, and the civic takes the same size, yes??)
finish removing A/C.
replace all running lights with LED's
clean/replace all grounding straps.
replace lead acid battery with something more... modern.
and I'm sure alot of other things.

--Ryland