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...at the crank! not the wheel. It makes me wonder what its actually putting down. 40? |
Motivated myself to make and install the vortex generators/air tabs today.
Went with nine across the top and two on each side at the back of the car. Spent a total of $13.23 at Sears Hardware for the Alum Sheet and Silicon Caulk. Traveling into unknown territory with this...you would think that it would create more drag than less. I installed them with silicone sealant/adhesive so I can take them off if I don't see any positive results. https://www.mypicshare.com/thumbs/20070609/vzhqcadx.jpg https://www.mypicshare.com/thumbs/20070609/aiajmiva.jpg https://www.mypicshare.com/thumbs/20070609/jnbwbhgg.jpg Fashioned mine after reading some old threads, there seemed to be some discrepancy in regards to which way to mount them. I went with the pointy end of the V to the back of the air flow. Like Zpiloto did here... https://members.cox.net/zpiloto/101_0070.JPG Went a little bigger, but not quite as big as ZugyNA did here.... https://www.cpu-net.com/host/gaxir/gpics/zvgs.jpg[/QUOTE] |
They look great.
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Wow
I owned a 92 festiva mt tranny. 50 mpg wasnt a problem. heck it would get 40 mpg with your foot in the floor and the A/C on. Turbo mode was turning the A/C off. the hondas where not worth the money. and still arent IMO,,, thats why I fought hard to get mine at the prices I did. The Metros. well they just fell apart here. They where so bad the local chevy dealer sued GM and refused to sell them or the parts for them. a buddy of mine bought a metro and it was worse than a yugo. I liked the subaru Justy. I bought a 91 CVT model. It shot the worthless CVT in nothing flat. those are real junk trannys. just ask anybody that uses them in the industrial world. I really liked my festiva. My mistake was letting the wife and my girls drive it. It got women coodys and died. the bashed, banged and did there best to try to get me to kill them. word to the wise. DO NOT LET WOMEN DRIVE YOUR CAR!!!!. My wife will never drive my Civic. And I hate to drive her Accord. If I could find clean festivas that hadnt been abused or riced I would purchase them. all of them around here have been women driven or child driven in there later stages of life and look awful. but they seem to last longer than metros and cvt justy's. :) psy |
XFi, I think you did it right. I hope they work great for you.
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oh that 90 hp on my truck is at the wheels the engine makes 120 suposedly...:( but yes it is a clutchless fan. the car has no AC so it should be easy. i have an on off temperature switch from the old stock carb heater (between the car and intake to heat up the mix in dead of winter so the carb doesnt ice over) that is mounted right above the tstat. or i could always buy a variable switch or one that kicks on at a certian temp and screw that into the hole. so i could just have a wire from the battery, thru a fuse, to the temp switch then to the fan to ground. very simple circuit and prolly take les than an hour to wire up. just mounting the fan is gonan be hard:p heres somehting i could do. since huge industrial motors have large capacitors mounted to em to give them an extra boost on start up as to not cause a huge energy surge thru the plant, i could so this to a small fan motor. so the cap almost instantly charges up when the fan is off and when it kicks back on it would have that extra boost to start it so theres not much being drawn from the alternator. because i have found out after building my own kind abig motor is that it took all 7 amps from a car power supply i had it running off off yet only 3A to keep it running.(of course add some tention to it it drew more amps):D |
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VetteOwner: Is this a fact that only you know?? Pardon me, sir. I thought I saw 90 mpg. |
LOL no 90 mph...doesnt sound pretty and scares the crap outa ya but it can be done....
lol i was being sarcastic and joking around and abit suprised that from the overall size of the car and its engine/tranny config it isnt possible to get 50 mpg from factory... |
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