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GasSavers_Jack 06-02-2006 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by SVOboy
5 speed alliance!

Ya but I saw your car and it is a hell of a lot better looking than mine. I am also on the search for lightweight rims like yours.

SVOboy 06-02-2006 05:02 PM

Why thank you, the factory pearl paint only came on 90-91 crx dxs, I think the two colors made for the US market were torino red and celestial blue...

Anyway, good luck looking for the vx rims, I love mine, but you can use insight LRR tires on the HX rims, if you please.

GasSavers_Jack 06-02-2006 05:06 PM

No lie about the vx's the are hard to come by. I may just get the HF rims. I can find those for about $100 a set. Do you have a link that I can read up on the LRR tires?

SVOboy 06-02-2006 05:09 PM

I got my vx rims for 100 bucks shipped, :p

Anyway, search around the site, I'm terrible with links, dan prolly has his thread from when he swapped to hx rims and insight lrrs.

krousdb 06-03-2006 03:11 AM

Not the HF rims Jack, go for the HX with the Insight rubber. It is discussed here:

https://www.gassavers.org/showthread....hlight=potenza

GasSavers_Jack 06-03-2006 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SVOboy
I got my vx rims for 100 bucks shipped, :p

Anyway, search around the site, I'm terrible with links, dan prolly has his thread from when he swapped to hx rims and insight lrrs.

Nice! The best I have found it $300 + shipping.

GasSavers_Ryland 06-03-2006 08:48 PM

for rims try https://www.car-parts.com cheap parts, and often they are local.

krousdb 06-04-2006 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Jack
Nice! The best I have found it $300 + shipping.

I got mine on Ebay for $230 and drove an 8 hours RT to pick them up. They were worth it for me. They went cheaper than normal because they were for local pickup only.

psyshack 06-04-2006 11:19 AM

Mod's will help with the mpg. But its not the total package. Slowing down a bit more and load driving the hills with a FAS on the down side will help alot.

I dont load drive like krousdb or xcel anymore. But I do load drive. I have hills in my daily drive. I use to load drive them to the point that i would let them scrub 10 mph or better off my mph. Not anymore, maybe let them take 5 mph then top the climb and pull a 1 mile FAS.

Another thing that helps is bleeding on slight down hill runs. I have places on my drive where its ever so slightly down hill. I can ever so lightly let out of the gas and watch my speed increase and my mpg go way up on the real time readout in my ScanGauge. I can be doing 65 mph going down the hwy hit one of these areas and be at 70 mph and see a steady 60 mpg on my SG.

Hills can be intresting in the FE game. i would much rather drive them than ubber flat land. Where P&G and or bleeding are your only options to improve mpg. There just flat boring options and not worth my time or effort.

krousdb 06-04-2006 11:33 AM

Based on what you have just described, I would say that you drive exactly the way that I drive. I don't loose more than 5 MPH while climbing hills and un slight downhills I also bach off to see the FE skyrocket. On the steeper downhills I FAS. Hills are your friend for sure.

Wayne's driving is much more extreme than mine which is exactly why he will always post better numbers than I will. I can live with that.;)


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