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Yeah, well, I'm here, I guess, finally, blah blah blah, it's been a bad day so don't expect too much.

My name is ben jones, I drive a 91 crx dx auto, I'm currently in the process of an engine and auto to manual swap with the most efficient components I can procure at the time. Hopefully it will happen over memioral day weekend. I'd post a link to my build but I feel like gassavers.org is off limits around here for now so I'll just leave that be.

In this weather I get 40mpg with the car, which I guess is okay, but is mainly limited by it's automatic nature. I coast tons and do some engine off, but it's difficult in my car and in my area where lights are camera activated and I have no hills to coast down, plus the automatic transmission in my car (far from what the newer ones are) limits coasting severely.

Hopefully when I get the work I want done I will be starting around 60 mpg, and be able to teach myself to get 70mpg with the help of a superMID I got with dan's help. I will be meeting him sometime in the future, so I certainly plan on letting him do what he can with the car and hopefully having me teach me all of his tricks, because I think in most cases driving technique is more important than modifications, though certainly in my case with my bad base and very available options modifications will probably account for more.

I've been a long time honda-techer, but when I saw matt timion sign up there we started talking and rebeled from it as a bad way to get FE information and we plotted gs over the summer and he actually did it (I was just talking out my ass at the time), so since then I have been in both places, trying to learn. I'd love to learn what I can from everyone here too.

Please don't hate me.

Ben, gassaves is not off-limits. If you find a link on your site that is intersting post here so we can come over and check it out.

I think there will be a common base of members between our sites as they grow. I don't know if you have seen it but pretty much since day one we have had a link to your site as a valued resource.

There is no hate here.

I'm scared though, because I feel like the only one that likes to sit in the driveway and spill stuff and get nasty, my hands have been grease-flavored for three weeks, can't even get them clean.

Mehbe as I feel more comfortable I'll post links to my build, my heart and soul, my bad substitute for someone to love.

Hi Ben:

___It is great to hear from you. Dan sort of brought me up to date during our ride across the country last week and he has great admiration for your skills as an engine enthusiast as well as your focus on school. I hope you let everyone here know what school you will be attending because I highly doubt a young automobile enthusiast of your caliber has ever seen let alone walked the halls of that place!

___And welcome to CleanMPG. Don’t let the Compaq thing get to you as that is my problem, not yours. You have a long road of studies ahead so don’t even consider issues of web site ops wrecking your day. There are enough of us around to make sure those kinds of items will be nothing but a distant memory in short order …

___About the dirty hands thing … I will post a pic of my landscape gear sometime. My hands may not necessarily be covered with the black mess variety unless I am doing maintenance but I have been known to come home with a slight need to be sprayed down from head to toe in the drive before the wife let’s me step one foot into the house :D

___Finally, don’t worry about anyone hating anybody here! I plan on keeping that kind of non-sense to a minimum ;)

___Good Luck and welcome.

___Wayne

Well, I'm going to Dartmouth, if anyone cares, since you bring it up (next year I begin).

Thanks a lot, Dan's the best, I had a long conversation with my employer (I assist a woman at a nursing home, employed by her daughter) who drives a prius about dan, his techniques, la la la. She's heard of you all and your marathon, and she also had read about the tour de sol, which I told her was won and all that, she was very impressed, as am I still.

Impressed and jealous, you two are nuts.

Hi SVOboy,

I have a past, so I don't hold the past against anyone if they turn from it.

I've learned some hard lessons on the net. Sometimes you can get away with murder, sometimes you can be banned for....nothing. :(

I put nearly 250,000 miles on a 1988 CRX HF (hypermiler version) over twelve years. A lot of the time, I drove it as if it were a CRX Si (pocket rocket version). Add to that, a near meltdown right after a tune up four years before it's death and it held up very well. I lost about a third of it's power after that ill-advised tune-up.

I know about your ban. I saw it one GH and pm'd dan about it and he talked to you (i think) and gave me the run down.

Don't get me started on 88-00 honda's, I know more stuff than I want to, especially about the crxs, if you want I'll read you off stats for everything and give you a dissected picture of what makes them different, :p

Hehe, poor HFs, I wish I could've found one. Soon enough it'll be better than an hf though

That GH situation was letting trollish activity go way too long, then temp ban me along with the one responsible for the trouble. {note: that's all I'll say publically}

The rpms on the CRX HF seemed low. Going from a standstill to first gear, it seems almost impossible not to lug...

Yes, they are very low, which is why I chose that tranny for my build. On my project thread on gs I build a table of the rpms/gear/speed, :)

Well, I'm going to Dartmouth, if anyone cares, since you bring it up (next year I begin).

Thanks a lot, Dan's the best, I had a long conversation with my employer (I assist a woman at a nursing home, employed by her daughter) who drives a prius about dan, his techniques, la la la. She's heard of you all and your marathon, and she also had read about the tour de sol, which I told her was won and all that, she was very impressed, as am I still.

Impressed and jealous, you two are nuts.

Blush:o


Well Ben, If you aren't gonna post a link to your swap then I will. I especially like the code name KDA. It inspires me to work harder, and thats the whole point, right? Just one question though... what does I33t mean?

http://www.gassavers.org/showthread.php?t=911%20target=_blank

l33t speak, as in leet speak, as in elite, is a mild form of encryption used by computer nerds to make the things they 5@y 707@||y |_||\|R3@|]@b|3!

Anyway, blah blah blah.

Welcome!

Did I read at GS that you're headed to Dartmouth? Good stuff. The intangibles you pick up there (read: networking opportunitites) can be priceless or worthless, depending on how you leverage them in life.

GS is not offlimits at all. We want to make sure things remain civil and adult here, just like the environment you're about to enter in August. There's something to be said for maintaining civil, well-spoken discourse between parties of different opinion, after all. Diplomacy works. Talking trash doesn't work here, for anyone- we came here to get away from it at a few other places (not GS in particular) to be able to simply talk normally about improving fuel economy, alt fuels, and whatnot.

Lots of us here would love to learn more about the tech side- lots of us are engineers or scientists, but not necessarily well-versed under the hood beyond the basics of fluids, rolling resistance, drag. Your input is definitely needed!

Have fun-

Hi, well, you might've read about dartmouth in this thread, I don't particularly like to advertise it, but if I'm poked about it I guess honesty takes over...

I'll do my best to talk theory, I'll have some sort of writing when I'm do my swap about flow characteristics and whatnot. Unfortunately I don't know enough diff eq to get yacking about it mathematically, :p

No theory needed; plain regular is fine. :) It does get hard to decipher some of your posts between the 'yo' and other random street/garage terminology, but the information is all still there.

But you do know what a DE is, so you're wayyy ahead of the pack to begin with! Xcel is very right- a person who is book smart and good with their hands (and not afraid to get dirty) is a rare individual. Even better when they can roll around and between groups seamlessly, shifting gears to keep the 'audience' in mind.

At my lab we've got tons of grad students. Guess which ones get known and trusted (therefore graduate) most quickly? The ones getting dirty in the lab, breaking and fixing stuff. Theory work is important too (and they need to be able to do that), but the physical results are what matter in the end. Good empirical results are a slam-dunk for a thesis defense; good theoretical work is a shot in the dark. The prettyboys who sit with their MATLAB code all day long seem to languish around longer...

I love MATLAB (math major to be...)

Anyway, I had a talk with someone about the yo last night, I like to make myself sound less intelligent than I might be, just because that's how I am.

What the heck is a DE? I'm bad with acyonyms, :p

I love MATLAB (math major to be...)

Anyway, I had a talk with someone about the yo last night, I like to make myself sound less intelligent than I might be, just because that's how I am.

What the heck is a DE? I'm bad with acyonyms, :p

I understand your thought there. Sometimes it seems that you need to, in order to be accepted or even listened to at all in certain circles. But that sort of thing becomes less and less important very quickly, and becomes a handicap if you present yourself the wrong way at the wrong time. Especially in the circles you'll soon be moving in.

In the end, life is much happier when you stick with people that take at (and expect to see you at) face value. I've tried other skins for the same reasons you have, and they never fit well after awhile.

Being a chameleon is a useful tool, as long as you remember the base color to always come back to!

(DE = differential equation, difficult equation, d[f(x)] / dx = Kf(x), ...)

Ohh, DE, I like to say diffy q because I'm a dork like that.

Anyway, I don't say yo to fit in, it's just part of my self abuse, I don't care much about fitting in, navigating the social ladder, networking, or any of that. I want to be a teacher and a good person, and I could do that in any number of ways that doesn't involve artificiality I chalk up to lying.

Most people who meet me think I'm odd, but I'm honest, I won't break people in with me, I am who I am and you're going to hear my oddest thoughts no matter how long I've known you, :p

Diffy q first term next year! I'm excited. I need to brush up on my triple integrals and stoke's theorem, :)