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Natexlh1000
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 01:32 pm: | 
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My Honda FIT has a compression of 10.4:1
It gets just under 40 MPG on 87 octane gas.
I can tell if there's Ethanol in the gas if I get less than 37 MPG. |
Just_ziptab
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 06:28 pm: |
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I also had A Fiat....a 1970 850 Sport Spider convertible. I worked at a station and the boss gave me $1.50 in gas a day(three gallons) for my commute..........90 miles from home to college to work to home. I couldn't burn it all and had to cruise around at night to get rid of it............ |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 06:43 pm: |
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Weren't those little 850 Spyders fun though? It had the coolest dash of any car that I have ever had. Kinda like airplane stuff with the toggle switches and lights. I also remember that they had the coolest of name badges, paralleling the likes of Ferrari.
I had bought two of them, one low mileage, running very well, and rusted in half. The other one was in a minor wreck and had sat long enough to seize the engine. One had the pop off hard top and the other was the rag top.
It was the simplest engine swap. I think it only weighed about eighty lbs! Much lighter than a VW engine of that era. |
Just_ziptab
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 10:39 pm: |
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Fun indeed. Nobody could catch me on slippery streets. Mine had a centrifical oil filter just like my 175 Honda. Fouled a plug once and the mileage dropped to something like 1/2 of normal. |
Ryker77
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 12:00 pm: |
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"My Honda FIT has a compression of 10.4:1
It gets just under 40 MPG on 87 octane gas. "
My Honda Civic also has I think a 10.5:1 compression and I get 32-40mpg. The question is.
However look at the Civic Si engine that has 11:1 compression. Still a 2.0l engine but gets way less MPG.
So if higher compression was better. Then why wouldn't a Fit or Civic be running higher compression and getting even better MPG. I doubt that the manufactor would choose to design the engine to get lower MPG, when it could get better. I'd pay .30 cents more per gallon to get better 10%MPG. It would have to be above 10% to justify the cost. |
Kuuud
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 09:45 am: |
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http://magazine.windingroad.com/windingroad/200802 ebay/?folio=27&EMC-DecEBAY=&attr=innovating-china
Interesting article on the future of gas-powered transportation. |
