Enjoy your project! There's someone doing a very similar thing already - you might want to check his page out for ideas and inspiration.
http://metroxfi.com/geo-metro-xfi-convertible-project-page/ ===================== From: Robert McElwee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/05/29 Thu AM 07:52:25 EDT To: Larry Alster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: miatapower List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: NPC: Geez, I just bought another car. Carfax anyone??? I think you are missing the point. I am going to trash the hell out of the car (selling it to you for $10,000 was a joke). It is a project car and is not being purchased because of gas money that it is going to save. It is being purchased as an experiment to see how weight reduction, aerodynamic changes, and driving style affects MPG. I'm thinking 70 MPG as a realistic goal. Is spending $3000 for a project car any different than when I spent $7800 for a Miata and stripped 400 pounds out of it (making it virtually worthless). Yes, me spending $3K on a project car makes about as much sense as you having 7 vehicles (or whatever you currently have). We don't do this stuff for the money, we do it for something to spend money on. Speaking of potential money savings, here is a very crude web page that I started working on a couple of weeks ago. It shows what the gas savings could be for my short trip to work. The $ savings are only on there to show it is stupid to do this if you think you are going to save money at the pump: http://www.lightweightmiata.com/mpg/mpg.htm It details a few things that I wanted to do during the project and talks about me using the blue '91 Miata for testing. for the project. That went out the window when I found this Geo (but you will see that a 70 MPG Geo was always the goal). But the Miata is sitting outside right now with a tank full of 87 octane that I will probably drain out and put in the lawnmower. I was hours away from ripping the supercharger off of it when I found the Geo on Ebay. It is not on the website but for the record, after two weeks of driving the Miata out of boost and 45 MPH vs 65 MPH I got a whopping 3.88 extra MPG (up to 23.88 MPG vs my regular 20 MPG). On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Larry Alster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can fix it up all you want your not selling it to me for 10kand anyone that pays 10k for it is an idiot. The amount of time and miles you need to drive it to actually makea difference in saving money over a car getting 20-30 MPG isn't going tosave back the ridiculous cost of the car. And Robert, does it really make sense for you to spend 4.5k to geta high mileage car to drive to work when you work less than 15 minutes fromhome and have no commuter traffic to deal with on the way? Larry _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
