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My first car was a 1990 Geo Metro 2 door (the EFI one). Acceleration was about as fast as a squirrel hoards nuts. You really had to plan your passing maneuvers in advance! Tweaking ignition timing forward by a few degrees, by feel only, made a pretty big difference though, but fuel economy went...

Still here too. Next time you guys organize a GTG let me know. My restaurant parking lot is huge, and I can host a daytime gathering.

The roads are so bad it breaks your springs!??

There are a few VIN code lookup sites that will give the paint code too.

This is what I think also. A small, grid-independent PV array to run a heat pump mini split (combo AC/heater) combined with lots of thermal mass to hold the cold or heat. But it would very much depend on an individual home's architecture and layout. I've been reducing my heating/cooling bills...

Welcome to the club; sorry you've been Mongled already. Did you have a shop check out the system yet? What setting work?

The M57 motor is proven, strong, and stout as can be. But the twin turbo control system is total garbage. They really needed to specify turbos with position feedback, like many other state of the art turbo cars. They cheaped out.

We have historical threads where this is discussed in detail. Look for the name tdimeister.

Yes, take this to vendor accountability thread where it belongs.

Nah, I think he should swap an ALH into a lifted Super Beetle on off-road tires.

Yes, this. For goodness sake, people make waaaay WAAAY tooo much of a big deal about such an inconsequential thing. EGR's clog up about once a DECADE now. Goodness, if you put 1/100th of this effort in just MAINTAINING THE CAR, you'd be way happier with it. Worry less. Drive more.

Many tunes do in fact increase fuel economy at the expense of slightly more NOx emissions. When requesting a tune, let them know your desired attributes & goals.

I guarantee if you get granular enough to build a spreadsheet like I did, it does. It dramatically increased warmup times in cool weather. That costs FE, Might not matter if all you do is mostly longish drives, but for the other 80% of people, it's a freaking huge effect.

Restore your EGR to full factory-level OEM functioning. It's killing your winter FE in the PNW. I know. Been there, done that. It's costing you at least 3-8 mpg in winter. Stupid stupid stupid. Next, detune your right foot. A tune will improve fun factor and will typically HELP fuel economy a...

Thank you. Not everything is so black & white. So tired of being pushed into corners of false dichotomies myself. Let's just pick the best we can, even if it's a mish-mash of different ideas.

Was a pleasure meeting you in person. Had to stop myself from dog-napping Elsa. What a beautiful and excellent pup!

Only Canuckistanians should post in this thread from now on. Everyone who needed to blow off steam has. Now stop it and let the weird Canucks get back to their Moose petting or whatever it is they do.

Ibid, that would be me. Club members are huge cheapskates. I've never seen any Tdi sell here unless it was a special unicorn, or a jalopy practically given away.

Thank you for the clarification. My house has 2 heat pump AC's. One is older with actual SEER values probably around 9.5-11 at best (it's 25 years old but still works). As it has aged, I'd guess that the heat pump's actual COP has probably decayed too (the heat exchangers get clogged with hair...

Missed the discussion for awhile, but yes, if Indigo is getting rid of the pool, definitely install in-ground heat pump. At that COP it's a no-brainer. Saw the nwdriver claim " A heat pump provides ~3kWh of heat per kWh of electricity"--it's only true at optimal temperatures.