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Hello,

New guy on the forum.

Driving a '05 Honda Insight 5-speed for a year now.

Mods: WAI, Mobil 1 0W-20, tires pumped to 55psig, extended engine bay belly aero-cover, ScanGuage.

Working on improving my daily commute fuel economy - so far I have averaged 74LMPG.


Wife's car - '99 Acura TL. Looking for ideas to improve it.
So far: Tires pumped to 44psig, ScanGuage.
Future plans: aero belly pan, lowering kit, educate the driver.

Looks like there's lots of info to read up on here.

Regards

Sweet, another one with the 99 TL. What mileage are you getting? Rick (rh77) might like to know if you've been able to get anything out of the thingy!

Got any pictures of the insight?

What what, new gas log killer!

Alsoooooo, welcome!

I was wondering when a insight owner was going to register and get the #1 gaslog spot. Now we need someone with a moped to beat that.

The best part is where you ask: "Where the mods, at, y0?"

I was wondering when a insight owner was going to register and get the #1 gaslog spot. Now we need someone with a moped to beat that.


I got my moped out today, switching it to synthetic fluids tomarow, not sure on milage with it yet, but my honda cb100 gets atleast 80mpg, it drips more then it burns.

I'm thinking that the insight could benifit from a better air filter (new micro fiber filters from amsoil? don't get a K&N unless you want to fill your engine with fine engine killing grit) LED marker lights might help if you drive at night much (or have day time running lights), removing your A/C if you have it.

I think the insight sees the most of its benefits from driving techniques and route. They're 100mpg+ vehicles under the right conditions. Honda really went all out designing them, :)

Nice to see a familiar sig!

What what, new gas log killer!

Arghhhh! When it rains, it pours. :)

Nice to see a familiar sig!

Is this someone you are already knowing? Or just another kool kat from GH?

GH and CleanMPG mehtinks.

Ah, that ever present cleanmpg, bane of our existence, :p

Bane? Why?

Haha, I'm just kidding. Just got the button, thanks a lot! I think I might slap this in a friend's car cuz her neon needs a bit of bling.

The contact block on the back has two connection points. One normally open (NO) and one normally closed (NC). For a starter switch, of course you would use the normally open. For a kill switch, you would use the normally closed contacts.

Have fun! I just posted a pic of my new grille block in the crazy coroplast DIY.

Kill switch time!!! I wonder where I can mount it that it's hugeness isn't an issue.

I would paint the button red and stencil "Engine Kill" on it, like the S2000 "Engine Start. Maybe mount it in your shifter console on the drivers side near your leg.

I'm thinking have it near the wheel since that's where my hands are when I'm getting ready to kill.

OK, last night I entered over a years worth of info from the Insight into the Gaslog.

Then I noticed that my car holds all of the top ten tanks slots.
D'oh, I don't want to hog the whole thing.

Solutions:

1. Dump everything
2. Only post my last five tanks
3. Only post the most recent tank

Comments wanted.

Regards,

I talked to matt about this last night, since you are the new gaslog killer. Anyway, the way it'll be is that bikes, hybrids, and regular old crap cars will all have different lists. Which makes sense to me.

what about the gas guzzlers too??

I think that for the time being the best set up is these three, and mehbe in the future if we get a good diesel contingent the diesels might get broken off.

Hey and welcome!

My wife drives our '99 TL -- as you know we lucked out with getting the 4-speed automatic and its reliability.

We have about 130K miles on it, and the Catalytic Converter needs replaced, so all of my experiments have yielded zero improvement (except tire over-inflation).

* Of course, start there, pump up the tires.
* Next, if you don't mind the sound at VTEC, take out the air silencer -- it's extra weight and frankly is just an inhibiting muffler for the intake.
* Clean the carbon out -- use a product like "Sea Foam" or AutoRx. I've used Sea Foam on the TL -- it's basically dumped into the vacuum brake booster line into the intake (Caution: it creates lots of white smoke, but that's just the carbon burning off and the chemical). Just follow the instructions for intake cleaning. Then go out and run 'er pretty good. It'll look like you threw a rod with all the smoke, but that goes away after a few miles.
* After the Intake is clean, install a PCV catch device to collect the gunk that probably created the problem in the first place. A good DIY: http://www.gassavers.org/article/pcv_catch_can_keeps_your_engine_clean_which_helps_ gas_mileage_in_the_long_run.html If you need to find the PCV valve, let me know. I can provide pictures (several covers and parts need to be removed to get in there -- I would recommend replacing the PCV line with a longer one instead of splicing and inserting the device, because it's a tight corner, and could get crimped). I've used this on our Integra, and it has collected several ounces of gunk.
* I subsribe to the notion that higher Intake Air Temps yield better economy. The beauty of the TL is that it has a little heater under the air filter. Basically, there's a trap door that's probably opened at cold starts to get warm air in the intake to reduce emissions (it has coolant line that runs to a little radiator-like device). The trap-door can simply be forced open by using a long screw through the door into the plastic cover to force air to come through the radiator all the time -- then you've got an easy HAI. Make sure you use Premium Fuel here, or else you may get pinging, especially at VTEC or at the VTEC transition on RPM decrease.
* Otherwise, bolder mods could be to lower drag, some claim synthetic fluid (transmission, oil, PS fluid, etc.) reduce friction, replace the 02 sensors (depending on mileage), or spark plug mods.
* Lastly, driving style. I always use the auto-stick to keep the RPMs low (but I just got a Scan Guage to verify my theory on that) -- make sure the load on the tranny is low at shift, so time the shift and lift the throttle slightly so the tranny doesn't get toasted (i.e. don't floor it at low RPM and keep shifting it into 4th when it will let you, or else I can only imagine the torque it's dealing with)

Otherwise, I haven't messed with our TL a whole lot, but let us know if anything works out.

RH77

I think that for the time being the best set up is these three, and mehbe in the future if we get a good diesel contingent the diesels might get broken off.

Excellent. I will do motorcycles, regular cars, and hybrids soon (today maybe?). In the future we can make a section for trucks, diesel, etc.