What have you done to your 3rd Gen today?
November-5th-2007, 09:43 AM
#2297
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trip odometer is in miles, speedo is in km/h 
it makes life interesting
I fixed the first post with that pic because apparently if you change the title of a photo on flickr the url changes.
I was shocked when I was at 395+ miles and the gas light wasn't on. It came on shortly after that photo at 377 for a few miles but then went off and stayed off. I was thinking maybe the light died but it's one of the strange few LEDs on the instrument cluster. Whatever I'm still happy, I get way better gas mileage than myself and the EPA could stock --then again, the costs of achieving that far outweigh the money saved. Basically header + catted midpipe + racing beat catback + cai + mp3 ecu + fs-ze cams would yield the same figures (I know I hit 36mpg on a few highway trips before I was turboed, so that's always my benchmark to make sure the car is still nice and economical).
it makes life interesting
I fixed the first post with that pic because apparently if you change the title of a photo on flickr the url changes.
I was shocked when I was at 395+ miles and the gas light wasn't on. It came on shortly after that photo at 377 for a few miles but then went off and stayed off. I was thinking maybe the light died but it's one of the strange few LEDs on the instrument cluster. Whatever I'm still happy, I get way better gas mileage than myself and the EPA could stock
--then again, the costs of achieving that far outweigh the money saved. Basically header + catted midpipe + racing beat catback + cai + mp3 ecu + fs-ze cams would yield the same figures (I know I hit 36mpg on a few highway trips before I was turboed, so that's always my benchmark to make sure the car is still nice and economical).
Last edited by _Kansei_; November-5th-2007 at 09:47 AM.
November-5th-2007, 10:26 AM
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November-5th-2007, 01:50 PM
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Why would I need to.. check anything? The odometer and trip odometer are my originals, to keep everything nice and legal. The speedo still has mph on it, as you can see from the picture.
November-5th-2007, 02:36 PM
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Because I really like the metric system and it's one of many non-U.S. spec parts on my car?
.. and because I had the white-faced (not silver like my original) gauges and wanted to go back to silver and these were the only ones I could find, the price was great, and it was an excuse to drive to Canada?
Plus, it's easier to read mph on the Canadian gauge cluster (the euro gauge cluster would have km/h and NO mph indicator) than it is to read km/h on the U.S. gauge cluster. I'm in Canada a lot so it's a worthwhile switch.
.. and because I had the white-faced (not silver like my original) gauges and wanted to go back to silver and these were the only ones I could find, the price was great, and it was an excuse to drive to Canada?
Plus, it's easier to read mph on the Canadian gauge cluster (the euro gauge cluster would have km/h and NO mph indicator) than it is to read km/h on the U.S. gauge cluster. I'm in Canada a lot so it's a worthwhile switch.
November-5th-2007, 02:59 PM
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Metric rocks. Having a Russian advisor, a Korean wife, and a career in science, almost no one around me knows what the hell an inch, a pound, or degree Fahrenheit is (without pausing to do the conversion). So I was kinda forced to convert.
Now it's base 10 FTW.
Now it's base 10 FTW.
November-5th-2007, 03:25 PM
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Maybe I'm spying on the canucks 
America.. f yea!
did I just say that? Funny what spending the weekend in the south (Kansei definition of the south, re: this map) will do to ya :P
brb buying some guns and a gun rack
I don't know about you guys, but I know in grade school and college I never learned the U.S. measurement system or used it for anything. Everything was always metric. It's like they updated the schools, colleges, textbooks, and scientific research to the Metric system decades ago but haven't gotten around to finishing the job yet. My dad is a carbide toolmaker and engineer and it's hell because they have to do both. When he's working on engineering parts for one car company, it's gotta be Metric, and then for another project it's gotta be Imperial. For him, since he's old, doing anything with the metric system is still just conversions for him, he still thinks in the U.S. system and probably always will.
Car stuff (mph, mpg, 0-60, horsepower, ft lbs, etc) is the only place in my life that stuff is in the U.S. system for me and I don't like it. I still don't get why we're still doing stuff in the U.S. system.. I know plenty of 'good ol' US cars are built with metric toolings (GM has been doing it since the mid 80s.. dunno if everything is metric but the majority is).. is the conversion to metric just waiting on the conscience of the people? I know in Canada older people know and somewhat still use the imperial system but the younger generations know it less and less. Why are we behind?
On topic:
I calculated my return trip gas mileage. 34.7mpg or 6.78 l/100km. Not nearly as bad as I thought. w00t 42psi front 40 rear (I hate you imperial measurements for everything car-related!!) and going just a hair above the speed limit
did I just say that? Funny what spending the weekend in the south (Kansei definition of the south, re: this map) will do to ya :P
brb buying some guns and a gun rack
I don't know about you guys, but I know in grade school and college I never learned the U.S. measurement system or used it for anything. Everything was always metric. It's like they updated the schools, colleges, textbooks, and scientific research to the Metric system decades ago but haven't gotten around to finishing the job yet. My dad is a carbide toolmaker and engineer and it's hell because they have to do both. When he's working on engineering parts for one car company, it's gotta be Metric, and then for another project it's gotta be Imperial. For him, since he's old, doing anything with the metric system is still just conversions for him, he still thinks in the U.S. system and probably always will.
Car stuff (mph, mpg, 0-60, horsepower, ft lbs, etc) is the only place in my life that stuff is in the U.S. system for me and I don't like it. I still don't get why we're still doing stuff in the U.S. system.. I know plenty of 'good ol' US cars are built with metric toolings (GM has been doing it since the mid 80s.. dunno if everything is metric but the majority is).. is the conversion to metric just waiting on the conscience of the people? I know in Canada older people know and somewhat still use the imperial system but the younger generations know it less and less. Why are we behind?
On topic:
I calculated my return trip gas mileage. 34.7mpg or 6.78 l/100km. Not nearly as bad as I thought. w00t 42psi front 40 rear (I hate you imperial measurements for everything car-related!!) and going just a hair above the speed limit
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November-5th-2007, 03:49 PM
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Ive had one trip where I hit 370+ and didnt have the low gas light on, I was worried my gas gauge died(so filled up and still had about a gallon) since its very rare for me to get that good of mileage between my driving and the fact that its near impossible to make any long trips without hitting traffic of one cause or another to turn off my cruise control. Darn my angry driving
November-5th-2007, 05:49 PM
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Yeah I lucked out on that one. 
Before and after I installed my springs I was measuring the wheel gap with an English-unit tape measurer. I tend to be perhaps a little obsessively quantitative, but trying to figure out how many 64ths of an inch I'd measured was just plain ridiculous.
Before and after I installed my springs I was measuring the wheel gap with an English-unit tape measurer. I tend to be perhaps a little obsessively quantitative, but trying to figure out how many 64ths of an inch I'd measured was just plain ridiculous.