Questionable modifications: pictures inside!

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I don't find that black car all that bad to be honest.. just paint it one color, and fix the fitting on the bodykit..
 
Fluffy :odd:

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Me-OW! ;)

I wonder if you have to vacuum it instead of washing it...
Send your car to the dry cleaners...
I need to give my car a perm...
Shave your car in the morning...
 
Jim Prower
All the same, you don't drive on the sidewalls, even five feet. He's asking for an irreparable flat...possibly sump damage, definitely rim damage, too.

Sidewalls aren't tread. You can't drive on 'em.
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Exactly. You lift the hydraulics and the car can drive at a normal height. In that picture the car is parked.
 
First, take a look at THIS..

So, he has Volvo 240 2.3 wagon with automatic transmission, and what does this bloke do?

look at these.. He tries to turn the world's least aerodynamic shape into a Prius! flat floorpanel, "spoilers", front fascia lid, hubcaps..

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the amount of LOL that followed my discovery still hurts my stomach and face..
 
It's all pretty clever actually. Maybe he's a hypermiler. Those people do that sort of stuff all the time. You'd be surprised how well some of it works.

EDIT: Judging by the "MPG" sticker on there I'd suggest he's doing what he can with that brick. Sounds fun to me. And I love the front air dam, it looks like it would actually work on the track.
 
Keef
It's all pretty clever actually. Maybe he's a hypermiler. Those people do that sort of stuff all the time. You'd be surprised how well some of it works.

EDIT: Judging by the "MPG" sticker on there I'd suggest he's doing what he can with that brick. Sounds fun to me.
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and he's doing it wrong. first: instead of making the car lighter, he added weight. second: he has an old 3-speed automatic.. and he expects it to turn into a Prius with a bit of ducktape and wood? Greycap achieves 30mpg with his stock 240 wagon.. it's manual, and he drives like old lady, but still.. it has same engine too.
 
Keef
It's all pretty clever actually. Maybe he's a hypermiler. Those people do that sort of stuff all the time. You'd be surprised how well some of it works.

EDIT: Judging by the "MPG" sticker on there I'd suggest he's doing what he can with that brick. Sounds fun to me. And I love the front air dam, it looks like it would actually work on the track.
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The really fun thing in it is that I drive a totally stock 240 estate which does a very easy 30 mpg on the highway compared to the 26 mpg of that monstrosity. I can probably drive mine to 26 mpg in the city if I try enough. Makes me wonder if the stuff really works at all...

Me? Driving like an old lady? You should have been in the car that August night when I was in a bit of a hurry to get home through the twisty backroads! And that "special stage" is included in the 30 mpg figure. If I drove like an old lady the figure would be closer to 33 mpg - been there, done that.
 
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Greycap
The really fun thing in it is that I drive a totally stock 240 estate which does a very easy 30 mpg on the highway compared to the 26 mpg of that monstrosity. I can probably drive mine to 26 mpg in the city if I try enough. Makes me wonder if the stuff really works at all...
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Those 26 MPG are US gallons, boy! So he's actually doing about 31mpg.

And Leo, I don't see how he's really "adding weight". All that stuff is coroplast. It probably only weighs a couple of kilogrammes altogether.

I'm actually on that ecomodder forum myself. I don't post much and indeed I've recently swapped a 45mpg (proven) car for a 36mpg (claimed) one, but they have a useful tool which plots your MPG over every fill. This was the one for my car (again, US gallons - 38.23 lifetime is about 45mpg imperial):

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The website isn't about outright MPG, it's about getting the most from what you have. Some members have big V8 pickups that do 15mpg, but if they manage to get a regular 16mpg out of it, then that's an improvement of 9%. If someone with a Prius doing 50mpg starts getting 51mpg, then that's only a couple of percent improvement. Who is really doing the better job of saving fuel? (and money - if you're getting 9% better fuel economy than you were that's quite a bit of money saved over a year).

And at the end of the day, it's not all completely pointless, unlike the ricers with enormous spoilers or stupid graphics.
 
homeforsummer
Those 26 MPG are US gallons, boy! So he's actually doing about 31mpg.

And Leo, I don't see how he's really "adding weight". All that stuff is coroplast. It probably only weighs a couple of kilogrammes altogether.

And at the end of the day, it's not all completely pointless, unlike the ricers with enormous spoilers or stupid graphics.
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Aluminum might be light, but plywood is not. and plastic, while often associated with lightness.. well, I'd almost take properly done glassfiber over that. His ride quality has also suffered a great deal, I can guarantee that.. your MX-5 is probably comfortable compared to that Volvo.
 
I agree, his ride is probably a little hard with 50psi tyres but most of the roads in the States that I drove on were like billiard tables so perhaps it matters less to him than it does to us! Also, steel wheels absorb energy much better than alloys do. Not to mention the suspension is pretty blancmange-like anyway.

It's not full-on plasic either. You know corrugated cardboard? Coroplast is like that, but made from plastic. So it's essentially mostly air, so it's very light, which is why all the ecomodders use it. And on 1.5+ tonnes of Volvo it's not going to make a blind bit of difference weight-wise.

And plywood isn't that heavy. Have you ever opened a plywood door in your home compared to a hardwood door? One of plywood's defining characteristics is it's lightness.

Incidentally, have you seen how much that guy is getting over the EPA ratings? He's averaging 7mpg imperial better than EPA, which must be about 20% better. Not too shabby, you have to admit.
 
homeforsummer
I agree, his ride is probably a little hard with 50psi tyres but most of the roads in the States that I drove on were like billiard tables so perhaps it matters less to him than it does to us! Also, steel wheels absorb energy much better than alloys do. Not to mention the suspension is pretty blancmange-like anyway.

It's not full-on plasic either. You know corrugated cardboard? Coroplast is like that, but made from plastic. So it's essentially mostly air, so it's very light, which is why all the ecomodders use it. And on 1.5+ tonnes of Volvo it's not going to make a blind bit of difference weight-wise.

And plywood isn't that heavy. Have you ever opened a plywood door in your home compared to a hardwood door? One of plywood's defining characteristics is it's lightness.

Incidentally, have you seen how much that guy is getting over the EPA ratings? He's averaging 7mpg imperial better than EPA, which must be about 20% better. Not too shabby, you have to admit.
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okay, I surrender.. :lol: don't shoot the messenger.. but, you have to admit that his results would be a lot better with a manual box. that ancient slushbox is probably throwing his figures off. and I'd hate to do maintenance/oilchange on that car due the flat floorpan..:nervous: I still think that he could lose some weight from the car. I know that 240 doesn't look that big or spacious, but after Greycap revealed all the hidden smuggling compartments to me, I was bit stunned. I'm sure he has a lot of unnecessary stuff stored away in there.
 

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