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Topic Started: Jul 2 2009, 06:15 PM (157 Views)
IHeartGeos	Jul 2 2009, 06:15 PM Post #1
Member Posts: 81 Group: Members Member #931 Joined: Jul 2, 2009 Location Lincoln, NE Year/Make/Model 1989 Geo Metro LSi	Well, I thought I would introduce myself by way of introducing my car! Some time last year I bought myself an '89 Geo Metro, with the intent of taking it's manual transmission and putting it in a newer '94 Geo Metro. (Turns out that the transmission in the '89 was junk after 3K miles, so it's a good thing I didn't do it!) Once I had the '89 in my possession, however, I realized the body was in pretty good shape so I decided instead to restore it. So far I have rebuilt the engine (I painted it, just for fun) and only recently I swapped out the bad transmission of the '89 with a spare manual I had from a '94. The spline count on the clutch plate of the '94 is different than the '89, so I bought a new clutch kit, which was alright since the old one was slipping a lot anyways. Thankfully the CV shafts were the same from '89 to '94, so I didn't need new ones. The car still needs quite a bit of work, and I am in college (Mechanical Engineering) so I don't get a lot of time (or money!) to work on it, but I have high hopes and dreams. You can find me over at the ecomodder forum (same name) every once in a while talking about some mods, or you can follow my flickr account, where I post pictures of it, or you can follow the blog I made for it. That's it! Look out, forum, here I come! Here it is getting ready for a special hyper-miling run from eastern Nebraska to central Colorado: Here is the painted engine going in:



Bad Bent	Jul 2 2009, 07:45 PM Post #2
Facetious Educated Donkey Posts: 4,232 Group: Moderator Member #334 Joined: Dec 26, 2008 Location Native of SoCal, existing in McCall, Idaho Year/Make/Model 1991 and 1996 Geo Metros	Welcome to the forum, IHeartGeos! Not many of us on tonight, eh. I like the aero mods. What's the gas mileage with the tape and cardboard, may I ask? I went with an air dam and recently back to warm air. Ditched the OEM intake. If you got taped in and had a 60 gallon tank you could drive cross country non-stop! I hope your studies are going well...



Johnny Mullet	Jul 2 2009, 08:59 PM Post #3
"Geo Whisperer" Posts: 5,819 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Sep 7, 2008 Location Ashtabula, Ohio Year/Make/Model 97 & 98 Metro	Welcome to GeoMetroForum.com Looking forward to seeing your project progress. So are those rear wheel skirts or body work prep



Will	Jul 2 2009, 10:55 PM Post #4
Victory is mine!!!! Posts: 1,508 Group: Moderator Member #3 Joined: Sep 9, 2008 Location Brownsville, TN Year/Make/Model 2008 Chevy Cobalt XFE	Welcome. I love the way you got the engine lookin. That is sharp. Looking forward to hearing more.



IHeartGeos	Jul 5 2009, 10:18 PM Post #5
Member Posts: 81 Group: Members Member #931 Joined: Jul 2, 2009 Location Lincoln, NE Year/Make/Model 1989 Geo Metro LSi	Well, with the cardboard mods it seems I got somewhere over 50mpg for going up to Colorado (from Nebraska) and just under 60mpg on the way back down. I plan to make some of those mods more permanent, but that was just a "for fun" project. I have been putting off any work on the Geo because I wanted to wait until I got a camera, so I could document the progress, and my camera will be here at the end of the week, I hope. One thing I wondered was this: I put a cardboard piece over the windshield wiper section, to lower the angle of attack at that point, and I came up with an interesting design for a permanent piece. Basically a flap thing that pops up when you need to use the wipers, but otherwise makes the slope a bit better. I'm not sure that point is worth fiddling with, aerodynamics-wise. I have a lot of plans for over the summer, which is more than half way done for me, so we will see how much I get done!



dimetrodon	Jul 5 2009, 11:11 PM Post #6
Posts: 492 Group: Valued Members Member #311 Joined: Dec 14, 2008 Location Northern Illinois Year/Make/Model 1990 and 1992 Geo Metros	Lincoln Nebraska.... Mechanical Engineering... Let me know if you bump into this guy. Steve Platt, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Nebraska - Lincoln If you see him, tell him I said hello. Ever heard of a famous Nebraskan naturalist named Loren Eiseley? http://www.eiseley.org/ http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1391 My two favorite places in Nebraska: http://www.nps.gov/agfo/siteindex.htm http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/16471/places/38098/



Noob	Jul 6 2009, 10:09 AM Post #7
New Member Posts: 24 Group: Members Member #596 Joined: Mar 23, 2009 Location Nebraska Year/Make/Model 1994/Geo/Metro 1.0 3Cyl	Yay another Cornhusker!



IHeartGeos	Jul 9 2009, 02:09 AM Post #8
Member Posts: 81 Group: Members Member #931 Joined: Jul 2, 2009 Location Lincoln, NE Year/Make/Model 1989 Geo Metro LSi	dimetrodon, I looked up a picture of him, but I don't recognize him. Picture was pretty grainy, so maybe this fall... UNL is a pretty rockin' place for engineers, and I just got in on the tail end of a mini baja build group, making it even more fun! If you go to UNL this fall, I will be the nerdy guy: Glasses, facial hair, ti-89 tucked in my front pocket.



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