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Re: Fuel economy/Heat recovery

Posted: February 4th, 2010, 9:25 am
by Ryan
Haha, read the comments. HE wanted to use it as an electric conversion! Its also missing, or some interior panels are off.

Its a nice clean one. Sell me the sides when you buy it :)

Re: Fuel economy/Heat recovery

Posted: February 4th, 2010, 12:10 pm
by fowljesse
Depending on how much you want to spend, there's a guy on here selling his Carbon Fiber hatch, and hood. We're making Lexan hatch glass, and I'm going to make a windshield.
You could reduce the weight of that car even less than I mentioned before.

Re: Fuel economy/Heat recovery

Posted: February 5th, 2010, 5:55 am
by RX8SE3P
You know, slotting in a diesel turbo engine into the 30x would actually be less work than what you're trying to achieve and it would get great fuel economy.

Re: Fuel economy/Heat recovery

Posted: February 5th, 2010, 2:09 pm
by fowljesse
There is a diesel engine that bolts up. I can't remember exactly, but Yoda mentioned it a while back.
Found it.
From Yoda; "If you are thinking Diesel I would consider the diesel version of the FE 2.0 used the the 323F (Protege 5) I have been talking to a guy in France for a few years now that is running over 310hp but over 500ft/lb torque all under 4500rpm in a 323F"

Re: Fuel economy/Heat recovery

Posted: February 6th, 2010, 4:00 am
by amnonholland
I just bought the car in the link i posted previously
i have started a new thread to log the conversion.

http://www.mx-3.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.ph ... 75#p540375" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Fuel economy/Heat recovery

Posted: February 6th, 2010, 4:19 am
by hgallegos915
fowljesse wrote:Depending on how much you want to spend, there's a guy on here selling his Carbon Fiber hatch, and hood. We're making Lexan hatch glass, and I'm going to make a windshield.
You could reduce the weight of that car even less than I mentioned before.

WOAH WINDSHIELD?????? I WANT IT!

Re: Fuel economy/Heat recovery

Posted: February 6th, 2010, 9:25 am
by Nd4SpdSe
fowljesse wrote:There is a diesel engine that bolts up. I can't remember exactly, but Yoda mentioned it a while back.
Found it.
From Yoda; "If you are thinking Diesel I would consider the diesel version of the FE 2.0 used the the 323F (Protege 5) I have been talking to a guy in France for a few years now that is running over 310hp but over 500ft/lb torque all under 4500rpm in a 323F"
If it's an FE, it wouldn't be bolt-in, but it would be exactly like the one guy that did an Fe3T swap, same series.