Guy that runs the Green Mill called today saying I had to move it.

Any idea where I should put park this thing so it gets seen a bit and won't be upsetting the owners?

I've held off on ebaying it since I re-did my insurance differently and dropped a different vehicle instead, so now i don't have the same time crunch to unload it.

LMK if you want to take a look, I'm pretty flexible.

BUMP for AWD sweetness

Oil consumption isn't bad, but again, I don't know how much because I don't know how many miles I put on it. Home->Work is 6 miles one way, and it's the only car I drive in winters.. and I add maybe 1qt in a winter? There's some grime under the hood so I don't know how much of it is leaking vs burning. No spots on the garage floor or anything like that though.

1st->2nd will grind if you force it. If you do a redline shift at 1st, it takes longer than you expect for the revs to drop to where second goes cleanly. Same thing on 2->3rd. Just take your shift motions easy and let the gear lever fall where it wants to.

For downchanges, I double clutch in all of my cars so I couldn't say if grinding is a big problem. I can pull off clutchless downchanges in this car from 5->4 and 3->2, and once from 2->1, but usually 4->3 gets some grinding so I've stopped trying it for that change. I do a 5->4 clutchless downchange when im entering the 94west->29south cloverleaf (happens whenever i drive the car to work) and those are always nice and smooth.

I couldn't say how the clutch is. I've never felt it slip if that's what you're asking. I'm pretty easy on clutches and typically wait until my left foot is all the way off before the rpms exceed 2000.

The car gets driven pretty hard in terms of high rpms, long bouts of WOT, high lateral loading, etc, but I treat the gearbox and clutch reasonably gingerly.

In Feb of 06 i did one of the Ice driving events with the Minneapolis Quattro club... having a $1500 AWD car is justifiable just to do one of those events.... I've never had more fun driving a vehicle. All 4 tires spinning, 50mph in 2nd gear indicated... and with a flick of the wrist you are at 90 degrees sideways... full opposite lock, car drifting down towards the apex of the "big oval"..

If I had any way at all to realistically keep this car, I would, and I'd cage it and make it a rally-X / ice car. The B3 platform is capable of amazing things -- visit http://www.80tq.com/20vtMotor.html and read all about the legend of Javad and 034 motorsports if you want to be impressed.

Unfortuneately, I am out of parking spots and I just bought something else which means I have too many cars for my insurance policy and need to unload this one in a hurry.

Thanks for the bumps.

thrash;162988 wrote:
Around town, in the teens. Highway was mid 20s last I checked, but it's hard to know since the odo/trip gauge are not counting. I've had the motor tuned up a bit since then so it may do better now.

I also have never tried to drive it.. economically

I hear that these cars are gas sippers if you go easy, but I can't bring myself to try verifying that claim. It's only a 2.3 liter, and the car is under 3000 lbs (leather and everything!)

Actually they are 3300lbs dry weight according to the title (at least my 91 was anyway)

highest I ever got in mine was 18 in town (driving nicely) and 22-23 on the highway going 80...but mine had a thermostat problem...it was always open and even after replacing it it still was stuck open...sold the car before I could figure out what it was...I say that because that may have caused the car to get a lil less MPG than it was capable of getting.

Does it burn any oil? If so, how much? How's the clutch? Any grinds at all? Mine would grind going into 2nd gear while cold, but after warming up it would go away.

Once again though, I can't emphisize enough how sweet these cars are in the snow...I was out driving during a blizzard in mine last year, and it handled it like nothing.

BUMP...somebody buy this thing for next winter!!!

torbs;162986 wrote:
what you get for mpg in town/hwy?

Around town, in the teens. Highway was mid 20s last I checked, but it's hard to know since the odo/trip gauge are not counting. I've had the motor tuned up a bit since then so it may do better now.

I also have never tried to drive it.. economically

I hear that these cars are gas sippers if you go easy, but I can't bring myself to try verifying that claim. It's only a 2.3 liter, and the car is under 3000 lbs (leather and everything!)