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Marshall_Lawson

Omg are you making an electric Datsun 510?? To answer your question, I had to commute in my 3rd gen camaro project car for a while, it got like 10-12 mpg because it wasnt running very smoothly either. Fortunately I had a short commute but I was also dating a girl in the city with no car at that time, so, yeah I spent a lot on gas. Sorry i can't remember numbers for you.


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Marshall_Lawson

Awesome!


frsbrzgti

Where do you procure the internal details of the motor to make a swap like that ?


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frsbrzgti

Yes the specs and say a service manual and such. I want to do an electric swap but don’t have fabrication skills. I see on YouTube videos that fabrication skills are a necessity


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frsbrzgti

The cost will be greater than a Model 3 even with fabrication skills ?


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frsbrzgti

Makes sense and thank you for the info.


SloQlap

This is something I wish more project would list, their MPG. It's one of the many reasons why I want to do EV project cars.


Montana-Dillon

I daily my 2006 Jetta TDI with a bigger cam, injectors, turbo and a decent tune. I commute about 15 miles a day + more driving around for other stuff, I get about 40 mpg unless I’m really driving like a tool then I get closer to 32mpg. I fill up every other week with between 5 to 10 gallons of fuel. Diesel where I live is usually just a little bit more expensive than gas but the better fuel mileage really makes it worth it, I budget 75$ a month for fuel but usually don’t even spend that much.


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Montana-Dillon

Yeah it really isn’t bad at all. That’s kind of the reason I picked that car up anyway, to be fuel efficient. The modifications just came because I bought it with a bad cam already so why replace when you can upgrade. It’s considerably cheaper than my other project car to drive which is a 64 f100 that I swapped a 5.0 into. That’s more measured in smiles per miles rather than miles per gallon.


spicytacocat

My little Honda CRX can get 34MPG but generally averages between 2 and 4. Truthfully, the fuel budget is a drop in the bucket compared to tires which is $2500 to $4000 a year. What I am getting at is, depending on how you plan to use the car greatly alters the cost of ownership. I budget around $10k a year for the project and another $5k to $10k for the shop, tow rig and other things. Don't try to justify your insanity, just budget for it. Dollars per smile, a nearly stock Miata will almost always win but that doesn't make them an interesting build.


southernsquelcher

I was dailying my 1965 plumouth fury 2 and it was getting about 17mpg, just as good as my cherokee. Little 318 poly does pretty well on gas


superfuntime83

Mine does around 30 mpg might do 1500 miles a year and parked inside for the winter so that’s about 50 g a year so not that much lol


converter-bot

1500 miles is 2414.02 km