Best Super Cheap Beater Car w/ Amazing Gas Mileage

[Jakeman17]

Honda/Acura. Cheap parts and when I drive the integra nice or beat on it still pulls 30-28 mpg

 

[SRT41320]

I'm still pissed I didn't have the cash for your maroon civic you were selling a year or 2 ago

my wife is still pissed I sold it!! :lmao: then again she has a vagina and cannot seem to let anything go...

 

[greasy]

god damn are you running e85 or just wot everyware lol

60 lbs injectors, 300 lph fuel pump, 4.10 gears, 5 speed trans, tuned slightly more on the rich side for safety, and me getting on it have to do something with it! :lmao: I am sure there is some tuning room for mpg's, but I am not too concerned about it. I did not build this car to get better gas mileage.

 

[greasy]

What's your new setup?

http://www.thechicagogarage.com/forum/member-builds/131464-quest-mo-powa.html

 

[boostedguy05]

the $700 91 escort wagon on here

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Its $500 now

 

[Fish]

There was a saturn that 'had some assembly required' on this very board for like $500....

Didnt you buy it for $500, sell it for $1200, and still needed to be assembled?

 

[Dasfinc]

Didnt you buy it for $500, sell it for $1200, and still needed to be assembled?

You are just about the only person that still has a hard-on for me about flipping cars on these boards...

I did not buy that Saturn.

 

[Fish]

You are just about the only person that still has a hard-on for me about flipping cars on these boards...

I did not buy that Saturn.

Obviously my joke and smiley face was overlooked.

I had no clue about said saturn.

 

[Euro]

I'll get on the Saturn train. My g/f has an 01 SL1 or whatever, and she had neglected the fuck out of it before we met( I at least now make sure there's oil and coolant in it )

It has just under 100k on it, and somehow it's still running. If I didn't HATE driving it because I'm too damn big for it, I'd consider one for a DD beater.

 

[greasy]

Thanks again for the input!

Do the Saturn just burn oil and eat coolant?

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

They usually just burn mostly oil. I had one that had a knock in the top end and it would sputter If you went over 4k rpm and burned oil fairly often. Kept it under 4k rpm and kept it filled with oil and it never got worse and never left me stranded in 10k miles.

 

[Euro]

I'm pretty sure it eats coolant too, whenever it has a taste for it it seems. Her overflow tank one day was completely bone dry...so she filled it up and it hasn't moved since then

Hers has a top end tick upon cold startup whenever it gets low on oil. That's usually my key to add some

 

[greasy]

 

[Euro]

I actually need to change the oil in it. I haven't done it this year I don't think

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Meh when your putting new oil in all the time I consider that changing it

 

[Donnie]

Thanks again for the input!

Do the Saturn just burn oil and eat coolant?

They burn oil, yeah. No drain-backs in the oil ring lands, so they get coked up eventually.

Coolant? Nah. Not unless you've got a SOHC with a cracked head. Or a broken radiator end-tank.

 

[School Boy]

1990 integra

 

[Euro]

Coolant? Nah. Not unless you've got a SOHC with a cracked head. Or a broken radiator end-tank.

I just kinda chalked it up to a new water pump having something to do with it. Rich17 put a new one in for her, and it was probably a month afterwards where she noticed. No temperature problems, and the WP went fine..maybe there was still air in the system.

All I know as it's been fine since!

 

[wolfe]

I saw like a 92 skylark that was minty yesterday for like $1700 and though of you.

This body style

Like I said, it looked fucking mint. Not that color, but kinda similar. If you want me to grab a # let me know

 

[Dasfinc]

Obviously my joke and smiley face was overlooked.

I had no clue about said saturn.

Sorry I'm snippy about it, Just reminds me of 'bad times'

 

[jason05gt]

Get a Honda Civic. 30+ mpg, good build quality, and they will run forever. I kept my wife's 2003 Civic when I bought her a new car and use it as a DD. It's got 126K and it drives like new.

 

[SRT41320]

find a Honda or acura... they cannot be beat when it comes to repair costs and reliability!

 

[torquelover]

Went through this a bit ago, and found most of the cheap 4 banger cars from the 90's has motorized seatbelts. 90's something Civic or Integra. Cheap on parts, can be kinda fun to drive, and no funky motorized shoulder harness.