I drive 400+ miles every 2-3 days...

 

buy a base model civic and put the tsx in the garage

 

Hahah.. can't I'm a realtor, and need the "nicer" car. The TSX is actually my beater...

 

oh. funny, i thought you were complaining about the price as if you couldn't afford the gas.
yeah.

 

greed.. but why is this in parts anyways??

 

if the TSX is your beater, what is your other car? and yea, here in chicago premium is 3.45 and its kiling the wallet.....

edit: my guess would be an elise

 

Yup, I have a 05 Elise that will get a K series motor transplant this summer. Fully built, turbo... though I just sold my racecar 1993 240sx with a sr20det (turbo) motor, & Honda RC-51 (131rwhp).

 

To minkl81 : It's about performance... Not parts... sorry... heh

 

got any pics of the elise?
theres a vid on this forum somewhere of a Elise with a turbo K
blew away the stock elise

 

This is hardly performance or parts related. Moving to general discussion...

 

SWWWEEEET!!

 

I work with you realtors and know how much you guys drive. But then again, when you sell a house out here in CA, you make up for it. I don't make the big commission bucks like you guys do. My worst week so far in my new car has been 1,000 miles. Filling up 3 times that week at $3.50/gallon sucked *ss.

 

Yup. It's not that easy to sell a house though. Everyone likes to ask for kick backs, and cutting commission... BLAH. I feel you on the 1,000 miles in a week. I've cut down so that I don't do that anymore. I'm averaging 2000/month instead of 4000/month like when I first got in this business 2 years ago.

 

I can't afford gas .....that's why I take TEH BUS YO!!

but I would love to see the Elise and your old 240SX>..

 

oh wow it must suck paying all that money on gas when you can just write it off

 

You're paying $3.45/gallon for Gasohol? Jeez, that's only hurting your fuel economy and performance while costing a ton. I didn't think CARB approved Gasohol for sale in CA.

 

pics of elise?

 

i believe that almost ALL gasoline now is mixed with less than 10% ethanol

 

California absolutely uses ethanol, now that mtbe has been phased out. Wow, $3.25/gallon. In Iowa (granted, it's Iowa), 91 oct is about $2.65/gal. and, presently, there's no ethanol in it. The rack price of ethanol is higher than gasoline, in some places by a lot. It's in the gasoline only by mandate, not by economics.

 

Do you know when CARB authorized ethanol? When I was stationed in San Diego/Camp Pendleton it was all MTBE, IIRC. This was in 2002.

 

san antonio mandate was this month. so was houston. maybe for all of texas?

 

You're lucky that you're one of the sucessful ones. So many that I've talked to have sold at the most 2 homes and then quit the business. It takes some tenacity.

I don't have a problem with Realtors as long as they look out for their clients, that's what they're there for. I can't stand the fly-by-night "I want to be rich" bastards (which you don't seem you are).