Lulu'so Aspire Automatic

[lulu]

Jealous. I can't get anything better than 30 on a good day in my '97.

[TominMO]

Jealous. I can't get anything better than 30 on a good day in my '97.

Are you talking about city driving? That would be normal. Do you have an automatic?

Anyway, start a thread in the Repair Help forum. This mileage seems too low.

[lulu]

It's an auto. And that's highway MPGs. It has some issues though

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[FestYboy]

Tell your man to swap in a Festiva torque converter, your mpg will increase around town and you'll have better acceleration.

[lulu]

Tell your man to swap in a Festiva torque converter, your mpg will increase around town and you'll have better acceleration.

What's acceleration? Is that an actual thing in an Aspire?

[TominMO]

What's acceleration? Is that an actual thing in an Aspire?

Aspires are ~300 lbs heavier and have a less efficient exhaust manifold than a Festiva's. And being a 3-speed auto, that hurts both acceleration and MPG. Worst of all possible combinations for Festivas/Aspires. A 5-speed is the only way to go to get decent mileage, but maybe as Arty says the Festy torque converter would help. I know nothing about Fespire automatics, and don't care to.

[FestYboy]

Yeah, the aspire converter lockup happens @17-1900 rpm ( mechanical) well before torque peak, so it dogs out. When the converter is allowed to stay spinning faster than input shaft speed, you gain torque multiplication and therefore better acceleration and you don't bog down the engine with the horrid gearing as much. Pepe will actually out run Bruce (auto>manual) as they both are stock.
Caety's Kermit (96 auto) would never get above 21 with mixed ( mostly city) driving before her TCC gave up the ghost. Now she regularly hits 27 truly mixed driving. I've gotten 34+ highway with him now where before my best was just shy of 33.

[lulu]

Yeah, the aspire converter lockup happens @17-1900 rpm ( mechanical) well before torque peak, so it dogs out. When the converter is allowed to stay spinning faster than input shaft speed, you gain torque multiplication and therefore better acceleration and you don't bog down the engine with the horrid gearing as much. Pepe will actually out run Bruce (auto>manual) as they both are stock.
Caety's Kermit (96 auto) would never get above 21 with mixed ( mostly city) driving before her TCC gave up the ghost. Now she regularly hits 27 truly mixed driving. I've gotten 34+ highway with him now where before my best was just shy of 33.

Will the Festiva trans swap right in? We have a known good auto. My trans in my car was jacked from the beginning. Fluid never got filled after it left the factory, and the dealer never caught it. So my parents drove it quite some time with low fluid. It's awful, but it gets me where I need to go.

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[FestYboy]

They are essentially the same save for the final drive and the torque converter. You MAY need to retain the mounts, but other than that...