WHAT IS YOUR UTMOST CONCERN? FC, power or emissions?

**light2light** · June 19th, 2012 07:03 PM

WHAT IS YOUR UTMOST CONCERN? Fc, power or emissions?

*FC - Majority of car owners are more concerned about fuel consumption, followed by power
performance and the least is emissions.

*Engine power - Modern car engine designs (2000) had greatly improved over the carb and conventional diesel injection pump.

*Emissions – Who cares about emissions if your car periodically pass the preregistration emission tests? (without 'assistance' from the emission test operator/technician!) Who cares if your emission test show 2.4k for diesel, or 3.0% CO and 500ppm HC for gasoline engine? If your CEC show these figures, you can sleep soundly tonight with the thought that you are not contributing to our carbon footprint, right?

**renzo_d10** · June 19th, 2012 07:16 PM

Everything should be proportional for me.

FC would depend on the engine power that the car has, if it has less than 1.6L displacement I would expect something around at least 10km/L fuel consumption -- city driving. Of course, I'd expect something around 3-4km/L if I were to drive an STi. Depends, really.

Emissions aren't really my priority, of course I would want to pass it... but whether it's low or high, as long as it passed... it's an OK for me. Definitely better emissions would be better... but I don't really pay attention to it.

**uls** · June 19th, 2012 07:20 PM

i don't care about emissions

i don't care about carbon footprint

i'm not a treehugger

**Starex_Gold** · June 19th, 2012 07:26 PM

Power.

Too Short.

**Retz** · June 19th, 2012 07:26 PM

FC first followed by engine power. Emission should be the least of my concerns.

**ghosthunter** · June 19th, 2012 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by Retz

FC first followed by engine power. Emission should be the least of my concerns.

Assuming you have a factory spec car, emissions should not even be a concern.

**CVT** · June 20th, 2012 10:47 AM

1. Reliability and Safety
2. Aircon (may be included in reliability - mahirap mag drive ng walang aircon- sobrang init at alikabok)
3. Power
4. Fuel Consumption

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**1D4LV** · June 20th, 2012 04:10 PM

for me....

FC is the primary concern... since hindi naman ako performance driver....

the rest, secondary na lang, since performance does not equate to good FC.

**oj88** · June 19th, 2012 07:34 PM

1. Engine power
2. FC/FE
3. Emissions

In that order.

To elaborate:

1. I got a Civic with the 1.8L engine. Not quite up there in the torque department, but still peppy enough even if I fill it up with groceries and my family.
2. Bought a ScanGaugeII which I recently replaced with the UltraGauge to keep tabs on FE.
3. Always kept the engine in tip top shape. Never dreamed of doing a cat-delete in an attempt to squeeze a bit more power out of the engine. Finally, the UltraGauge would sound an alert if the CEL is triggered (emissions problem, usually).

**ghosthunter** · June 19th, 2012 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by oj88

3. Always kept the engine in tip top shape. Never dreamed of doing a cat-delete in an attempt to squeeze a bit more power out of the engine. Finally, the UltraGauge would sound an alert if the CEL is triggered (emissions problem, usually).

Depending on how restrictive your stock catalytic converter would be, you can gain a few HPs by upgrading to an aftermarket low restriction CAT. But it will be expensive and HPs gained is generally not that big (unless you're going the path of turbo upgrades).