My friend/co-worker, upon hearing about my truck project, encouraged me (repeatedly) to do a write up for the do-it-yourself website Instructables.com. 

As it happened, I was working on consolidating my blog posts on the topic for the hypermiling websites from which I had originally gotten most of the ideas I’ve been implementing. So I followed the link he sent, signed up, and reformatted the posts to be appropriate for the popular how-to site.

The site was new to me, so it took basically all day figuring out the features and making changes to the content and pictures and tweaking various things.  

Comments started coming in, and I responded to the comments, and then a site administrator must have seen it and liked it because before the first day was over I was promoted to a “featured” item, which meant my post was put on the site’s homepage. And the views took off.  By day two there had been over 4000 views, and it was moved to the “popular” section of the homepage.

Right now (3 and half days since I published) its up to 6415 views and over 50 comments. One of which was: “I think I might play the aero game on my car now!” That’s the best compliment I could get.

If I encourage just one person to drive a little slower, or even do some mods, writing all this up will have all been worth the effort.its one thing writing on my own blog, or on a hypermiling website, but introducing these ideas to the general population, that is gratifying.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Vehicle-efficiency-upgrades/