Starting to look at new car options (1:1)

[shaunjohnson]

Originally Posted by PBO

I do...

why?
arnt you form aus too? we can use that kind of speed anywhere legaly anyway (it would be kinda cool if we could)


OH OH OH!!! GET AN ORIGINAL MINI COOPER!!!!
i got to drive one of them on hoon night here (friday night)
sooo funny to watch the people who own pimped out holden commodores go reound corners...they have to slow down...but the mini can stay at the speed limit while taking the turn, it's like trying to push over a brick from the bottom edge

my dad build a new diff for his mini, so 1st gear was same as 2nd used to be, 3rd little lower than 4th used to be, effectively giving him a whole extra gear, then he re-built the engine to suit it. high torque cam, not any of this high reving stuff.

end result, after a few 300psi compression ratio problems (piston muck up, silly thing fired on the compression gague and blew it up!), was a mini cooper that could cruise at 100kph while just doing a tick over 2500rpm so it'd hum along quite nicely.