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.

[PBO]

Originally Posted by shaunjohnson

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

Yeah, I am

Every car (except maybe your van! ) can exceed the speed limit, you've just gotta know where you can get away with it on the roads. I have a few favoured places where there's no traffic (single carriageway), no speed cameras or hidy holes for the wallopers to get you & hello 200-250kph

I'd love to have a rip in a Maloo...it'd suck to own one though, couldn't take the kids with me!!

[shaunjohnson]

man you havent felt speed/power till you have been in the MANette

yes against the law is all very well and can be fun. like the only straight 3km strip we have here in tas...permenant speed camera in the middle, but someone has ALWAYS painted over it's lenzes .

but one of those utes arnt much good for doing anything more than the grocery shopping or going fast.
what is the point in owning a car like that?

the trouble is...not-so-fast-cars follow the same principle as the fast ones, high revs, more HP, turbo's, high torque band.

i find it funny when a mates van (VW turbo diesel) has to rev in order to get the turbo spinning just to pull the rubber duckie up the boat ramp.
his engine is bigger, more pwerfull and has a turbo...
i can idle up the boat ramp with my crap box.
hell i hardly ever use 1st gear because it's easier to start off from a rest in second.

i still think engines have gone backwards...but dont worry...i designed a new engine that can take any fuel, from diesel to hydrogen and produce a better torque/power band, anyone wanna loan me a few thousand to help develop it?

[PBO]

Manette - love it!

If I really wanted a ute I'd buy one - I don't have one so I guess I don't really want one

I wouldn't speed in TAS either, don't you have unmarked cars parked by the side of the road merrily snapping away? Targa would be a whole lotta fun though