Isn't there enough radiated heat from the exhaust to do the job once the cars going?

Living in Canberra I used to have problems with the twin sus icing up on the downhill run into town down the Federal Highway... so bad I'd have to pull over and stop a few minutes to let exhaust heat rise and melt the ice because it was coughing and spluttering so much.... but only ever in SUMMER !

Winter even at the snow fields - no dramas at all.

I reckon there would be cause I think my car is fine on a frosty winter morning (can get just into the -ve's sometimes). I reckon the aussie climate is too hot for them but obviously, living in sunny queensland might have a bit to do with that last statement!

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

Most of my maternal relatives live in or have come from Toowoomba. My late mother lived her twilight years in Toowoomba. My grandfather was a race horse trainer there.

Now !!!!! I have been in Toowoomba when it is snowing, I have been there when we have had to chip the frost off the windscreen. It can get as cold as the central tablelands.

You can get carby ice anywhere. You just need the right combination of conditions.

okay i wasn't being completely honest before, i do know why she is running cold.

i recently hooked up and air intake for her that funnels the air at 90km on the highway straight into her stoko airbox.
the set up, air goes through grille into the top of a 5L water container. then it goes through a mesh to catch bugs then through a tube into the useual air intake part of the filter housing, tub easily unatachebale for rainy days.

the effiency of the engine now is amazing and i can get to byron bay without noticing a drop in the fuel gauge.

when driving around town at 30km/ph she runs about 3-4 mm below Norm on the temp gauge, on norm on very very very hot days.

i just know she would run even better on the highway if i got her a bit warmer then 1-2 mm above norm on the temp gauge.

even some mod that i could switch on or off.

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Sunday Morning Mini Sprint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGuzqBQ32Q my "rendezvous"

I had the twin HS4s on Barney's 1293 ice up in Tassie last May, on the trip across the centre into Queenstown.
Never done it before or since.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Promise me you'll get me some photos for the rice submissions thread!

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

here Mick, this is it. i am thinking of painting it black but i dunno yet. i made the bracket to hold the water bottle at school.

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Sunday Morning Mini Sprint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGuzqBQ32Q my "rendezvous"

Oh that's awesome. i am so impressed!

If you had made the metal bit from a Pepsi can I would have been dissapointed, and you would have caused the car to cough and splutter and generally run like a pig.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

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Does your mum know you've butchered her vacuum cleaner?!

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One should never skimp on the zip ties.

That's great...
Have u got any dyno results?

Also, will this be available in kit form anytime soon?!

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Carl
Previous Owner & Driver of 1 Morris "It's not a Cooper!!" 850

u should have used a red bull can silly!!!!

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-jamie-
1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

you can laugh.

but the efficiency on the highway to work is amazing. i just know it work even better if the engine doesn't get so cold.

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Sunday Morning Mini Sprint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGuzqBQ32Q my "rendezvous"