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Author:  Phat Kat [ Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Crazy Back Yard S*** That shouldn't have worked... But did!
Lets face it, most of us mini fans are tight arses, and if aren't tight arses we were dirt poor teenagers once with no money.

Yes we all have Champaign tastes on Beer bugdets from time to time and we all like to talk big about buying the latest and gear from the UK,,, But then the little "man gremlins" get going and we start "inventing" or finding cheap solutions to problems using.... lets face it crap, out of our sheds. :D

I thought it would be a hoot to hear about the dumb stuff that people have dreamt up to fix problems or make their cars go faster... and don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about, if you own a mini,,, your guilty :lol: :lol:

A couple of examples to get us going, when I was a tight arse young teenager, I had an 1100 van padock basher... now I read about "Ram tuning" in a book and thought it was just the thing that my sad ol' 1100 needed to give it a bit of extra... something... So I couldn't afford a ram pipe of my own, I had no money. But I had a head full of dreams and a can of Bog. So I fashioned my very own stub stack out of bog and sanded it to shape using examples from the book... now your all going "what a dip sh1t" right? Crazy thing is, I stuck it on my Dads friends flow bench and it actually worked!!! A whole 4% increase in flow!! I thought I was king of the hill 8) .... and I swear it made the van go faster... honestly :mrgreen:

Now if thats not your cuppa tea, than the other example I had, admittedly isn't mine it's someone elses, was something a little more practical for all you family folk

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Check it out! little dude is eating brakefast on his parents mud gaurd using a clamp on high chair!!! another example of a cheap easy solution to a problem that all us mini/moke folk encounter in a our daily lives!!!


Lets here from someothers with there examples of Crazy Back Yard S*** That Shouldn't Have Worked.... But did! Don't be shy :D
Author:  BALLISTIC [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:49 am ]
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Phat Kat wrote:
Now if thats not your cuppa tea, than the other example I had, admittedly isn't mine it's someone elses, was something a little more practical for all you family folk

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Check it out! little dude is eating brakefast on his parents mud gaurd using a clamp on high chair!!! another example of a cheap easy solution to a problem that all us mini/moke folk encounter in a our daily lives!!!


:lol: That looks like Watto's moke......
Author:  Phat Kat [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:59 am ]
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Close BALLISTIC close,,,,,It's not watto's moke though
Author:  marc2131 [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:34 am ]
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In the old days, we would have been called tight arses.

Today we are greenish recyclers.
Author:  bill.b [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:23 pm ]
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this is all true but not so much now due to police highly enforcing defects on cars, im all up for rolling out the home grown ideas but inless there hidden your going to get caught out pritty quickly as sad as it is. i love this kind of innovation but sadly the RTA dont, even though sometimes its safter than stock!!

BILL
Author:  drmini in aust [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:00 pm ]
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bill.b wrote:
this is all true but not so much now due to police highly enforcing defects on cars, im all up for rolling out the home grown ideas but inless there hidden your going to get caught out pritty quickly as sad as it is. i love this kind of innovation but sadly the RTA dont, even though sometimes its safter than stock!!

BILL

So, is there a list of `improvements' we cannot now have?
Is this list related to the year of the car?
If they are `period correct' modifications that were OK back then, why not now?

Where is our resident HP walloper... hey, Scotty??
:lol:

IMO don't call attention to yourself and you won't get caught. :wink:
Author:  Phat Kat [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:18 pm ]
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ok this didn't catch on the way i thought it might :roll: oh well my mistake.

Here's another example that Mick reminded me of... See if you can guess whats going on :wink:

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Its my little hot tank!!! great for those small jobs like overflow tanks, subframe parts, small children, anyway.

Yes Mick, the "tea" does taste funny around here,,, but its not cos dad quenched the pistons in the water tank :wink: :lol: BTW I was wondering why the hell you asked about that until I went back and read my post :roll: my old man is over and he was talking to me :oops: sorry mate, not to good at multi tasking :)
Author:  Mick [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:40 pm ]
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I hear you can really dissolve the bodies down to nothing that way... :lol:
Author:  Phat Kat [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:42 pm ]
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Mick wrote:
I hear you can really dissolve the bodies down to nothing that way... :lol:


yeah well don't tell everyone ok!!! :)
Author:  sgc [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:45 pm ]
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No worries PK, it's just between us and the rest of the Internet ;)
Author:  blue_deluxe [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:46 pm ]
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You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.
And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig crap, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
Author:  mini maxx [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:46 pm ]
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Going to work tomorrow and relieving them of the urn in the brew room :lol: Cool idea phats
Author:  GT mowog [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:48 pm ]
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sgc wrote:
No worries PK, it's just between us and the rest of the Internet ;)


Are we on the internet :shock: I thought this was a private chat room and it all true - truely :P
Author:  Phat Kat [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:48 pm ]
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:shock: look just cos you guys all said that I look like chopper it doesn't make me a killer... I'M INOSCENT!!!!! I didn't do it!!!! :lol:


EDIT--> Mini Maxx, if your going to try and make a caustic tank, just remember,, NO ALLOYS AND NO GALVANISED PARTS,,, I learnt the hard way so you don't have too :wink: I have another hot thank I made out of a site box, its 90 odd litres and I heat it with the eliments out of electric fry pans (3 for them).... only problem is that it takes a long time to heat up, thats why I have the small one as well.
Author:  sgc [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:49 pm ]
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blue_deluxe wrote:
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece.

<snip>

Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".


Ummm.. this certainly fits the description "Crazy back yard sh_t that shouldn't have worked... but did :shock: :shock:
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