A HUGE drive...

and i should've taken my camera...

I started out by watching australia continue it's streak in world cup qualifying and when the missus left for work, i took off for what i thought was going to be a "quick cruise".

hmm... I filled up in woodside and set of to see where i would end up.... and i ended up going up past collinsgrove to angaston then to nuri then back down the highway, all the way to the city.. out the other end up to belair and back home via mt lofty just a "quick" 5 or so hours of driving.

the reason i should've taken my camera was that about 15 minutes into my drive, i saw, in two neighbouring paddocks..... a camel.... and an alpaca.. okkher...

driving is a whole lot less stressfull now the speedo works (t'anks seamus)

it's funny to.... every speed sign i see i go... okay... 80... now one 5th of 50mph is 10 so 3/5's of that is 30 ... that added to 50 is 80...great.. i go 50..

i only just did the maths from one of my straight line "lets-see-what-this thing-can-do" bursts..... and using my above formula...

if we say

3(y/5)+y=128

i can say.... "I got it up to y mph"



other than that... i'm really impressed with my cooling system... after about an hour of driving upto and equal to y mph, the reading on my temp gauge said about 50 degrees... i was sure that was wrong so i stopped to do a feel check because i knew it was going to be red hot.

but no... i could rest my hand on the radiator cap within 30 seconds of stopping the car.....nice....

mind you .... the air temp was a bit chilly... but at about noon when i was in the city and it had warmed up abit.... it still didn't go above 80....good thing.....

and it only used half a tank .... nice one mini....

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(mph / 10) * 16 is easier IMO

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Bling me up Scotty!
"wait till it grows into a plant...then bunny rabbit THE PLANT!"

1966 Morris Mini DeLuxe FOR SALE

yeah.. but i wanted to keep my mind busy.... my stereo was flat

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40=60
50=80
60=100
90=whoa

lol...my mini tops out around 55 well it did when it was in 1 piece

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Bling me up Scotty!
"wait till it grows into a plant...then bunny rabbit THE PLANT!"

1966 Morris Mini DeLuxe FOR SALE

thats prolly why its not in one piece anymore?

my wife used to drive my mini at 110k's /h but when I told her that when the needle shakes thats a bad thing she didn't do it anymore.
it cruises nicely at 100 tho.
what does this mean? does it have a strong motor or are we revvin it too hard?

yeah it never was a star performer...bit of a slug...998 that's rolled over...so its done what? 107,000miles...

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Bling me up Scotty!
"wait till it grows into a plant...then bunny rabbit THE PLANT!"

1966 Morris Mini DeLuxe FOR SALE

is it really



Did it have any left Mr Cush?

i thinks you should have had a bit more of a go,
or was 80 all it could do

my old boss back in his day of the 850, back in his 'courting' days as we all joke about , told me one day of how he had his mini out at 85mph, what a mean bastard

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I'm not sure of my top speed, as the speedo is currently out-to-lunch.

However, how fast is 5500rpm in 4th?

I've pulled 6500 in third, at Mallala, of course

Oh, and i dragged an EF XR6 Falcon on Saturday night, as i started to get past him, flat knackers in second, his face looked a little shocked. Har har har har.

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Yes, even I was scared, being in the co-pilot seat.
fiddle sticks the LS has some balls.
LOVES to rev.

Oh, and the 'bitches' in his car loved it

who dat and i were driving through the hills to see what difference his new 45 weber made. i am not sure what difference it had made as it was always quick. hugh reckons it gave it him a few more HP but a s*** load more torque.

we got to 70 mile an hour. that was great fun!! alomst brown trousers stuff- but i love discs!

i want a new engine.... a fast one

matt

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It would seem that you need to come for a quick hoon in the LS.

I have almost double the power of Hugh.

Sure made willy go rather quiet. Hahahaha. Damn that thing sticks to the road

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depends on your diff of course.... but in 4th with a 3.4, every 1000 rpm is 15mph, hence 60mph is 4000 rpm, so your 5500 rpm is 82.5 (or thereabouts ), and 100mph is 6000 rpm

not from where i'm sitting on your tail.. while you get airborne/do handbrakies
You might have some competition brewing here from whodat.
Who's idea was it to tell him he needed a weber anyway? eh?