I'm not sure anything broke but they had trouble with crankcase ventilation and had to redesign it. Or so I have been told ??

Al

Not to mention the whole 1000cc limit thing.....

Latest on Facebook, 151.087 first run and 156.045 mph on return run. They havnt posted the final average results yet and may do another run?
pretty amazing for a A series "1000cc" ?? mini even if it is slightly modified with afew add ons.

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1969 Cooper "S"
1967 Mini Deluxe
1973 Clubman Van (the fleet spare)
1978 ex 1275 LS ("Wizard" Eaton Supercharged)
2015 HSV GenF GTS(occasional drive & tow car)
2019 MINI F55 Cooper S

It pro'lly doesn't mean much but the car is being promoted as a "970" Cooper S so it possibly uses an s crank etc.

Al

absolutely amazing



yep, a 970 Cooper S crank

I'm sure they well and truly comply with the under 1000cc regulation - they'd be nuts to try and bend the rules - but the 970 crank is probably the best one to take therevs required and the amount of boost they'd be putting through it

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

Hope this link works

Al

http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwis-break-land ... fault.aspx

It works

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1969 Cooper "S"
1967 Mini Deluxe
1973 Clubman Van (the fleet spare)
1978 ex 1275 LS ("Wizard" Eaton Supercharged)
2015 HSV GenF GTS(occasional drive & tow car)
2019 MINI F55 Cooper S

Someone should make a movie about this.....

Dicko.

Got this last report from them this morning.

Al


Well it been a busy few days since our last update. Sorry for letting it drift. You may have heard the news already but things have gone well.

I just checked back and it looks like when we last sent an email we had just qualified for a record run. The next day we were on the Salt before dawn and had about 45 minutes to prep the car. All the cars in impound were then towed to the start lines and began their gave it a good go.

On our qualifying run we recorded 142.103mph on mile two. Our record run we recorded 151.087mph to give us an average of 146.6mph. A new record. Needless to say we were stoked, especially so when Nelson said the car was still accelerating at the end of mile 2. All that remained was the formality of a post record tech inspection.

The car was in good shape so we lined up again. This time the thinking was to run to the end of mile 3, giving more time to get to the car's potential top speed. It worked, with the timing ticket showing 156.045mph! As far as we know, thats the fastest speed ever recorded for a classic Mini.

The Cooper went straight back to its parking spot in the impound and after checking the car over we went back to the campsite, again pretty stoked.

The next day was Friday, last chance for record runs. We were there before dawn again and did our prep but soon discovered another wee gremlin that we weren't able to fix in time to do the run. We were disappointed of course but we were still going home with a record, plus we still have the timing ticket that shows we broke 150mph, a crazy speed for a vehicle designed to be a space and fuel efficient city car. Given an extra hour or two we might have had a record over 150mph. Thats not up to us though, thats up to the gods of speed.

So, what next? Firstly we're all heading home, some towing the Cooper to a container in LA, some taking the long way and taking in the sights, others flying out of Salt Lake City today.

We'll be getting together all the images, deleting all the rubbish ones and putting them up somewhere for everyone to see, plus we've got enough footage to make up a wee film of the whole experience. If theres enough interest, we might put together a book. Let us know what you'd like to see.

Finally we'd like to say thanks to all of our amazing sponsors, crew, 150 Club members and supporters, including the 1400 plus supporters who joined us on Facebook.

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Mike Wilson - Project 64

another link

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motoring/news ... d=10828009

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Bluey-1973 Clubby - 1330, high lift, big cam, 7 port madness in progress..

Gumby-1978 Minivan, British Racing Green - 1310, high lift, mild cam, enlarged porting and chamber shape with big valve head, supercharged build in ever slow progress!

Flipping awesome to see they broke the record!!

World's fastest under 1000cc car - yee hah!!!

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

Didn't MiniMania USA have the old Mini speed record with a S/C one? Anybody got a link to the records?
All I found is this, which is useless-
http://www.bonnevilleracing.com/land-speed-records.asp

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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.

Well done.. See Kiwi's can Fly..

So could I with a $100k budget

Hi smac,

NZ$100K is quite a modest budget when building and running something like this car and I am sure there are many who have far exceeded that and got nowhere near setting a record. In fact, I think they have achieved brilliant results on quite a limited budget and they deserve nothing but praise, admiration and respect.

Regards

Al