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 2742 Posts Member #: 637 Post Whore Hertfordshire |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 04:40:31pm
hi
Edited by JT on 3rd Mar, 2007. My build thread..
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 6965 Posts Member #: 507 Fastest A Series Mini in the World leeds/wakefield. |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 06:08:45pm
loosing weight off you car is a waste of time ,it hardly makes any difference to performance, all it does is bugger up the inertia you had stored in the heavy car, you'll have to relearn all your braking distances all over again, you need aheavy car that presses the tyres onto the tarmac. also a heavy car carries its momentum further when you come off the gas therefore increasing fuel consumpsion, some experts suggest an increase of up to 200% can be seen by increasing you cars weight by as little as 20% of its start weight.
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 1030 Posts Member #: 1291 Post Whore Suffolk / Birmingham |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 06:22:10pm
Proof dating fat birds is a good thing at last! ::) |
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6965 Posts Member #: 507 Fastest A Series Mini in the World leeds/wakefield. |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 06:27:20pm
shure is, |
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 549 Posts Member #: 1347 Post Whore Croydon (South London) |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 07:03:28pm
My rollcentre cage weighs about 35kg. Theres pics in that other post "which rollcage" i think its called. |
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2742 Posts Member #: 637 Post Whore Hertfordshire |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 07:16:31pm
fast carl are you taking the micky??
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Forum Mod  5933 Posts Member #: 784 9 times Avon Park Class C winner Milton Keynes |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 07:26:59pm
On 3rd of Mar, 2007 at 07:16pm josh_tacon said:
fast carl are you taking the micky?? how comes when i have a passenger its slower? :- Hes a northerner, hes being awkward, could you expect anything else? Paul I seriously doubt it! |
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6965 Posts Member #: 507 Fastest A Series Mini in the World leeds/wakefield. |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 07:43:42pm
On 3rd of Mar, 2007 at 07:16pm josh_tacon said:
fast carl are you taking the micky?? how comes when i have a passenger its slower? :- obviously your'e carrying the wrong grade of passenger. And a roll cage that only weighs 35kgs, Pa!!!! mines filled with lead and now weighs 160kgs, its the way forward i tell you,!!!!!!!!! Edited by fastcarl on 3rd Mar, 2007. |
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 2641 Posts Member #: 19 Post Whore newcastle |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 07:50:21pm
carbon fibre costs more so therefore is heavier Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....
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2742 Posts Member #: 637 Post Whore Hertfordshire |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 07:54:47pm
is that like the old test of the telly? the heavyer it is the better??? lol
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6965 Posts Member #: 507 Fastest A Series Mini in the World leeds/wakefield. |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 07:54:58pm
exactly my kind of point,
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 2924 Posts Member #: 95 Post Whore liverpool-on-sea |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 07:57:04pm
fibreglass doors as supllied by mini spare about 3- 4kgs.
no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.
On 28th Nov, 2008 Sprocket said:
Oh now that is a long shaft you have Carl. |
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6965 Posts Member #: 507 Fastest A Series Mini in the World leeds/wakefield. |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 08:08:22pm
On 3rd of Mar, 2007 at 07:57pm Carl said:
fibreglass doors as supllied by mini spare about 3- 4kgs. standards doors with the glass still in and door handles still on. i,e as youd just take them off the car 19kgs clubman standard bonnet 9kgs all weighed on my bathroon scales. and are approx yes but if you rivet some 2mm steel inside the FG doors yoyu can get thetre weight tup to a respectable 12-13 kgs, AH!! thats better, |
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 4559 Posts Member #: 786 Post Whore Bermingum |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 10:19:59pm
Hi,
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2742 Posts Member #: 637 Post Whore Hertfordshire |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 10:41:37pm
are you boys having a race off the side of a cliff by any chance?lol
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 9326 Posts Member #: 59 First mini turbo to get in the 12's & site perv Herefordshire |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 10:48:29pm
not if the race was held in space |
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 6274 Posts Member #: 509 Post Whore Isle of Man |
3rd Mar, 2007 at 11:18:45pm
or indeed on earth... "Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"
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6965 Posts Member #: 507 Fastest A Series Mini in the World leeds/wakefield. |
4th Mar, 2007 at 01:51:15am
you have ti be the fooking awkward one , no body mentioned space ,but you have to go and spoil it , why can't you just play the game.
On 3rd of Mar, 2007 at 10:48pm Nic said:
not if the race was held in space |
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4314 Posts Member #: 700 Formerly British Open Classic The West Country |
4th Mar, 2007 at 09:45:48am
On 3rd of Mar, 2007 at 04:40pm josh_tacon said:
fiberglass front end and removable fiberglass bonnet Josh, I've got one coming in the post, if you wait a week or two I'll weigh it when it arrives, I'll also weight the old panels steel when I cut them off. On 3rd of Mar, 2007 at 07:43pm fastcarl said:
And a roll cage that only weighs 35kgs, Pa!!!! mines filled with lead and now weighs 160kgs, its the way forward i tell you,!!!!!!!!! Carl, I'm appalled, filling a roll cage with lead is something I would expect someone on TMF to do, do it properly, take the whole lot out and fabricate yourself a nice depleted uranium cage. Isambard Kingdom Brunel said:
Nothing is impossible if you are an Engineer |
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2742 Posts Member #: 637 Post Whore Hertfordshire |
4th Mar, 2007 at 12:17:13pm
cheers rob, that would be great.
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