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105 verified by gps, 1997 rover cooper sportpack s conversion + a very low suspension set up, long slight downhill sweeping road, isle of mann tt course, quite regular on a section of the road, all legal as we have no overall speed limit. the chap in the bm 328 was suprised yesterday!
Edited by laggeyder on Thursday 10th November 00:28
1360ccm A series, SW5 cam, "MG Metro" bigvalve 12G940 cylinder head very slightly modified (3 angle seat cut ports "smoothened", exhaust valve guide casting reduced), 10,5:1 CR, 1,75 RC40 exhaust LCB, HS6 carb, 2.95 fd ratio 10in wheels aaaaaaaaaaaand a Wolseley Hornet 
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100mph - GPS and still had a bit of steam, but I have four kids soo...
.100mph - GPS and still had a bit of steam, but I have four kids soo...
100 on gps once and 102 across the line leaving vmax one year. (i was meeting a friend, and you have to leave via the runway - it was going faster just over 1/3 of the way down the straight, but i didnt see the point in keeping my foot in) Don't really like taking it above 90 for long periods as the engine is doing 6k+ rpm. Wall-like clubman front doesn't help!
M.e.d 1330, stage 3 head, 276 cam, 1.5 roller rockers, fan delete. 104hp at the flywheel on Aldon automotive rollers.
M.e.d 1330, stage 3 head, 276 cam, 1.5 roller rockers, fan delete. 104hp at the flywheel on Aldon automotive rollers.
Edited by JimexPL on Thursday 10th November 16:38
I got pulled about 2 miles from dover coming down the M20 (just after the round wall tunnels) i had been flat out for a long time and got clocked by the police at over the magical 100mph mark. (I was 18 at the time)
I was let off completly for four reasons I believe.
1: He was massivly into his mini's
2: He said for a very standard looking car (he had inspected the engine bay and tyres/exhaust etc) he had never seen one going that fast and seemingly that stable (if you know the road its a long down hill set of sweeping bends)
3: It was 0600hrs or there abouts, bright summers morning no one about and I blew 0 on the meter (traveling back from a party, where i had been on lemonade all night!)
4: I was honest.
1293cc with a few bits and bobs bolted on......
101mph or somthing he quoted and acclerating, memory is vague, but i remember the speedo needle all the way round to the F of the fuel gauge......
I was let off completly for four reasons I believe.
1: He was massivly into his mini's
2: He said for a very standard looking car (he had inspected the engine bay and tyres/exhaust etc) he had never seen one going that fast and seemingly that stable (if you know the road its a long down hill set of sweeping bends)
3: It was 0600hrs or there abouts, bright summers morning no one about and I blew 0 on the meter (traveling back from a party, where i had been on lemonade all night!)
4: I was honest.
1293cc with a few bits and bobs bolted on......
101mph or somthing he quoted and acclerating, memory is vague, but i remember the speedo needle all the way round to the F of the fuel gauge......
101 gps, still had some more but i wasnt going for a top speed run im sure it had a touch more. 1380 286 cam big valve head, roller rockers, dcoe 45. 1-1 drop gears, jack knight sccr gears 3.7 fd on 10's.
asuming i read correct my rr operator had it up near 120 which show the drag you get!
asuming i read correct my rr operator had it up near 120 which show the drag you get!
Not a mini, but back in 1991 ( aged 18 ) I took my MG Metro Turbo A+ (standard as far as I know )completely off the speedo on the A21 downhill towards Tunbridge Wells. Speedo SAID 130mph, but it was way past that and off the scale revving its nuts off. It did have a dodgy wastegate which would randomly open and then stick open, making me nigh on headbutt the windsreen out of nowhere.. I do remember the steering being insanely light and having to correct 90 degrees both ways just to keep it in the fast lane. THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!!! :-)
One other funny moment I remember, In 1998 I had a 1963 850 Mini Minor we did the London To Brighton in. I had my wife-to-be and 2 6'2" mates in the back. It has possibly the sweetest engine ever in a mini i eencountered, the little 850 was turbine smooth. We were laughing our socks off with the speedo needle hovering around 80mph trying to wring every last mph out of it. In the fast lane I looked up, and all 3 lanes were stationary mostly with minis.... I stood on the drum brakes till my eyeballs popped out, and the car dived hard left from fast lane to slow lane, 45 degrees of terror!! I stopped about 10' from the bumper of another mini. After about 10 seconds we started to see the funny side...
ok just to add to the thread, whats the fastests recorded speed for a standard A/+ engined mini. I'm not talking sprints or special modified shells.
Standard shell, with the minimum of a A series block, this includes alaxander and Arden 7/8 port heads, no 16v bmw heads!!! It needs to be sympathetic to the era of the original final incarnation of the car.
A fully fledged MED super trick engine is acceptable, the shape just needs to be the same. can anyone top 135mph gps?
Standard shell, with the minimum of a A series block, this includes alaxander and Arden 7/8 port heads, no 16v bmw heads!!! It needs to be sympathetic to the era of the original final incarnation of the car.
A fully fledged MED super trick engine is acceptable, the shape just needs to be the same. can anyone top 135mph gps?
Furyblade_Lee said:
I think mini-marcos could hit 140mph down the Mulsane in period, but aerodynamics probobly better. Try to find out some mini miglia speeds, probobly the most representative of whats capable in a "real" mini?
from what i have seen they are diff limited though, 95-110mph, I would love to drop 50k on a med engine classic race car mini and do the historic lemans......the ring might be better suited though, flat out for 70% with all those corners!
Furyblade_Lee said:
I think mini-marcos could hit 140mph down the Mulsane in period, but aerodynamics probobly better. Try to find out some mini miglia speeds, probobly the most representative of whats capable in a "real" mini?
If you look at the Goodwood Revival results for 2011 they had two speed traps operating. Darren Turner, in Nick Swift's 1966 Cooper S - 1293 and on twin SU's - pulled 119.2 mph. A quick car and a fast driver. Modern 7" rims with wide, sticky, tyres and even wider arches only slow the top speed but obviously aid the cornering .And, yes, amazingly a Mini Marcos was timed at around 135mph on the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans in the mid 60's which just goes to show that the Mini has all the aerodynamic qualities of a brick.
chris_w said:
114.5mph on our GPS datalogger. This was on the straights at Goodwood with our 1380 pulling about 8,300 revs on a 3.9 diff. And the solitary wing mirror folded in...
And the spec of this was 1380cc, Omega pistons, iron crank and rods , steel flywheel and backplate, SW22 cam, distributor ignition and Weber 45 exhausting through a maniflow lcb and system .Engine & head are all Swiftune prepared and somewhere in the region of 130bhp, also their dogbox and 3.9 FD. Lavant Straight at Goodwood in the pouring rain- no place for old men. Gassing Station | Classic Minis | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff