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Definitely not standard, the standard 182 exhaust looks like two little pea shooters that don't fill the bumper cut-outs.

So could I take any old Mini and make a wide arch model by adding bigger wheels, or does it have to be one to begin with?

Do the axles have to be extended to fit the wide arches, or is there some kind of Cooper conversion that gets done? Noob questions, as I have no clue about Minis, I just want one at some point so I can learn car mechanics and build something cool.

Cheers mate, i'll look into it.

It was the tight gear linkage that got me, it felt so solid! In mine today i've realised how much play there is in neutral and in each gear, and that's even with a polybushed dogbone, it was even worse before. I have to find that stiff shift kit for mine.

I think he meant your inlet manifold mate.

The two cars I want most in the world are an old Land Rover and a Mini, some of the wide arch ones are amazing. I'd really like to have one as a project and spend my spare time doing a ground up restoration.

Have you got the KR steering wheel yet and when's the dash going in?

Well after a full belt service & dephaser, the only things left to do on my car are uprated engine mount, whiteline arb, polybush the wishbones and maybe the front arb. Then it's track day time. After that it's all cosmetic such as pro race 1.2s or 3s (haven't decided yet), a better steering...

I was going to grow a few of my thicker dreadlocks longer and use those, i'm saving all the dog hair to sell as exhaust wadding, extra 10bhp.......the rollers proved that.

Haha, couple of kilos at least I think.

I wonder if I should wipe all the sh*te off my dash? The thing is people pay good money to have a flocked dash to avoid glare, i've got the same effect through pure laziness. :approve: B*llocks to cleaning the back though, the dog will just f*ck it up again the next day. My approach to...

Maybe I should have said birds instead of girls. :S

My best mate had a white XR3i and we used to stop at bus stops and ask random girls if they'd like a lift, f*cking loads of them would get in the car. lol

I lost my virginity in the early 90s round the back of the Dog & Trumpet in Cov with a girl I went to school with, it wasn't untill we'd finished (which didn't take long lol) that I realised we'd been lying in someones puddle of piss! You couldn't make it up. :S XR2's XR3i's RS Turbos &...

Perfect example, it's like i'm back in the 90s trying to get laid round the back of the pub again.

It's not fake I was chatting to him toady at the rr day and in the pub, he just couldn't be arsed with all the abuse so he thought f*ck em' I can't be arsed with it now.

I wish I was flush with money as I would have liked to do a second run with the standard airbox and paper filter, just out of curiosity, be interesting to see the comparison against the V6 box and foam filter. Although I doubt they'd have sat in it again after the first time.

They all have euro2 connectors I think, so should just plug straight into the back of the cage/HU.

All of my Clio's dark history is down to me I think. lol

Today proved that Alsation hair wadding in your exhaust gives you an extra 10bhp.

Placebo effect. ;) How often do you boot it to near redline? Power run could have blown the cobwebs out of it by giving it some welly.

I know it's a can of worms, but are their rollers reliable? I did hear someone say they're quite conservative so more accurate than most.

Tbh I don't think i'd be able to make it mate, the extra bank holiday has f*cked up all my wages, i've just paid out £200quid on a new radiator, and i've got to find £230quid for this Wednesday as I have to pay half my car insurance. Also i've got about £50quid left to my name and i'll need...

Same here, my graph looks like it had more to give.

I never noticed how bad the parcel shelf is, it's hairier than the dog himself!! In my defence I tend to look forwards when i'm in the car. ;)

I was alright with them until they treated my car like a f*cking leper. :S

I wish I still knew all the techno hippys I used to travel with, I could have got them to show up, pitch up like they were squatting the place, and blagged the blokes to put ambulance on the rollers we used to do illegal site parties with!! :evil:

It was the guy that got the hazmat plague cover out that got me, I swear he thought he was going to catch some sort of disease off the seat. flol

I noticed my graph only goes to 6630rpm, whereas my car red lines at 7800rpm. Does the dyno stop after peak power's reached or were they just being careful or something?