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Rick
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emmerson
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I had a stick-on front number plate on my 100E. That made it go faster!  |
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Keith D
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Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Not a tuning goody, but it may be of interest, so I'll bend the thread a bit!
We have a gadget in West Australia that country drivers swear by. It's a sort of whistle that fits on the front bumper or just below it and operates by the air passing through it. It is claimed that they stop kangaroos jumping out in front of your car. (Hit a 'roo at speed and you've written your car off!) It's a very real problem in the bush!
It cannot be heard by the human ear so it has a lot of sceptics. However, when I've been working up in the North-west, my hire cars have had them fitted and I've never hit a 'roo yet.
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Peter_L
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Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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| Keith D wrote: | Not a tuning goody, but it may be of interest, so I'll bend the thread a bit!
We have a gadget in West Australia that country drivers swear by. It's a sort of whistle that fits on the front bumper or just below it and operates by the air passing through it. It is claimed that they stop kangaroos jumping out in front of your car. (Hit a 'roo at speed and you've written your car off!) It's a very real problem in the bush!
It cannot be heard by the human ear so it has a lot of sceptics. However, when I've been working up in the North-west, my hire cars have had them fitted and I've never hit a 'roo yet.
Keith |
There is a similar unit widely available on the American Continent, known as a "Deer Alert" it is said to emit ultrasonic sound. The effectiveness is controversial.
See link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_horn
Off topic: Here in New Brunswick, more people die in car accidents related to hitting moose, than any other single cause. Hitting deer is not good, but hitting a moose, that can stand 7ft high and weigh around a 1000 lbs is even worse.
Moose are 100% unpredictable and at night they are very difficult to see because their eyes are higher than the normal spread of headlights. Unlike many animals they tend to not look at the lights of an approaching vehicle, also their coats do not reflect much light. |
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Peter_L
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Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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I had "Go Faster" stripes on my 1964 Mini and an alloy rocker cover.
I wish I could remember why I bought that cover, which unlike the stripes, did nothing to improve performance. |
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Dipster
Joined: 06 Jan 2015
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Location: UK, France and Portugal - unless I am travelling....
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:36 am Post subject: Low weight and cost, great results |
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| Furry dice always added speed to many cars...... |
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Riley Blue
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Location: Derbyshire
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:56 am Post subject: Re: Low weight and cost, great results |
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| Dipster wrote: | | Furry dice always added speed to many cars...... |
They still do in my Riley 
My first car, a Mini Traveller, was fitted with a Peco exhaust, steering column adjuster, extending seat brackets, slip-on 'rally' seat covers, quickly removable grille buttons and probably a whole load of other junk I've forgotten over time.
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Hi
Riley541's mention of seat extenders on his mini reminded me that I fitted them in a driving school car, but instead fo using bolts to fasten the seat to the extensions I used pins with holes in the end without the the head (I can't find a picture bu they were like an unthreaded bolt with a round head and a hole drilled at right angles at the other end for a split pin) these were inserted from outside towards the middle of the seat, I then used a single spring hooked through those holes to tension the "pins" towards each other.
This ploy enabled me to very quickly change the seat position from the front position to the rear in order to easily adjust between either a very tall pupil or a very short one.
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kevin2306
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back in the day I had a mini 850cc, Decided to fit the twin carbs and manifold off a 1300gt, minilights, bucket seats and 1300 gt steering wheel.
looked great but the carbs didnt do much for the power output...the joys of youth eh
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goneps
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| Penman wrote: | | ...pins with holes in the end without the the head (I can't find a picture bu they were like an unthreaded bolt with a round head and a hole drilled at right angles at the other end for a split pin) |
Presumably you mean clevis pins.
On the good old Herald I'd fitted a pair of one-touch rocker switches, peeping out from the carpet overlap either side of the handbrake. One was a headlamp flasher, the other gave a single sweep of the wipers in the days long before intermittent wipers had been thought of. The flasher probably did increase (average) speed on an otherwise standard 11/50 by clearing away the right-lane hoggers before I had to slow down.
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Penman
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Hi goneps
That's the word, clevis pins, kept thinking cotter but knew that was wrong.
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goneps
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Hullo Penman,
Yes, I'm afraid 'cotter' is a much over-used and misused term. Confusingly, Americans insist upon calling split pins 'cotter pins', and many who should know better refer to valve collets as cotters. 'Cotter pin' actually means the type of round locating pin with a lengthwise tapered flat, with or without thread and nut on one end, as used to secure kingpins, bicycle cranks, etc.
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Rusty
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Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
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| Keith D wrote: | Not a tuning goody, but it may be of interest, so I'll bend the thread a bit!
We have a gadget in West Australia that country drivers swear by. It's a sort of whistle that fits on the front bumper or just below it and operates by the air passing through it. It is claimed that they stop kangaroos jumping out in front of your car. (Hit a 'roo at speed and you've written your car off!) It's a very real problem in the bush!
It cannot be heard by the human ear so it has a lot of sceptics. However, when I've been working up in the North-west, my hire cars have had them fitted and I've never hit a 'roo yet.
Keith |
I'v hit about 20 "Roos" over the years and about the only car I have never hit any in had "shoo roos" fitted when we bought it so I recon they work !
As for "performance" mods, I had a mild high lift long duration camshaft and triple SU carbs on my old HR Holden when a young bloke, I always thought they improved the performance. My fuel station owner thought they were a very good idea ! |
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Ray White
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| goneps wrote: | Hullo Penman,
Yes, I'm afraid 'cotter' is a much over-used and misused term. Confusingly, Americans insist upon calling split pins 'cotter pins', and many who should know better refer to valve collets as cotters. 'Cotter pin' actually means the type of round locating pin with a lengthwise tapered flat, with or without thread and nut on one end, as used to secure kingpins, bicycle cranks, etc.
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The 1/2" king pins on my Austin 7 are held by a cotter pin with a half moon cut out. This catches out the novice fitter who thinks it has to be removed first when it only needs loosening to remove the king pin. |
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peter scott
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The 1/2" king pins on my Austin 7 are held by a cotter pin with a half moon cut out. This catches out the novice fitter who thinks it has to be removed first when it only needs loosening to remove the king pin. |
Aha, but the hard part of cotter pin removal is the very act of slackening it! The threaded part is of smaller cross section than the "half moon" and given that you can't pull them out you have to apply pressure to the threaded end which usually collapses before the "half moon" is released.
Once released it's neither here nor there whether you choose to remove it or not.
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