same

I do about 450km a week in mine.
Cheers Pete

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Another study found Aussies drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year
That means, on average, Australians get about 41 miles per gallon

Kind of makes you proud to be an AUSSIE

Same same

Except every time I mention it I get "Yeah, but you're young"

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Same same same.

I do a ~50km trip and back each day.

Well, I did when my gearbox worked - but I will be doing so again soon!

It looks like some really nice work there in the conversion. Can i ask that the next video you do, can you go really slowly so we can get a good look at it?

I think people can convert a mini to suzuki power quite cheaply. Con Torisi did the engine in NG's car himself and at very low cost I believe. It is unfair to compare a stock G13B with a highly modified A series. The G13B can also be worked and they respond very well to better inlet manifolds, solid lifters, high rev ceiling, replacemetn ecu etc. I think they'll easily match an A series for potential power output and be must more robust when there. Read Bill Sherwoods page about the Sports 1300 class and how they cam to use those engines in very mild tune to replace the earlier corolla motors. They got equal power with very few mods and the engines lasted years, not races between re-builds.

M

Nah, Con "re-built" one that the Yeagar brothers from Alstonville had already made years before & i believe that is the car NG owns now?

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

I thought Con rebuilt the purple clubbie (I think it temporarily lived up in Toowoomba before Con had it), then built the yellow one himself..? That's going off some old memories of some rather old websites... I could very easily be wrong.

yeah that`s right, sorry, but either way he did have an already made frame to go from

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

From what Tony Yeager told me Matt, Con didnt make any modifications to the brown clubby - he just bought it and drove it....

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yeah but from what Con told me , the original Yeager subframe kept cracking up, & from my memory the thing cracked about 5 times while the Yeagers had it.

So Con decided to make his new frame slightly different to help avoid the same problems

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Gotcha - I knew there was some rework in there somewhere, but no mods. Seems to not be the case....

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tested all parts in one test just for fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKsuVvDJ0mo

i have a diy kit for gti seats in to mini for about $250 .
will upload video in the next day or so
thx
jason

68 turbo gti mini 95% done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSo2jnTOeJU