Michael Rainbird! Revs 1999
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As i made my way to the bog the other night to have a cracking shite i realised i had nothing to read so i raided my cupboard on the way and selected a magazine from in the random stack...
Had to chuckle when i came to this ...
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Had to chuckle when i came to this ...
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I believe the feature was done at Alconbury as I worked up there around that time, I think it was a few years later Martin took the Mondeo up there and showed everyone how its done
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Shame they stopped doing it, suppose it could still happen as long as you don't mind dodging 20 foot containers !
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It's odd, my old home built moonstone RWD saff was rollling roaded at 369.8bhp (the .8 matters!
) , it was slightly low comp, 7.7:1, valve cut outs, a ported & polished head with twin BD14's , greens with a T34.48, live mapped, good cooler & exhaust,and it went like an absolute bastard compared to any other cossie that was running greys etc. The only thing I ever got duffed up by was a white Escos running 500+ Bhp with an Indian guy driving it, that was a FAST car!
Seriously, I don't know what was different about that car to anything else, might be the cams? But it just used to pull 5th gear so hard until the 7.7k limiter. I ended up stuffing it into a hedge at 30Mph
(don't ask), probably a good thing really as going through rear diffs as consumables & a set of rear boots every month was getting kinda expensive, and I drove everywhere sideways like a fucking lunatic, not a day went by without a 150+Mph run!
...Still think that car was the best road cossie I ever owned, it just destroyed everything including bikes, 1000's excepted!
Just goes to show that even today a sorted rear drive cossie is still a mentally fast road car, not many things around that weigh in at circa 1200Kgs with 350+Bhp a chip change away?
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Seriously, I don't know what was different about that car to anything else, might be the cams? But it just used to pull 5th gear so hard until the 7.7k limiter. I ended up stuffing it into a hedge at 30Mph
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Just goes to show that even today a sorted rear drive cossie is still a mentally fast road car, not many things around that weigh in at circa 1200Kgs with 350+Bhp a chip change away?
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