Daily Driven
Martin S.:
I'm lucky to have a nice little highway drive to work where I can sometimes stretch its legs and surprise all the Audi's and Porsches on my morning drive. There's a nice short downhill over the rail yards just before the ramp to the elevated Gardiner expressway where I can blast down the hill, grab second and slide sideways with the Yokohama's slipping just right before pointing it up the ramp and blasting into the merge lane, still in thrid, and with my new 3.88 RP I can sit in third for a moment and then nail it, moving over to the big boy lane before shifting to fourth. Those are the good days and I don't need a coffee when I get to work with some of those 150 km blasts, the turbo smelling hot as I park it and run in to the punch clock every day. On my way home I usually take the very Victorian style Queen St. and putt along in first or second checking out the action in the bars and sidewalks full of people. The street pic is when there was some kind of impromptu organized bicycle parade or demo which went on for several city blocks. You can see my left mirror in the pic. ;D
Martin S.:
I wore out the front tires on my car on my longer drive with a different job 3 years ago (185s). I kept drifting it thru the ramps and probably had too low front tire pressure making the front end slide. That was really fun! :P
modnrod:
Quote from: 67jason on October 12, 2016, 14:42:43 pm
2180cc
DPR 82mm crank
AA Thickwall 92's
Engle FK7
Custom ported and polished 044 heads
CR 8.02:1
SCAT 1.4 Rockers
CB 1 1/2 inch heater box exhaust system
45 dellorto's
Ran on Roger Crawfords chassis dyno 2 years ago - 135hp @ 5200, 145 Ftlbs @ 3900
I've got nothing, sorry! My '73 Super is years away (too much fun pottering around it after work!), and my '06 NB is doing the job.
My last ACVW daily was a basic tweaked 1641 with DCNFs and good heads in a '61, stock cam with 1.4s.
I always wondered what the FK-7 (or the 86a) would be like as a daily in a little engine.
Those peak points suggest it may have worked really well.
flatfire:
Not daily driven but driven all day :) Trying to figure my gearing out on my gearbox. Around 1.05 4th. My wife was good enough to drive her car in front of the bug to see if my 70 on the speedo was actually 70 mph. Way out by 6mph.
Martin S.:
You can get a free app to read your speed (gps app). I checked my cars and it's good to know. My 71 van speedo read more than 5 mph optimistic and I think that's one of the reasons that the original engine is in such good shape still (never overheated).
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