Pretty cool video
15 February 2014, 05:45 PM
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Pretty cool video
Spotted this on a another forum I think it's pretty cool and worth the watch to kill a bit of time can't wait till episode 4 lol
15 February 2014, 06:48 PM
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Superb stuff, will be watching the other episodes
15 February 2014, 07:12 PM
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These guys are brilliant
I'm going to go and watch the rest of their stuff now.
15 February 2014, 10:44 PM
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Will have to let my brother know sbout this , here's his and my car together
16 February 2014, 07:31 PM
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17 February 2014, 12:54 PM
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Check out the Trueno!!
Google had to help me with that one
Mini does look good, wonder how long the next update will be.
17 February 2014, 01:09 PM
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Lots of power = loads of useless wheel spin for a Mini?
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17 February 2014, 05:11 PM
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Lots of power = loads of useless wheel spin for a Mini?
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Got to admire the skills here though, with not much more than a set of grinders and a welder, no fancy water jets here. Besides it's great entertainment
17 February 2014, 07:08 PM
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Old school engineering at its best. Those manually made jigs are genius.
17 February 2014, 08:11 PM
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Any idea when episode 4 is out?
17 February 2014, 08:54 PM
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Any idea when episode 4 is out?
Probably when they finish making it.
17 February 2014, 09:59 PM
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Episode 4 is supposed to be out end of the month
17 February 2014, 10:16 PM
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Why?
18 February 2014, 06:44 AM
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Why?
Surfeit of power over grip. Unless they're using wide enough boots.
18 February 2014, 07:43 AM
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Here is a good vid of an original mini withe lots of power going around the ring
And embarrassing a few modern cars
18 February 2014, 09:27 AM
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Surfeit of power over grip. Unless they're using wide enough boots.
But they are putting the whole 4wd driveline in, so surely it'll just be like a quicker twitchier Celica
19 February 2014, 09:37 PM
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They've made some great progress this episode. Can't be many more before a road test is in order.
19 February 2014, 10:15 PM
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Haha quality love the wood reference
19 February 2014, 11:35 PM
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That lexarse diff couldn't have fiited, surely
or if it genuinely did, then he must have measured the dimensions and the diff length, so knew it would fit, thats just as unbelievable as well
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Part 5 finally
20 June 2014, 10:59 PM
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Part 6 now up, really enjoying this.
21 June 2014, 12:34 AM
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Where is part 6 ?
Excellent watch just watched 5 episodes back to back
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