224.1 miles

... is what a Quota will do per tankful commuting when the idiot on
board forgets to refuel again.

I though that the 204 miles I got when I forgot last week was good.

Maybe if I forget even longer I'll get 300 miles per tankful out of
it...

 

224 mile per tank seems pretty good for a Quota. Guzzis are *bastard heavy*
to push about too when they do run out (or when you spend 20 mins with your
well-pregnant wife's assistance trying to bumpstart a Spada, and only after
about 20mins you see the kill switch is 'not on'. Oh my, the language, when
she saw me flick the switch and say "let's give it one more try")

JB

 

Heh.

They're bastard heavy to push along the A14 when the atternator's died
too...

 

AOfeckingL. You've got the later alternator (not Bosch type) on yours? I'm
getting some retrofit regulator & rectifier modules produced by our tame
electronics firm soon. If you still have your old u/s Italian one, can I get
it de-potted and reverse engineered, or at least get a circuit to work from?
Cheers,
JB


jmbyrne_AT_greenyonder.co.uk
(change the colour to the obvious)

 

Mine's a Ducati/Luscher system - regulator & alternator core by
Ducati, windings by Me.

I do have a half-depotted regulator. Actually, I need to give it a
quick check, just in case it still works. It seemed to pack up, and
when I tested the alternator itself, that seemed fine on all tests.

However, the alternator died a few months later, so it could just've
been an intermittent fault there.

If the regulator is dud then I'll send it to you for reverse
engineering with extreme prejudice - I suspect that it'll need a bit
of butchery to get it open..

 

^^^^^^^
'Dewhurst' is my middle name!
Actually we use some pretty horrendous organic chemical nasties to de-pot
resin encapsulated modules these days. Let me know and we'll have a
looksee.
cheers,
JB

 

As I said, "Oh the language".....(and the threats of emasculation)

Fair do's though, she did manage to help bump start the Spada while 8.5
months pregnant! ( I was a little too stoned at the time m'lud)

Luverly. *want*.

No time now to check this out . Maybe later.<snippettyo>

cheers,
JB

PS: I managed 38mpg in the new 323i Sport on the 93 mile run back home with
it. SO manages about 22mpg! (she's discovered the magic "Sport" button.
Arse.

 

I plead the Fifth Amendment on this one.

Don't I wish.

Do it if funds permit. You could even 'hire' Sabine for a lap or twos
instruction? (Steady boy)

AOfeckingL.

JB

 

In
That is just stupidly difficult to do. It's taken me nearly 8 months just to
get the 911 decently sideways, and it's still a bit brown trousers when it
happens. A lap of the Nurburgring in a silly powerful turbo 911 whilst
sideways most of the time would probably give me a heart attack of seismic
proportions.


--
Pete M - Scouse Git Extraordinaire
Alfa 155, Ford Capri (still dead), Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2
OMF#9

"This is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules"

 

In

I once tried chasing a well driven Lotus Exige in the 911. The third big
sideways moment was enough to persuade me to let the little Lotus go..

Ho yuss indeedy. Mine's an '84 and not even remotely quiet. Later ones are
far, far more useable. They've got a clutch you only need one leg for, but
they somehow lack the charisma of the older "hedge cutter" 911.

--
Pete M - Scouse Git Extraordinaire
Alfa 155, Ford Capri (still dead), Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2
OMF#9

"This is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules"

 

Bear said...

As I've always said of 911s, great handling, shite roadholding.

 

^^^^^^^^^^

you mispelt "tree surgeon"


JB

 

Bear said...

It's reckoned that 96% of all Porsches ever made are still in existance
in one way or another. I suppose that could mean there are an awful lot
of them sitting in paintshops awaiting bodyshell rebuilds.

 

Bear said...

Can't remember exactly where, but I think it was one of the posher
classic car mags I used to read when that sort of thing was important to
me. The firm I used to work for supplied Porsche leather seat covers.
ISTR thinking along the same lines as yourself, but in the big scheme of
porsche production they made the 924 for a relatively short period of
time. Thinking on it that way would mean that 924 figures would be a
drop in the ocean of total Porsche production and hence not make much of
a difference when it came to scrapped car figures[1].

[1] A quick google turns this up http://www.connact.com/
~kgross/FAQ/944faq03.html. It would appear that they made very few 924s
really. I couldn't find 911 figures.

 

Bear scribbled on the back of a napkin:

AFAIR the last figure I saw Porsche throw around was around the 80%
mark.

 

I describe it to myself when driving as the inertial point of view:
you have a ton of metal travelling in a given direction and the road
goes in another - it doesn't matter which way you aim the slab of
metal as long as you can influence the direction of travel
sufficiently to keep it between the hedges and away from telegraph
poles.

Well, exactly. That's where my 5%-in-hand-for-shit-moments comes out
of the bag. A good friend of mine blew a windfall on a big shiny
Porker, took the offered Performance Driving School course and died
three days later on a road he knew like the back of his hand. Popped
an overtake but on the way back across the white line crossed a hump
in the road (a bit like Bear's Leap only smaller) which put the Porker
into a hyuuge slide which he stayed with - all the way into the ditch
on the other side of the road. The front of the car was fifty feet
from the rear and the engine was another fifty feet beyond that - all
neatly lined up in the ditch.

 

You can tell he's the bollocks from Turn One, though - pokes it in,
lets it run all the way out to the kerb and decks it.

Did you notice in the in-car shots how he twitches the wheel the way
he wants to go and then immediately floors it, letting the rear steer
him where he wants to be? The helicopter shots show how the front
wheels rarely seem to be pointing in the same direction as the vector
of travel ;-)

The driver must be some sort of God though - there's no way a mere
mortal can steer one of them on the throttle like that, not to the
extent of smoking the tyres the way he does. **** knows how much
power that thing has and what speed he's doing while he's doing it but
it must come into the category of "lots".

 

Well although he could get round some of those corners quicker I guess
it was for the camera and it is deeply impressive all the way, those are
tail happy little bitches.

 

He would have been. It was on his way home in the wee hours, on the
only half-mile straight and he went past a van "doing 60" like a
train. The Investigator couldn't calc the speed as the skidmarks were
diagonal apparently, and of course the car was still travelling when
it went into the ditch. I assume he'd have been flat in top.

The initial impact, the inquest stated, was to the F/O/S, then the car
snapped round 180, hit a tree amidships and broke up. Ended up
'facing' the wrong way, nearside wiped out, in three big pieces and
lots of little ones.

 

Just the standard high output factory turbo option. The unblown cars are
better road machines IMHO.