100k

[Tim S]

Hi all

Finally got to 100k today, on the A701 near the Beef Tub - the same route as I took it on its first drive from Murrays 16 years ago.

In summary:
- Approx 250 laps of the 'Ring
- Various laps at KH, Brands, Oulton, Spa, Croft & more
- Trips to the Alps (a few times) and Spain (twice)
- Happy memories of lots of Borders runs
- and, I estimate, about 600 trips up and down the M90 for work
- Only once failed to complete a journey (HGF)

[hendeg]

Awesome. Smiles per pound?

250 laps of the ring is some going.

[ed]

Nicely done!

[campbell]

Tim that’s brilliant!

Our “100k run” took in the Beef Tub too. Spooky! Class, though.

Congrats for making it that far

What an amazing set of stats.

[IanD]

Impressive.
Sounds like lots of fun had.

Done many upgrades to your car in the 100k ?

[Tim S]

Hi all

Yes, many Ring laps back before the kids were born and I could disappear off to Germany for days at a time. Had a season ticket one year.

Upgrades - nothing much. Various bits over the years but now all about back to standard apart from some Nitrons. Car's still plenty fast - it's me that's slowing down!

Cheers

Tim

[mckeann]

congrats. i reckon i must have done about 60K in my S1 in 4.5 years, bought it just shy of 40K and sold just shy of 100K. I have absolutely no idea what i did in the S2 135R in the next 3 years after that tbh, tried to block the S2 memories from my mind

[Sanjøy]

Great achievement! Treating her to a tank of super?!

[robin]

No point - the 111S VVC engine doesn't have a knock sensor so wouldn't advance timing to take advantage of the super - you would just have slightly longer unburnt hydrocarbon chains in the exhaust (probably still burning, in fact - I wonder if you can damage an engine by running it on 98 or 100 RON fuel?).

[Sanjøy]

No point - the 111S VVC engine doesn't have a knock sensor so wouldn't advance timing to take advantage of the super - you would just have slightly longer unburnt hydrocarbon chains in the exhaust (probably still burning, in fact - I wonder if you can damage an engine by running it on 98 or 100 RON fuel?).

[Sanjøy]

Hijack.

You ever built one of these Robin?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat ... ing_System

[campbell]

That truly is a hijack, Sanj.

If I could remember how, I’d move your post to its own new thread

Have you been drinking again?!

[Sanjøy]

That truly is a hijack, Sanj.

If I could remember how, I’d move your post to its own new thread

Have you been drinking again?!

Just being lazy.

[robin]

No I have not built such a thing ... Campbell something like moderator tools, split thread from memory.

I have worked on some LoRA stuff for one of the companies I help out, and in the dark ages I worked on an X25 radio modem, but never peer-to-peer systems like this one. Are you thinking of making one? I suspect it can be implemented in software on your PC with a sound card plus a simple modulator, or more recently there is a lot of software defined radio activity - so you can buy a board that has a configurable radio transceiver (configurable as in it can be tuned to use any of a wide range of frequencies and the modulations it uses are all software defined). So you could probably make your own APRS system pretty easily, if you wanted to.

Cheers
Robin

[ScottJ-PS]

No point - the 111S VVC engine doesn't have a knock sensor so wouldn't advance timing to take advantage of the super - you would just have slightly longer unburnt hydrocarbon chains in the exhaust (probably still burning, in fact - I wonder if you can damage an engine by running it on 98 or 100 RON fuel?).

I always use 97 or 98 in my standard Rover engine . Doesn't the super have better detergents for keeping the engine clean? or am I wasting my money ?