Finally …

Posted on by Ian C.

… I reached 1250 miles tonight! Run-in miles officially over (though they were unofficially over at various times last Sunday).
Interesting to read what Carnuts Garage has to say about run-in miles:
… Once the break-in period is over, it is not a signal for “anything goes”. Gradually increase your RPM limit over the next thousand miles or so …

Yeah, well …

I have filled GBMINI#3 four times now, with calculated MPGs of 27.8, 24.8, 23.7 and 25.6; an overall average of 25.56.
This is about as low as my worst MPG on GBMINI#2 (and that was with the 210hp JCW upgrade!)
Obviously the automatic transmission has a significant effect on miles-per-gallon (some people claim it also hurts “smiles-per-gallon”!)

Driving Las Vegas

Posted on by Ian C.

(I am slacking, I should have posted these pics last week!)

While I was in Las Vegas on vacation recently, I delivered some auto-up-windows MINI circuits to Sin City MINI Club; Agro met me at the Mandalay Bay hotel, and very kindly took me for a drive along the Las Vegas strip in a MINI 🙂

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Thank you Agro; hope the MINI circuits all installed easily!