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[RooBoonix]

My SPI happily sits at 60 mph and will gladly pull higher. Haven't gone faster yet though only driven it a couple of times

[daenesh]

i have an A+ clubman 998cc standard did 100 mph on the highway.. revs around 5500-5700 couldn't be sure

[gronkjor]

Fastets I've gone in my MPI with 3.1 FD is 160 kph on the German motorway. That was with two people in the car and some luggage so she could probably add a bit to that on a good day. Not much fun though. Prefer cruising along or a nice twisty bit of road!  

[Dag]

Once did just over 105mph (private road) in a 79 clubman with an mg metro engine fitted was going down a very long hill so took a while to get there, car  felt and sounded like it was going to blow up and was a pretty scary experience indeed more so that it was still running the drum brakes up front. Any car lived and so did i , just wish i still had that clubman now 

[spiguy]

8,5!!

 

4,5 and it's waving a white flag.

 

 

haha mine sounds angry at anything about 90 and thats a 1275, only additional extra is k&n air filter.

90? I take it, that is km/h? I see you're in the UK, surely it's not 90mph? Convert that to km/h and you get 144!! I only get that on eurotunnel!

I strongly suspect she means 90 mph.....   A place I never go! 90km/h at 3000 RPM sounds right, same on my jap mini with km/h clocks. 

I usually cruise about 60 mph, or around 100 km/h on my speedo

[Jedi Master]

My 998cc is my daily driver and goes up and down the M6 every day happily sitting at 70-75mph. No idea on revs as my smiths dial is a bit sticky. I'll be fitting a new one at the weekend so will report back with actuals. I've had Old Blyty up to 80 and still with more in reserve. It has a stage 1 kit with a piper 255 cam and HIF38 carb. Original engine has only done 28k miles and the recent electronic ignition conversion has made a huge difference. Official data says my model has gearing for a max speed of 84mph, but I reckon the mods will see him do more than that with ease. Once the new rev counter is fitted I'll be happy to push on knowing where the risk point is. All on a private road of course! ;)

[Cooperman]

I don't know why we have these 'top speed' threads. It seems as though so many people will claim impossible top speeds, despite the laws of physics determining otherwise, all due to very over-optimistic speedos. In many cases an indicated 90 mph is, in fact, around 80 mph in reality.

[mini_mad69]

Where are all these private roads where you can get a mini up to these speeds? When I had a 998 it would take a month to get to motorway speeds.

 

 

 

If you think your 998 can do 100mph, you are wrong.

[69k1100]

http://www.wallacera...P For Speed.php

 

not that far fetched really, a stock 1100 (provided it puts out all 55 hp it was claimed to have) will be just shy of doing 100mph. 

[Ethel]

Do any of those online calculators allow for drive train losses?

I don't doubt any of these 90+ claims,but then they aren't air speeds measured on the flat.

Maybe we just need to remind ourselves every so often that speeding fast enough to earn an outright ban isn't where the real driving fun is. Inspite of the Top Trumps ethos of the motoring meeja types.

[nicklouse]

No need as you should be looking at wheel BHP

[Ethel]

True, but if you're basing your expectations on a factory quoted 39hp for a 998...

[cooperdan]

Where are all these private roads where you can get a mini up to these speeds? When I had a 998 it would take a month to get to motorway speeds.
 
 
 
If you think your 998 can do 100mph, you are wrong.

😂

when i had my 998.. i topped out at 70mph. The pedal was welded to floor

[Vinay-RS]

I got my 1275 clubby with a single HS4 to 140+km/h indicated (Speedometer doesn't go above that) once

... just once (too scary to repeat that....ever). It was on a very long stretch of road with no other cars on it, in the farmlands of SA.

[Cooperman]

http://www.wallacera...P For Speed.php

 

not that far fetched really, a stock 1100 (provided it puts out all 55 hp it was claimed to have) will be just shy of doing 100mph. 

A Mk.1 Cooper 'S' 1275 won't do 100 mph on the level in still air and that has 75 bhp. Around 96 mph was the road-test figure when the car was first released in 1964.

A 998 Cooper with 55 bhp will do just about 88 mph. An 850 with 34 bhp will top out at about 73 mph.

To reach 100 mph a Mini needs about 83 bhp.

Of course, the gearing will have an impact and the top speeds assume that the car is geared to be pulling its max speed at the revs at which max power is produced, so a higher geared car may be slower in top than a lower geared one pulling high revs.