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Vipers
16-07-2002, 17:21
I just want to drive some where anywhere and fast!!! but so long as there is multiple opti stations on the route,

ohhh thats a point does anyone have a map of all the optimax stations in uk????????
Paul_S13
16-07-2002, 17:50
www.shell.co.uk they have a search facility.
SteveCarter200
16-07-2002, 19:09
Drive to Colchester, I'm bored too.
Vipers
17-07-2002, 09:06
heheh, i probably would have if i had read it, and also if my g/f went swimming with me sister, but they couldn't go cuz my sisters imobiliser on her car is bu99ered
Maverick
17-07-2002, 09:12
If you go up and down the A14/A1/A1M, you can max it on the 4 lane bit of the A1M near Peterborough and then fill up with Optimax on the A14 near Cambridge. There are no speed cameras on the A1M, but a few on the A14.

I got an indicated 150 just before Peterborough. What is that in real money?
Vipers
17-07-2002, 09:42
yeah thats the stretch that i got my indicated 119mph in my rover 214 sli 16v!!

but you should be able to get an indicated 150mph in ur 200 on almost any road!

its roughly 150 mph - 5%(ish) then give or take a couple of mph
Maverick
17-07-2002, 09:46
In the TSC feature in Banzai, they reckon and S13 at an indicated 150 is just doing 130.

Do any of you who went to the TSC have a note of what the indicated speed was for the GPS recorded speed?
MERLIN
17-07-2002, 09:50
I was clocked at 139 mph at TSC
On the dash it was reading 147mph ish
:) :)
Vipers
17-07-2002, 10:13
just under 6% over read so my prediction of roughly 5% over read +/- a couple mph weren't to bad at all!
Maverick
17-07-2002, 10:26
Still pretty quick, eh?
MERLIN
17-07-2002, 10:37
Well it got to differ from car to car
I had bigger wheels and a slightly larger rolling diameter tyre on
And it also depends on how worn the tyres are
:)
Vipers
17-07-2002, 10:47
yeah it's crazy, i think that if a car is going to have a speedometer (which they all do and have to have) it should be accurate at anyspeed.

like the ones that work on magnetic flux are really quite accurate, would look quite wikid with a digital display as well, bit like knight rider!:)
Maverick
17-07-2002, 11:32
At least speedos read fast, not slow. We would all have problems with the police if speedometers were telling us 85 when we were actually doing 95!!
Vipers
17-07-2002, 11:52
ahhh you worries about the mnor details anyway :D
Maverick
17-07-2002, 11:54
I normally just look at the revcounter and check that there is no traffic in front!! ;)
Vipers
18-07-2002, 14:02
don't even do that, just keep foot flat unless someone is in front, let it go all the way up but ten sometimes use brakes if a jag v12 just pulls into outside lane and refuses to go faster than 80:mad: