Why does my patrol struggle to do 115-120......the ANSWER

G'day Wayne-o
Is that Kate holding the Trevally in the second photo?? Looks like her - or someone very similar...
Drew

"A massive increase" ??? of 7.5% ??

Thanks for the update Wayne.

Its definately got me thinking!

Now if only i could find the $$$$

So instead of driving over the RR road block doing 85, you will be able to jump right over the top. LOL
geez some people are wankers but it had a huge number of replies.
Hopefully the RR driver has fullfilled his promise and left the site.

Ooh What A Feeling !!! Just kidding. Good to hear you had a good result

cheers

G'day Wayne.
Did you get your work done in Perth, or in the Pilbara?
Who did you use, and were you happy with them?
Cheers, Cam.

Fantastic work wayne...130+ wow!.. but I thought the speed limit was 110 even in Karratha.
Can't wait to have you rip past me and family on our next trip.

What sort of $$$ to get the dyno and check over?
Nick

Good to see the gremlins have been found and sorted.

True story.....a neighbour of mine's son is a highway patrol officer in NSW. Was talking with him about the car and campervan that run into our dam the other day, and generally complaining about drivers who don't drive to the road conditions, and he mentioned out of the blue that he has had a run of opposite problems lately with Landrover drivers going too slow. He has pulled over 3 this month because they were more than 15kph under the posted limit. They were each breath tested and questioned about drug use as standard practice. He was saying the slower driver is usually unaware of the impact their lack of courtesy has on the rest of the drivers.

Change subject.
When you did this upgrade to your car was the piston undercrown cooling boosted??

Why would you want 18psi?

If it happily sits on 130 now, why would you want to put unneeded stress and pressure on your engine?

Many respected Traffic Engineers have for years held the belief (attested to by accident statistics) that overtaking is one of the riskiest maneuvers facing the driver of a vehicle. The theory being that if all vehicles traveled at the same speed there would be no build up in numbers of vehicles following a slower moving vehicle thus no need to overtake therefore a reduction in the risk and lower road toll. This has been discussed at length in WA with the State speed limit of 110kph and the maximum speed of heavy vehicles is 100kph thereby necessitating that cars must continually overtake trucks. Perhaps this is what the Patrolman meant and why on freeways there is a minimum as well as a maximum speed and if you are outside of either you are liable to be booked. Perhaps those who wish to travel at 80kph in a 110kph zone (as they are obviously not on a time schedule) as a matter of courtesy to the scores of vehicles behind them should pull over occasionally, collect some wood, boil the billy, have a lie down. I wonder if those same drivers are the ones that by "strange coincidence" increase their speed to that which is posted when a passing lane appears or move into the right passing lane and sit on the same speed as those in the left thereby preventing us all, which when safe to do so, have the right to drive at the posted maximum speed. Just as they have the right to travel below the posted limit. If only those who drafted the Road Traffic Code could have included rules covering courtesy and that very uncommon commodity "common sense".