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Thread: NAM Test Drive and Review of the R56

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02-09-2007, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Yo'sDad

From your engine pictures it appears to me that MINI has turned the engine around with the exhaust in the front and the intake in the back and the flywheeo on the passenger side and the timing chain on the driver's side... am I seeing this correctly?

YD

The engine is mounted the same way... flywheel on the left, accessory belt on the right. The direction of flow has changed. It is now back to front, where the R50/R53 was front to back.

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