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Street Tyres
Pump Gas

 

I'm impressed. What mods have you done? R56 or R53?

 

Thanks

It's an Cooper S R53

Mods list
http://www.minitorque.com/forum/vbga...p?do=view&id=3

 

Congrats bud but the two identical 108.4 mph impressed me more, now just think what it would be like if you got a decent / header / cat back / tune........

0-100 in 11.5 rocks

 

Thats awesome! Was this run done without the interior in?

 

Thanks

The 1320 "Limited interior" was used

 

awesome!

 

Some figures from the V-Box thanks to Bigshow

0-60: 5.0
0-100: 11.3
30-70: 3.8

 

12's

I didn't beleave it when I come to line up again. Ben had that look on his face and bear hugged me! He said you run 106! Second run 107... Then for the rest of the day 108's!

 

Cant believe I got to go 109 now, that is some very tall order.

As for the 12's you've got no chance not when you'll be weighing in heavier now with all those tubes going in.

 

Jove, that's a great time, especially on such crappy tires (which can't have liked the cold temps much). As I learn more about Minis, I'm finding out they aren't quite as light as I thought they were. How much does a stripped out Mini weigh in at?

SC

 

My Mini with no sunroof, no back seats, light wheels, 4 gallons of gas, and with me in the car weighs 2650 lbs. The panels and etc do not weigh that much to be taken out in my opinion.

 

Yes, but the question is does it have the AC, heater and other normal items removed. That can add up to a lot.

EDIT: This was in reference to Jove's car.

 

Damn, that's a lot heavier than I would have expected - unless you weigh in at 240 lbs like me

 

I am at 142lbs. I still have the AC, heater and everything else.

 

Just curious, how do you launch your car? I can't seem to figure out what works best. Thanks.

 

Jove's with him in it weighs 2488lb

 

Now that's a fair bit lighter, but I guess getting one down to sub 2200 lbs isn't so easy. I suppose all those modern impact standards put a lot of steel underneath that little shell.

 

A quick burn out to try and get some heat into the tyres. You can only really do this if you have a clutch and diff.

I roll up to staging and hit the first light. Hold the Hand brake and lift the clutch a little bit until it start pulling the car forward. Raise the revs to about 2 - 2.5K and lower the hand brake a-little until the second light comes on and pull it up again so now I'm staged.

This might not be the best way to stage but it works for me

I only learnt this the other day from Paul. Choose one of the 3 yellow lights and just stare at it. As soon you see it come on drop hand brake and left clutch and give some gas. By the time you start moving the green light will be on and you should have a good reaction time. I still need to work on this.

 

Yeah I'd love to get to 2000lbs but that ant going to happen with out some major surgery.

The problem with the MINI is that some of the panels have double / triple skins for crash protection. You could start drilling holes but then you might loose out on handling on the roundy tracks.

 

Hubies weighs 2200lbs with him in it and thats with carbon doors hood and tailgate no wiring loom etc. etc.

 

Shows how much the shell weighs