My wife Kelli's MINI:





M45, RMW Tune, Head, CAM, Race Header and Exhaust, 17% Pulley, GP Intercooler, Brisk Silver Racing Plugs, Stock Coil, wires, and bottom end.

Worlds most powerful MINI on a stock blower and bottom end is now owned by a Girrrl

 

 

Congrats.......I feel so yesterday with my measly 260.

P.S. Don't get too comfortable with that crown.

 

Good stuff! I wouldn't think the OE bottom end would take and handle that kind of abuse, too!

 

I herd about this from the guy with the tunes umm whats his name
This is great... Not a bad lookin car either.

 

It's got show and go

 

so is she gonna beat up on ya now at SOW?

 

She already does. I can't beat the handling of the MINI with my Jetta, and now I can't beat her whp.

 

the story of how this all came about is more imteresting

 

Jan has a long love/hate relationship with this car

 

So this just means its time to upgrade the jetta.
lol Jan, typo!

 

The Jetta is pretty upgraded. I am going water/meth with it next, but I will spray it with a 100 octane program and it should put it right where she is with horsepower. I still have more torque than her, but I can't beat her handling

 

Then speak up Donkey .

Correct me if I am wrong but Danny has the M45 record .

Longboard

 

Yes he does, but she has a stock bottom end:

 

danny didn't have stock pistons


And yes this car was some serious work to get it where it is today
I will do a write up after I get home from the wine tasting with the wife

 

IIRC, this car had parts from other vendors, right? And these parts have been replaced with OEM and RMW stuff.

I hope its a red wine tasting....

 

Congrats! Looks like some nice numbers, and the car is definitely nice looking as well.

 

this car was extremely frustrating
this car had 175 across the board for compression and the leak down was good yet it was a poor performer
it had multiple problems that took quite some time to work through
the car had idling issues, throttle body codes, misfires you name it
we had this car on the dyno 4-5 times and the results were not as good as other cars with the same mods
No fear, Wes and Kellie were on board to make it right, the best part as they were open to doing what it takes to get it right. Kelli tracks her car and is looking to achieve her goals and I wanted to get this car right so she could set her goals even higher for next season.
Danny from MiniCorsa and I set out to change out the wiring /sensors until the electrical issues went away. It finally stopped throwing codes so we scheduled another tune day. You could tell the first time it ran up that things were different. It set a new personal best on the dyno. by the looks of the 245whp graph it had much more in it as I knew where the timing was before on the last tune. The car just wasn't happy and now with all of the electrical issues gone..... it wanted to run. So we added in some timing and fuel and there goes 255whp........ hmmmm.... a few more tweaks later and 263whp and then we ran it even hotter and it laid down 267whp.... It was a great experience getting this car to heights once thought unattainable. Thanks again to Kelli, Wes and Danny for hanging in there when things weren't going the right way. It just shows what perserverance can do

congrats and see you at the track!!!

 

Congrats on the impressive numbers! How easy are the burnouts now? LOL

I'm jealous of the GP intercooler, MINIUSA won't let any more of those out in the wild anymore

What ended up being the corrective action to get the engine happy? Was is one of the sensors that was being flakey?

 

wiring harness and map sensors for sure

 

A year ago we had an Alta v.2 intercooler which I really liked, but I replaced it because of CARB concerns. We also have a K&N CARB certified intake (only for 02-04) to pass the under the hood test. I forgot to say that my wife got pulled over on her test drive after the tune. He walked around the car three times looking for something to write her up for. The JCW tips looked OEM enough that he didn't care, and if he had popped the hood, he would have found an OEM intercooler and CARB certified intake. Lucky for us he just gave her a fix it ticket for the front plate.

We got really lucky on the GP intercooler. A guy (who is on this board) came to our local GTG and asked if anybody wanted to buy it. I was there and I jumped on it. The difference between the previous tune of 238 whp was a new wiring harness, 2 new MAP sensors, a new throttle body intake tube, GP intercooler, and the Brisk plugs. The harness and sensors are what made the difference, because as Jan said, it was a totally different car when he tuned it this time.

 

Jan,
Hopefully mine will yield similar numbers. I keep my fingers crossed.I'm getting impatient
Frenchy.

 

Look who took second today at Dubfest in the Euro Crossover category:



Not just go, but she can show

 

Congrats Wes & Kelli!

 

wasn't this motor torn down and rebuilt?