Drivetrain 28,4 HP gain from a Milltek exhaust?
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I would recommend that you spend a little time doing High Performance Driver's Education (HPDE) with one of the car clubs (such as BMWCCA or PCA). The strength of the Mini is the ability to put more smiles in the curves. The track will demonstrate many great things about the Mini. My friend and driving instructor for many years, a retired professional race car driver, always told me not to worry about HP until I can drive safely as fast as he can with the same car on the same track. So far no way on my part but I am still learning and trying.
I would recommend that you spend a little time doing High Performance Driver's Education (HPDE) with one of the car clubs (such as BMWCCA or PCA). The strength of the Mini is the ability to put more smiles in the curves. The track will demonstrate many great things about the Mini. My friend and driving instructor for many years, a retired professional race car driver, always told me not to worry about HP until I can drive safely as fast as he can with the same car on the same track. So far no way on my part but I am still learning and trying.
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Sorry for all this off topicness, but I'm talking about just straight line power. I would have toasted that guy in the curves no prob. I took Phil Wicks' course once and plan to again this year. I was just referring to pure straight line power. While that isn't the MINIs specialty, it seems like a lot of these people have more power than me stock, but, it's probably only the few that have these factory freaks that are saying anything, which would skew the numbers.
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I think there was a bunch of posts about the need for an ECU tune to unlock HP and torque. Over the last year, the couple of posters that seem to have valid hands on opinions about this seem to be Jacemin, Derosi, fernflex (and many others) and of course the vendors.
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Sorry to bring it off topic on this.
I think there was a bunch of posts about the need for an ECU tune to unlock HP and torque. Over the last year, the couple of posters that seem to have valid hands on opinions about this seem to be Jacemin, Derosi, fernflex (and many others) and of course the vendors.
I think there was a bunch of posts about the need for an ECU tune to unlock HP and torque. Over the last year, the couple of posters that seem to have valid hands on opinions about this seem to be Jacemin, Derosi, fernflex (and many others) and of course the vendors.
Anyway, I think that is pretty much verified now like you said. A tune is needed. I would really like to know why that big dip in torque is there. I think a tune (and this may be out there, havent really checked in a while) that got rid of that and just kept the torque curve flat like BMW says it is, would be great. Check out Alta's dynos if you don't know what I'm talking about. Why does the boost go up, then down, then up again? why not just stay? I think those are important problems to address which would make the car noticeably quicker even without actually increasing power. It would make better use of what we have. But, I'm no tuner, I'm sure this has already been addressed.
Who knows?
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