Please don't, I don't want to go political PS. sorry Paul for going off topic

 

WE HAVE A WINNER!

 

You can thank all the tree huggers and global warming nut cases for this!

 

The visual inspection stuff and nothing but factory parts stuff has all the fingerprints of the automotive lobby. I'm a tree-hugging, global warming "nut case" and I think it's BS too.

Matt

 

You cant be to extreme with the tree hugging, after all you modded your car!

im talking more of the prius owners doing 55 in the left lane types

 

but it's a little spoken of benefit of greater efficiencies: you get more power. I'm all for responsible modding, but I also maintian one can do it and still have clean exhaust. I'm also very data driven. If it's clean, who the eff cares how it's done, it's clean and that's what's inportant. If it's dirty, it's dirty, and you can run dirty with "factory" parts as well. The results are what counts.

Matt

ps, cool car. Yours was the one at AMVIV with the carbon fiber hood and "ripped" paint?

 

agreed! I dont see why the government is so strict on the vehicles aompared to factorys. I know its more because of the $donations the political parties receive. after all, its easier to go for us one by one, penny by penny. rather then go after the real polutants out there
I heard that there is only about 10% of vehicles on the road that do any mods other then the CAI,and cat back stuff. So our numbers dont really make any type of impact on the inviroment at all.

Thanks for the compliment on the carbon hood. I just got the carbon hatch, that will be done by the end of next month

 

no cam, no fun

 

If so, who won the cam?

BTW, I passed smog a couple weeks ago too. Funny thing was, one of the reference books listed my Mini as having an air pump! At least another reference book didn't list it, so it wasn't a problem that there wasn't one there....

Matt

 

I don't see Jan's name on this sheet...
http://www.redlinetrackevents.com/do...lts/Street.swf
...so i'm guessing nobody.

There are a couple MINIs at the bottom of the FWD section from MINIcorsa, but no time listed. I guess the stopwatch didn't go up that high.
At least one of the MINIs is posted before a non-SRT Neon.

 

How does that work ? did Susan get round the track further than Danny? its not like there in alphabetical order who didn't qualify.....

Or did they break them Fri / Sat ?

At least I qualified.......http://eurosportscompact.co.uk/report_2009r1.php
but then I only have to make 1/4 mile to get a ticket.

I suppose the bright side is that you can only improve at the next round, I was really looking forward to seeing a time as well.

Looks like Jan would of clean up with a sub 2.00.00 as well

 

EXCELLENT video //MZero

Looks like if you stayed for the weekend and eneterd teh Redline Time Attack you would of come a respectable 8th, shows how well the Mini's with a good driver can place.

Congrats

 

Thanks, I'm pretty pleased considering my mods. It still has room left too, I'm just not a perfect driver.


Thanks Paul,

Yea, the Mini is a great car, and unbelievable platform. I imagine that with a perfect lap 2.09.0 could be had out of my current setup...but not much faster. I definitely could use more power, and grip is always needed, but with more grip I feel I'll start to find the limits of the suspension. Uggh...more money to spend


Remember everybody...this is my DAILY DRIVER

 

So are the MINICorsa cars RMW cars?

 

Danny's got the full RMW stuff on his car and Jan re-tuned it last week after they decided to drop it down to a 15% pulley for this long track.

Reading between the lines from Jan's comments in the "whats in the box thread" that Danny's current Laminova WTA system has trouble going past 3 laps and maybe thats why Danny's last dyno plot was done in 3rd gear.

 

I hope that there will a be show down among the tuners one day
1. Mini-Madness
2. RMW
3. Mini-Mania
4. MegaMiniMynes
5. Alta
6. 1320
7. GTT
8. Lohen
9. Webb
Who else?

 

Yeah that would be good as long as someone else was paying for the shipping, shipping 4 cars to Baton Rouge GA from the UK was bad enough and I wasn't paying for them.

10 off the best World Shootout

 

Kal is sitting next to me Paul... hes wondering when that Cam is getting shipped and why your PM box is full...

 

With those results are you sure you WANT one of those cams? Lots of talk up to the event but not much after . Anyone know what happened ?? Looks like Bob Sheer's 2.00 and change time is safe for another year

Randy
M7 Tuning

 

just brilliant Randy.... why don't you tell us some more about your exhaust header experience.... I'm dying for another good laugh

What would make you think his time is safe?

 

That would be taking the thread off topic as well as throw your boy under the bus bringing that back up again . Believe me everyone else got the point quite clearly . I think hearing your spin on how this all came about would be more pertinent. Was it " bad gas " again ?



Randy

 

Randy..... your exhaust knowledge is laughable.....

you can make all of your comments after I run my car....... care to bring yours out too?

 

So what happened to Danny's and Susan's Jan ?

 

I thought that was going to happen last weekend? So in order to award the cam to the proper person what happened this past weekend? Again lets try to keep this on topic .

As for exhaust knowledge I was the R in a small company called RAM performance products back in the early 80's . We built drag boat headers and OT headers for ski boats . My partner Mike Jenkins was the M thereby RAM was Randy and Mike He was the engineer but as the primary sales person a lot of the info still sticks with me . Not a lot, as the 80's were a pretty wild time . Our primary competition was Bassett . As we were late to the game we had to have an edge . Ours was that we were 100% t 304 stainless and used a 3/8 flange instead of their 1/4 inch . Our biggest plus was our pulse timing which enabled the average flat bottom race boat to pull another 500 to 700 RPM. Based on that I can say without question this is 100 % WRONG

Originally Posted by M3NTAL
I hope the similarities comment is just sarcasm, because the cylinder/collector order is different too.
Makes no difference as they both dump into the same 4/1 collector.

Longboard
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Although I haven't talked to her about Sunday, Susan is an exceptional driver who consistently outperforms much higher powered cars and has only a tune, stock pulley, Cross coils, and R-comps. She drives because it is fun to do and has nothing to do with any of this BS except that she is friends with Danny and he works on her car. If she were to take a fully loaded MINI out there, I'm sure there would be something to talk about.