I live in Los Angeles, I think both Mynes and RMW are close. Is there a general preference between them? How dangerous is a tune? I can't find any info on RMW other than it's called Revolution Mini Works, run by someone named Jan, and has a website, but the website doesn't work. Those that have used either, what is your experience? Any posts or PMs would be appreciated.

 

Probably not too many will try to answer you as RMW is not a vendor on this site and it's frowned apon to speak about them. At one point I thought that Mynes was getting away from tuning MINIs and had moved on to other cars. Actually I think they'd still tune them they just weren't pushing/advertising tuning MINIs anymore which may be a sign.... Do some internet searching..

 

Some people think RMW is the best when it comes to the generation 1, R53 MINI.

 

RMW of course......

 

Can't say anything good or bad bout mines. Haven't used them.

I had Jan /RMW tune my R56 JCW last year.. Fantastic experience. Highly recommend in my opinion.

He is in CA, but also travels for tune parties.

 

It may be frowned upon to speak of RMW here but I will go ahead and say it. Jan from RMW knows his stuff and has some great go fast parts for the MINIS. I had mine tuned by him and couldn't be happier. That is unless I had some more go fast bits from him

 

I've had my car tuned by both and in my case Jan did a better job.

 

+1for RMW. Jan tests all his parts and won't sell you stuff that you don't need or can't use.

He's also got an impressive record tuning competition MINIs and Porsches.

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Another endorsement for Jan/RMW here. Don't let his website throw you off -- Jan offers great parts and services for MINIs. He's The Man for mods beyond the standard pulley/CAI/exhaust. If you're in the market for headers, cams, or a head (and of course a tune), RMW is it.

 

Jan of RMW tuned my car for my bolt on parts and for the Meth kit. Only good things to say and he always makes the most power that you can safely run. He has more experience on MINIs than anyone I know and if you want to go past the normal parts he can build you whatever level of MINI power you care to spend from Mild to Wild Jan is the Man!

 

I have RMW parts and tuning. Nothing but good things to say about it all.

 

RMW is awesome! I'm located in Los Angeles, if you want to check out his work lets meet up.

 

Why would the forum prevent someone from discussing a tuner just because they aren't a vendor?


How could the forum ever be considered an independent source of information, help, and advice which in general is why they exist?


It is indeed, tiring, reading stuff from certain tuners, going either way, or their staff sometimes, or groupies, slating each others practices, products, reliability etc. I for one, want to hear both sides of any story. I certainly do not want to be a forum member if I have to support or favour, or live in awe of, the companies that sponsor it. That's just bollocks frankly.


There are key recognised people messing with, and providing services for, these cars. In general, and I've no experience of them yet because of it, I can't find much about RMW that doesn't turn into something else on forums. It just muddies the waters. Some of these people need to get professional so we can choose based on accurate advice and valid opinion.


It reads like a rant doesn't it haha, glad to see so many are positive about this company. Ok, it was a bit......carry on :-)

 

IMO RMW does great work...on gen1 cars anyway IMO.
Mynes blew up lots of motors...but all tuners have success and failures....
Any tune is a risk... Ironic thing is mynes just sells a different product, and simply posts under a different vendor name... Can you guess who?!

 

And as to "is it safe"...
Comes down to what you want...tell the tuner, RMW/Jan will adjust the agressivness of the tune...
A safe road tune, or an aggressive "race tune" for max HP for bragging rites.....
As Jan says, look at my trophy's. He tunes cars for a living, and has had many successes on the touring car circurt, and when I met him, he was seemed like an honest, ex marine. He tunes for $$, so don't expect to get hours of chit-chat and hand holding...time is $$ and he NEEDS to move on. Many of the unhappy folks would IMO NEVER BE HAPPY...
Some cars at a tuning event see HUGE gains, some moderate, some none...depends on the health of the motor.

 

Jan is the man! I wouldn't let anyone else tune my MINI's. Honest, helpful and worth the money spent.

 

To try and answer your original questions, either of these tuners are extremely competent and a tune from either of them will be Completely Safe.
If you simply Google either RMW or Mynes Performance, you can find their website and/or forums, you can get their contact info from there.
The biggest difference between the two will be in the way they accomplish getting your car tuned, meaning whether it be in person, remotely with a Dyno or remotely on the street, they both have different options available.

As far as preferences, most of the time that's a behemoth sized can of worms and really doesn't need to be opened, everyone has their individual preferences and their individual reasons for those preferences, but either tuner will provide you with a quality tune.

 

Seems like Mynes is out of business. They don't monitor or answer questions on their forum anymore.

 

They come and go...
Selling self tuning kits....
Even their customers complain that they seem to disappear for a bit....

 

Is RMW still in business? They seemed to be banned from this forum, but I don't know why?

 

They are both still in business, I think RMW is still doing tune parties, but only at specific locations like Helix.

But they BOTH do custom remote tunes, Mynes just also has the self tuning options.

The Mynes guys can be a little hard to get a hold of at first, but that is only when they are out of the country, once you get a tune started, it's all handled by e-mail and they will be available until it is finished.