Get the tune!!!! You won’t regret it! Mario just tuned my R60 on Tuesday and it is fantastic! The improvement is unbelievable and still great drivability around town... and when you get on it... sigh..... I want to get in the now just thinking about it! Lol. I have a catless DP, and had a shop replace the exhaust from the flex pipe to the muffler with a straight pipe. So catless with the factory muffler. It actually had a pretty nice deep tone at the low end. When you get on it, it’s a little raspy and loud, but not in a bad way, and not “Ricey”. And the pops and burbles? They became very pronounced after the exhaust work.... after the tune? Absolutely insane! It sounds like I’m a moving shooting range! Lol.... I love it! Ha ha! I have been cackling and giggling like a schoolgirl for the last 2 days! And I’m not even a little bit ashamed by that!
But seriously, it sounds like you are well in your way. All you need is a DP and you can go at least stage 2. Don’t even bother with stage 1, because if you have it, you will wish and dream of what stage 2 is like, I know I would. I was originally only thinking about something subtle like stage 1.... but because of my turbo upgrade, Mario said I needed to go stage 3, and boy am I glad I did! It is easily the best mod for the $ you can do, period. Get the 2nd cat deleted and then save up if you need to and get your downpipe and tune from Mario at the same time. It’s worth it (as an aside, I went cheap and got a CNT Racing DP, its nice and does what it’s supposed to, but if I had the extra money, knowing what I know now, I would have saved up and gotten one of Mario’s DP’s instead. When he tuned mine, he did a couple others too, and I helped a guy do his DP he got from Mario. Aside from it looking terrific, the quality and fit was superior to any I’ve seen so far) The car feels so much more alive..... and my neighbors may just drive me out if I keep buzzing my street with the sport button and it’s associated pops active, like I have been, lol. In normal driving mode (sport button off, sport + [auto] disengaged, is very mellow, but has power and acceleration that has always been missing in the heavy Countryman. I basically makes it feel more nimble and eager, if that makes sense. It’s really nice.

I can’t post video, but you can PM me if you want to hear how the exhaust sounds, it’s fully exhaust on the cheap. But for the $ I’m happy with it. You could probably get a different tone and mellow it just a bit if you put something like a Magnaflow straight through muffler/resonator where the 2nd cat/resonator is.

The automatics are very strong and 40% of my customers are autos and have never had a faliure and a few the automatics are used for abusive auto crossing.

Unfortunately he doesn’t have a website. I wish he did too. But if I was you I would email him. He will be able to answer your questions. I have an auto and just got a stage 3 RPM Power tune from Mario and by the way it behaves so far, I’m not really concerned about it. I’m sure I could probably shred it if I tried, but once the newness wears off and I stop driving like a hoonigan everywhere I go, it won’t really be putting much more wear or stress on the system that it was already getting before. One of these days I’m going to have to come back down to earth and drive like the adult I’m supposed to be..... but I’m just having too much fun at the moment, ha ha.
But really, ask him, he will be able to give you good info and advice about what you may want, tune-wise, and what you will need and what you may not NEED but probably should do before a tune to make it better. If that makes sense. His customer service is top notch! And I know I probably sound like a paid shill, I am nothing more than a very satisfied customer! I will get whatever I can from Mario over any other vendor just because of how he has treated me as a customer. It’s funny, because by the time you are done (especially if you spend any time with him in person) he feels almost more like a friend than someone you are doing a business transaction with, it’s very refreshing and can make some fiercely loyal customers, just look at the review threads about him....that speaks for itself and is the reason I chose him to tune my baby.
good luck and let us know what you end up doing to your Mini

Stage 3 on a F56??

You won’t regret it. I’m still singing his praises, lol. I love the tune. Got a chance to do some REALLY spirited driving on a run with my club, and it was downright euphoric! My buddy told me it’s the rowdiest Mini he’s has ever seen, and a guy in my club told me it sounds “musical”, lol. But don’t get me wrong, it’s not so aggressive that daily driving is an issue. With an automatic transmission and the All4, it loses some power to the drivetrain, supposedly, lol. The power delivery is smooth and under partial throttle acceleration, it just a good strong pull to get to speed and pass easily. Push it down and I hear the turbo spool up see my boost gauge rise and the car just takes off like a bat outta hell! It’s so much better than the factory map in every way! If you could drive one that has his tune, you would not even think twice about it, really. Very happy customer

not yet, it’s possible but things have been too busy lately.

BTW where do you live? I will be in New Jersey September 8th 2018. Not sure if you lived somewhat close to there

put the ECU in an Uber

Wait your coming here? Where in jersey will you be? Omg pm your number!!!!

depending on your turbo, fuel and the use of methanol, power for stage 3 range from 250whp 275whp

stock S is 165whp

mQubed Motorsport Manic & RPM Power Tuning

Depends on your mods, but my R60 with stage 3 RPM on a 40mm turbo made a huge difference! Never dyno’d it and probably never will, but just the feel of it, it is a significant boost in performance. It’s like somebody stuck a whole different engine in it! I never want to back to what it was like before Mario got his hands on it! You will not regret it for sure.

Looks like you are ready for stage 2, stage 3 would need a larger than stock turbo. Please send me an email and we can discuss questionss you may have.
MarioPalza@gmail.com

Mario

mQubed Motorsport Manic & RPM Power Tuning