Drivetrain The TEAMMIGHTYMINIZ Intake Shootout presented by motoring|underground
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Larry,
Your extension of medication evaluation to evaluation of products for the Mini is interesting, and applies to many other products/services as well. However, in item #1 I'd suggest that one be careful to define the term "significant advantage". For medications that should be obvious, but for Mini products that may not be as clear. As implied previously, advantage may have different meanings depending on the user. IMO, this just adds a bit of complexity to the analogy. Thanks...
Your extension of medication evaluation to evaluation of products for the Mini is interesting, and applies to many other products/services as well. However, in item #1 I'd suggest that one be careful to define the term "significant advantage". For medications that should be obvious, but for Mini products that may not be as clear. As implied previously, advantage may have different meanings depending on the user. IMO, this just adds a bit of complexity to the analogy. Thanks...
Originally Posted by Eric_Rowland
Thanks for posting the results! Interesting that stock is above all others at 5250, and only slightly exceeded as it nears and passes 6K.
I will be tuning my MCS for maximum average mid-range torque, from either 2.5k to 5.5k or 3-5k, next week, on a Mustang 1750 DE dyno. I recently got the JCW kit and have a SuperTrapp exhaust a UniChip and three intakes to test. The car has London Stainless headers (dimensionally the same as Miltek) and a 2.5", almost no bend, cat back.
The test stated they reset the DME by disconnecting the battery for 5-10 min. before each run. A MINI tech told me I could just unplug the power module (first green plugin) and do the same thing. Does anyone see that one should be better than the other? They were looking for relative numbers, in the test, as I will at first, should I follow this same procedure even though in the end I will be looking for the ultimate avg. mid-ramge torque gain?
The UniChip is on the car now, so I plan to tune the ST to that with the JCW intake first. I will then test the other intakes I have available, GTT and Mini Madness and tune the ST to each. I will then pull the Unichip (not impressed so far) and test the best intake with just the JCW software. Unless the UniChip is better than my butt dyno says it is I will be looking into the GIAC or custom headers with a custom tune on the UniChip.
I see that some cars are dyno's in 3rd and some 4th, what would be best for me? I have an 03, with it's longer gears than the 05+ but will be on light weight wheels with small diameter tires, apx. 23".
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I would be very interested in your dyno results. 
Also, any of the intakes you don't want to keep.
Also, any of the intakes you don't want to keep.
Originally Posted by gowest
I found this to be very interesting as well! By this test, it looks to me like a MCS with stock intake should out pull the others on a 3-5.5k rpm run.
I will be tuning my MCS for maximum average mid-range torque, from either 2.5k to 5.5k or 3-5k, next week, on a Mustang 1750 DE dyno. I recently got the JCW kit and have a SuperTrapp exhaust a UniChip and three intakes to test. The car has London Stainless headers (dimensionally the same as Miltek) and a 2.5", almost no bend, cat back.
The test stated they reset the DME by disconnecting the battery for 5-10 min. before each run. A MINI tech told me I could just unplug the power module (first green plugin) and do the same thing. Does anyone see that one should be better than the other? They were looking for relative numbers, in the test, as I will at first, should I follow this same procedure even though in the end I will be looking for the ultimate avg. mid-ramge torque gain?
The UniChip is on the car now, so I plan to tune the ST to that with the JCW intake first. I will then test the other intakes I have available, GTT and Mini Madness and tune the ST to each. I will then pull the Unichip (not impressed so far) and test the best intake with just the JCW software. Unless the UniChip is better than my butt dyno says it is I will be looking into the GIAC or custom headers with a custom tune on the UniChip.
I see that some cars are dyno's in 3rd and some 4th, what would be best for me? I have an 03, with it's longer gears than the 05+ but will be on light weight wheels with small diameter tires, apx. 23".
I will be tuning my MCS for maximum average mid-range torque, from either 2.5k to 5.5k or 3-5k, next week, on a Mustang 1750 DE dyno. I recently got the JCW kit and have a SuperTrapp exhaust a UniChip and three intakes to test. The car has London Stainless headers (dimensionally the same as Miltek) and a 2.5", almost no bend, cat back.
The test stated they reset the DME by disconnecting the battery for 5-10 min. before each run. A MINI tech told me I could just unplug the power module (first green plugin) and do the same thing. Does anyone see that one should be better than the other? They were looking for relative numbers, in the test, as I will at first, should I follow this same procedure even though in the end I will be looking for the ultimate avg. mid-ramge torque gain?
The UniChip is on the car now, so I plan to tune the ST to that with the JCW intake first. I will then test the other intakes I have available, GTT and Mini Madness and tune the ST to each. I will then pull the Unichip (not impressed so far) and test the best intake with just the JCW software. Unless the UniChip is better than my butt dyno says it is I will be looking into the GIAC or custom headers with a custom tune on the UniChip.
I see that some cars are dyno's in 3rd and some 4th, what would be best for me? I have an 03, with it's longer gears than the 05+ but will be on light weight wheels with small diameter tires, apx. 23".
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