It's actually a great way to hurt your brand to stop supporting your base of fans who ARE moving on to new and better things.

Alta are only after the quick and easy sell. Sad.

 

Well to be fair, it isn't Alta that's not supporting the new N18 engines but rather Cobb Tuning that made changes to the hardware, and thus not being compatible with the new N18 engine. I'm all for hating the "Man" but the anger at Alta might be slightly misplaced here.

 

You guys might be surprised to find out that Cobb AP is dropping MINI altogether. There's an announcement in the AP thread in the Modifications forum.

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Is anyone picking up the slack?

 

So what if we have an issue - will someone support this?

 

I believe the tuners with Cobb's Protuning software still does. I doubt it's free though :/

 

Cobb is dropping MINI, by others (NM) are stepping up for us N18ers!

Brownisland, spend some time doing some actual research. Before I ordered my MCS I had studied enough (without asking anyone to spoon feed me) to know what I wanted to upgrade. It is WAY more satisfying to figure things out yourself. Heck, who knows??? May be a generational thing though. To give you a little help... The aforementioned NM Engineering DOES offer to tune the... your N18 engine. Way of Way Motor Works may, I'm not sure. You WILL crater your warranty if you have this done. Good luck.

 

Thanks Melangell... you're right I should be figuring things out on my own.
I just needed a little help since this is my first brand new car and my first MINI!

 

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to come across so heavy my friend. Congrats on the first new car. You picked a good one. Glad to see you ordered from the factory. I did the same. Spend some time just trolling MINI parts and pieces dealers and this site. Google searches are better than NAM's search feature though. Your JCW will come with the N18 engine. No Accessport. If and/or when you decide on a tune it won't be so easy to replace it with a factory tune. Until then (the time you decide to void most of your warranty, there are mods to do. First and best performance mod... Sway bar. I would recommend Way Motor Works website, http://www.waymotorworks.com

He carries a huge line of MINI stuff, does great work in his shop, is pretty much the southeast (at least) MINI expert, and on good days will happily answer questions on the phone.

Good luck and if you get stumped, send me a private message.

 

Do you like you access port? did it really work or is it a wast of money? did you have any problems?

thanks

 

I think the AP is great, I had to shop around to find a good price, but it's def worth it. I originally only planned on buying it for a stage 1 tune, but I've now ordered a DP and exhaust to get me to stage 2. Once it's installed i'll let everyone know how it works with the AP.

 

I installed the RaceChip Ultimate, in my 2013 JCW Convertible. Huge increase from 4000 rpms up. The 18" tires actually start to spin when I punch it.

 

Let me know how the DP works - I am scared of warranty issues - I can always change the tune - but if they see a DP they now you have worked on it

 

Which DP are you going with and what diameter is it if you don't mind me asking?

 

I bought the AR Design 3" DP. Still haven't installed anything because the weather's been too cold.

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I bought the AR design 3" DP. haven't installed anything yet

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The catless one?

 

Yeah, I originally ordered the catted, but changed my mind and called them to switch the order to catless.

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Big thumbs up! I'm in the process of doing the same except I'm having mine fabbed up by my nephew and his exhaust guru boss. Looking forward to seeing any changes in 3" and "2.5" catless DP's.

I was looking at that AR catless last night online and it looks very well built.

 

I'll def let everyone know how it turns out

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Does anyone have any idea what kind of target boost levels can be expected running an Accessport stage 2 or 3 map with a 3" catless Turbo back exhaust?

Since Alta quit selling the AP they've taken down all the old dyno charts and I can't find any info related to anything above stage 1.