i just recently read an article in sport compact car where they had a burnout contest, for distance. Cars included were SRT-4, mercedes 320, nissan 350z, Acura tsx, honda accord, and many others.....of all these cars guess who came in first by 20 feet??? the MINI(john cooper works edition)

 

Cool! I'll look for that article.

 

Which issue, I'll see if it's online yet.

 

idk, didnt look at month, the latest one

 

I know that I can easily get into second gear with continuingly spinning my tires... I Knew that the mini would win it.. :smile:

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Dan
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BIG smokies = get a JCW MCS. Good to know if I'm in the market for a new toy.

 

JCW MCS = the winner with a 129ft burnout! Funny contest & probably the reason the JCW MCS doesn't have a much faster 0-60 time than the standard MCS (it can't get enough traction).
I've done many a burnout in mine before the pulley and even more after, but those days will be few now that I've roasted off the DunSlop runflats and put on Goodyear F1s. Gotta treat them somewhat nice.

 

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It wouldn't suprise me that the Mini won. I have done a lot of burnouts on different cars and for a four cylinder front wheel drive car, the Mini can go quite far. I have burned all the way through first gear and partly through second gear, on a stock mini.

 

Just realized something....

Isn't the MINI the only one of the group without LSD? (meaning, the others were putting their power to the ground more efficiently)

 

>>:evil: (and by the end of the burnout, it turns out that I was at that point "speeding", so I got nailed for that too!!)

 

^^^^^ your not supposed to do a burnout in front of a cop

 

129 ft???...were the tires on the rims when they did this test?

 

How to win a distance related burnout contest in a MINI:

1) Select 3rd gear

2) Put on hand brake

3) Rev to 5000 rpm

4) Dump the clutch

5) rev as required to keep engine from bogging

6) Ease handbrake to instigate forward motion

7) Steer anywhere you like to avoid things

Stop when the tires blow !!

 

btw: let it be known.....i can smoke the tires on anything

 

This thread just reminded me college times with my old 93 V8 mustang...

That thing could burn tires amazingly, the car wouldn´t move until you eased it out of the spinning.

I wouldn´t do that now, my michelins were too expensive (and now I pay for them)

 

>>btw: let it be known.....i can smoke the tires on anything
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Can smoke 'em on this front wheel drive vehicle?

 

I miss my Big Wheel

 

dang, didn't know you can burn out starting in 3rd.

thought it would just bog and die.

 

>>Just realized something....
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>>Isn't the MINI the only one of the group without LSD? (meaning, the others were putting their power to the ground more efficiently)

I don't think the Honda, Acura and several others in the article have LSD. If anything, since they were in a straight line, the MCS, with its equal length drive shafts, was probably putting its power down the most efficiently of all the front drive cars.

I got pulled over once by a motorcycle cop (who I didn't see until it was too late) for spinning the tires off a stop light. He was threating to give me a ticket for "failure to maintain control of the vehicle." He ended up letting me go though. I think he mostly wanted to pull me over just to talk about the car, which we did for about 10 minutes. One of those very rare cool cops.

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>>>>btw: let it be known.....i can smoke the tires on anything
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>>Can smoke 'em on this front wheel drive vehicle?

 

AHHhhh, The smell of burning plastic!