what's a thumper head?

 

The cylinder head offered by Thumper Performance.

 

 

By all accounts, an awesome head on a MINI....being called "the other MINI head".

 

so what does this thumper head do? crank out like another 35hp?

 

typically 20-30ish hp, 10-20 ftlb of tq.

More or less like adding a 5th cylinder.

 

that's pretty good. then you're going to do NAAAZZ after that?

 

here's wat im working on right now... lol

 

What's all the rattling sounds in the video? I know that my MINI is very stiff and all the interior body panels creak on every bump as does my fire extinguisher..these sounds seems to get amplified on videos. Just curious what we are hearing in yours? Car sounds great! The "head" is the last great hurdle for me!! But I'm still having issues that more power won't solve...axel popping out, header flex joints, major rattling at idle, presumable the heatshield and the newly welded flex joint.....

 

Rattling was the camera / camera mount. I've watched that video so many times I don't even notice it any more.

 

Here's my RC antenna











Hopefully the snow was white enough tonight that you can see the antenna.



Where the cross hatch is unscrews, so that's the part I separate for pulling into the garage at night; I can open the boot with everything attached though. It'd definitely work on the Cabrio.

CB antenna is the one on the left here...


And because it is NMO I could screw it onto the roof here if I wasn't running a HAM radio (that's due to be replaced by a commercial grade GMRS rig so leading runs in the mountains this summer I'll still have an easy 5+ miles range talking to the bubble back FRS/GMRS radios)

 

That's *really* nice - mounts to the edge of the boot door - yes? So it flips up over the roof when you open the boot.

I wish I could use that style mount... but the boot on the cabrio opens the wrong way.

So I need to fab something up that either mounts to the body inside the side of the boot opening, or that mounts to the bumper and comes out between the bumper cover and the body panel.

I've thought about getting a better GMRS rig also... but have decided that Darwinism works better on the drives I lead if I use crappy radios.

 

Why wouldn't it work? You'd just need to be aware of what was behind you, or take the 2 seconds to unscrew the whip if you were to open it toward a wall or garage door.

Yeah I need to get a photo of the side of the car with the antenna on and boot open, it gives Pearl a real insect look.

Yeah I've got a portable GMRS that's putting out an actual 4watts and external antenna capable, but on our last run in the fall we turned so quick we lost a Pantera on the other side of the mountain by about 7 miles, which added a good chunk of time to the run finding everyone again, and then almost lost an S2000 down the hill to a spin where there was no guard rails; and since I've got the ability license and knowledge it only seems to make sense to be able put 40watts out of a decent gain antenna.

I need to find a good set of H7s, blew out both low beams last night, swapped the high beams in as a band aid, while I was doing so in a parking lot a Prius came over to see if I needed help:
"Do you need help?"
"No the bulbs blew out and I'm swapping them so I don't get a ticke tont he way home"
"Wow, good idea!"
The look on his face was priceless, clearly the thought wouldn't have crossed his mind, Melissa thinks he was looking for the chance to gloat about how good his hybrid was.

 

Hey Ken what software versions are your V1s?
(http://www.valentine1.com/Lab/MikesLabRpt3.asp)

 

Yeah - true. My 3d spacial imagination failed for a bit there - but I get it now.

Hmmmmm.

 

Mine is 3.858

 

I need to go check.

 

300 quid for a Classic Austin Mini in good mechanical and rust shape that just needs some paint work and maybe seats. "Even if you ship it (from the UK)" Wouldn't that be a fun little runner!

 

I hear you can trade a loaf of bread for a Mini over there. Maybe I heard it on Top Gear...

 

Better be moldy bread, or you got the short end of that deal.

 

Make it soggy too, it's not fair unless it stains.

 

I hear when you trade for one of those soggy moldy bread minis, they throw in 200 pounds of iron oxide at no additional charge.

 

Back to detailing... I gotta do some. Ran up to DC and back between snowstorms this week. Car is insanely nasty from hundreds of miles of salted roads.

I know... I'm a whiner. You guys who live in northern and mountain climes put up with that crap all winter. It would drive me nuts. Blimey's supposed to be clean.

 

Mark

 

so now you know why i hibernate my hobby cars...