I have this plate on my engine. Does anyone have any info if what they were, what they did, and where they have gone? Did they tune or did they just provide parts? I'm just trying to get an idea of what may have been done to my car prior to my ownership.

 

Randy Webb - had a shop for aftermarket work on MINIs and Lotus also, and an
internet store and site complete with a MINI and a Lotus forum, and a vendor on here, and
I believe went to MINI runs and gatherings to do pulley installs, etc. but packed it up
several years ago in favor of his regular job, which I believe is as a pilot.
He originally sold this fancy looking adjustable rear sway bar, which someone else is now
selling, but also was involved in many other facets of MINI tuning.
Someone correct me if I'm remembering anything wrong.

 

Randy Webb was what I'd call a 'plankowner' in the MINI tuning world. I tried to pull up real old posts about him but search is only going back to 2007 ... but even in 2007 there were threads about "hiring" Randy to come to an area where he'd install mods for folks. Most often these were called 'pulley parties' because the supercharger pulley change was the game changer starting not long after 2002's hit the street. This grew to crank pulleys, exhausts (he had his own for a while according to threads here) suspensions bits. I attended one in the Norfolk area in 2004 or so and folks came from DC and Baltimore to get bit put on their cars. If you use 'advanced search' and look for Randy Webb - I found 488 posts - you can glean information from those....

 

Thanks I will look around then. I was just curious more than anything. My car didn't have a pulley when I first bought it. It does now though

 

wow

very surprising if it had been "Webb'd" that it didn't have a pulley.

maybe he sold the badges by them self . . .

 

It did have quite a few other goodies but there is no telling if they were from him or not. If he sold hotchkis stuff that would explain my rear sway and my springs.

 

Yes, he sold the badges by themselves. He installed a pulley, plugs and wires on my old R53 and I believe it was #421 that he installed. I bought the badge on line and installed it on the valve cover over the MINI badge. He is a airline pilot overseas today.

 

cristo
This is the Tarrett rear sway bar designed and built by him. Randy was the first to offer it to the MINI public and had some distributor agreement with Tarrett. It is extreemly high quality and IMHO the best rear bar offered. It has an infinately adjustable range and comes with adjustable endlinks.
It is still available direct thru Tarrett Mfg.
Steve

 

I had the pleasure to meet him at one of his "pulley parties" in Lewiston, NY. He installed a 15% pulley on my car. Great guy; very friendly and approachable, and extremely giving of his time to the MINI community. I'd concur that he's one of the founding fathers of MINI tuning, despite the fact that he got out of the game a few years back. He was also very good at building and racing MINI racing cars, too. Near the end of his MINI life, I would guess that he was simply being pulled in too many directions, traveling across the country to put on these pulley parties to help us MINIacs squeeze more power out of our cars. All the while, trying to run an aftermarket parts business (Webb Motorsports), a racing program, and get his commercial pilot career going. Something had to give. He chose the pilot's life. I'm glad to have had the chance to have him wrench on my car, and wish him well.

 

Randy is alive and well, living with his family in Dubai, flying for Emirates Airlines. He recently completed a resto on an original MINI. Look him up on FB.

 

Sounds like a great guy and I am honored to have his badge on my car.

 

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I think I might've found one of his creations. From what I can apparently see physically and feel/hear...the obvious ones are exhaust (Miltek sp?), intake (Alta), BBK, suspension (HR/Eibach it appears), safe to assume pulley, not sure about headers/clutch.

My question is...what exactly did Webb sell? Were they packaged as kits? or sold individually like Dinan parts? Any labeling on the parts whatsoever?

Thanks in advance for the responses guys!

 

He sold lots of different items. Sold individually, I believe. The pulley had WMS on it, but I don't know if anything else was labeled.

 

He sold and installed Alta pulleys early on. That is what he installed on my R53.

 

Thanks!! I found him on FB and sent him a pm. There were a few mini pics on there and a slight mention of Webb Motorsports so I figured that was him. Sounds like a great guy.

So, in terms of the car I found...it's an 05 with 77k miles on it with what the dealer said Webb worked on but could not give further details...asking price is ~$12k. Perhaps take it to a Mini dealer for a PPI.

Here's a crappy cellphone pic I snapped...

 

I agree with the comments posted about Randy,he performed several mods on my 2005 S. He is onegthe Mini community was a great loss.He loved flying and missed it,besides he has a family to take care of,so it was win win. Q

 

I'm appreciative for Randy's services, parts, and advice. Ditto for the young men that used to work for him.

 

Ditto for me, here's another post in appreciation for Randy Webb and what he did for the MINI community. I attended a pulley party in St. Louis way back in 2003/2004 timeframe, got the 15% pulley, Alta CAI and NOLOGY wires. Somewhere I've got a whole ton of pictures of that gathering -- I think he did somewhere around 15 cars that day.