Hi,

Has anyone here fitted a remote oil filter or a pre-oiler to a Mini?

I'm interested in what equipment one would use with the Mini. What I would like to do is break-in my Mini to factory specs, then change the oil and fit a pre-oiler and remote oil filter kit. This way the engine breaks in as it was engineered and also allows any potential problems to prop-up while my warranty is more or less intact.

A remote filtration kit:
http://www.bestsyntheticoil.com/amsoil/by-pass.shtml

A pre-oiler:
http://www.accusump.com/acc_products/acc_units.html

Obviously, there is some concern over the room under the hood. But also doesn't the Mini use some sort of cap over the oil filter? Any idea how well a remote filtration kit would mount?

Well, thanks for any info.

 

I've considered it. As a first step I thought it would be good to see if it was needed, so I installed an oil temp gauge to see if I needed an oil cooler and an oil pressure gauge to see if the pressure drops off at the track during hard cornering. Anotehr advantage of the pre-oiler is that it gives instant pressure on start-up, more critical with a turbocharged car than a supercharged car.I was at the track today - saw NO drop off of oil pressures during cornering, max oil temp I saw was 230 degrees F on a 65 degree day.
So I'm leaning to thinking that an additional oil cooler and an accusump may not be needed. Plus, as you bring up, where would you put it?

 

>>Hi,
>>
>>Has anyone here fitted a remote oil filter or a pre-oiler to a Mini?
>>
>>I'm interested in what equipment one would use with the Mini. What I would like to do is break-in my Mini to factory specs, then change the oil and fit a pre-oiler and remote oil filter kit. This way the engine breaks in as it was engineered and also allows any potential problems to prop-up while my warranty is more or less intact.
>>
>>A remote filtration kit:
>>http://www.bestsyntheticoil.com/amsoil/by-pass.shtml
>>
>>A pre-oiler:
>>http://www.accusump.com/acc_products/acc_units.html
>>
>>Obviously, there is some concern over the room under the hood. But also doesn't the Mini use some sort of cap over the oil filter? Any idea how well a remote filtration kit would mount?
>>
>>Well, thanks for any info.



If you have a cooper, This kit might work as an adapter...

http://www.mossmini.com/Shop/ViewPro...mp;SortOrder=1

 

Thanks, that's what I was looking for as a oil cooler/remote filtration kit.

 

check these out:
http://www.cmfilters.com/remote.cfm#