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Post by loui on Jul 26, 2017 17:58:47 GMT
So the story starts with the car being purchased in April 2005, when only 6 months old from a chap who's family had got to big for the car. The car when I picked it up had the dealer fitted John Cooper Works engine upgrade, which took the standard car from 170bhp to 210bhp along with the reclining sparco dealer fit seats and the aerodynamic bodykit.  The MINI by chrislewis001, on Flickr At this time the plan was to drive it, not modify it and move on to something faster. That plan lasted about 2 days when KW lowering springs were fitted and a set of Breyton Magic wheels I had in the garage got fitted.  The MINI by chrislewis001, on Flickr From there engine mods happened, better brakes got fitted (the standard ones are pretty lame), along with better suspension. Over the 12 years this has got gradually more and more out of hand to its current state |
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Post by loui on Jul 26, 2017 18:14:30 GMT
A big turning point with the car was 2009 after a visit to the ring. Always being car mad and having grown out of the whole clubbing going out scene I wanted my stag do to be a memorable one so a road trip with a group of mates was planned. At this point the car had already changed majorly and was really a fast road / show car.  The MINI by chrislewis001, on Flickr At the point we headed to the ring the car was circa 270bhp with a bigger intercooler, smaller pulley, fancy exhaust, big valve head, high lift cam, bigger injectors, coilovers, big brakes etc. It lapped the ring well, in honesty it had loads left as having seen a friend loose pretty much everything from hitting the armaco there I took it fairly steady. Once back I decided it needed better seats and harnesses and started to fall in to the track car trap, it was also featured in one of the last editions of Redline before it was wound up.  Redline by chrislewis001, on Flickr |
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Post by loui on Jul 26, 2017 18:50:34 GMT
So early 2010 the car build got very out of hand, the coilovers had recently been upgraded from KW V2 to KW Clubsport, and I bought another MINI which I had been watching on eBay. Although the car I bought looked tamer than mine it had a 2,000 mile old bottom end with forged pistons in and a turbo conversion. It was the first one built at 1320mini by them, Hubbie of ABF performance And Jay from Bytronic. Hubble had come over to help with how to build it and Jay to help tune it. Now there were some bits I didn't like on the conversion which were to be changed on the build onto my car. The bottom end was mated to my big valve head and conversion was started. I didn't like the top mount intercooler and found another chap in the mini scene selling a big front mount which was built by GRS Motorsport for a Gtt conversion which got replaced by a spec r setup as the chap seemed to like blowing money and MA Developments decided it was what he should do. This was plumbed into my car with new 550cc injectors and the car was run on wastegate pressure (15psi) making 310bhp  Turbo conversion by chrislewis001, on Flickr |
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Post by loui on Jul 26, 2017 19:07:42 GMT
The car drove fine on gate pressure but every so often boost cut, this we thought was down to the car only running one t map sensor and it not being able to cope. After a year the car went back to 1320 for there standalone ECU separate boost sensors in the way of a cossie 3 bar jobbie with the mini one just to do temp readings, this allowed two boost settings to be run.  Dyno by chrislewis001, on Flickr At this time the higher boost setting was on the steering wheel as a push to pass, now it's also on a switch so can be on high permenantly. Currently I would say it produces a bit less than that Dyno graph. The car was also the cover car for modern mini magazine around this time  Modern mini cover by chrislewis001, on Flickr |
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Post by loui on Jul 26, 2017 20:53:15 GMT
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Post by loui on Jul 26, 2017 20:55:47 GMT
Renewed the chain tensioner, turbo gaskets as the turbo tried to unbolt itself at Anglesey in may, wrapped the flange and we found cracks, added a turbo blanket and an oil cooler and stat. Car is currently away at my friends being finished  Bonnet vents by chrislewis001, on Flickr  Bonnet vents by chrislewis001, on Flickr |
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Post by noj on Jul 27, 2017 5:24:20 GMT
Lovely looking car, have heard when set up correct they make an excellent track car!
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Post by loui on Jul 27, 2017 5:50:42 GMT
Lovely looking car, have heard when set up correct they make an excellent track car! It's certainly very capable! It surprises a fair few too! |
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Post by loui on Jul 29, 2017 21:58:54 GMT
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Post by loui on Aug 1, 2017 21:40:18 GMT
Got Flickr working now, so heres some more pics Modern Mini mag and redline photos  Professional Car Photography, Pictures at: www.mwoodsphotography by chrislewis001, on Flickr  Professional Car Photography, Pictures at: www.mwoodsphotography.co.uk by chrislewis001, on Flickr  Professional Car Photography, Pictures at: www.mwoodsphotography.co.uk by chrislewis001, on Flickr  Professional Car Photography, Pictures at: www.mwoodsphotography.co.uk by chrislewis001, on Flickr  Chris_Mini_Turbo_Matt_Woods_Car_Photography (81) by chrislewis001, on Flickr  Chris_Mini_Turbo_Matt_Woods_Car_Photography (88) by chrislewis001, on Flickr  Chris_Mini_Turbo_Matt_Woods_Car_Photography (54) by chrislewis001, on Flickr  IMG_0007 by chrislewis001, on Flickr |
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Post by loui on Aug 1, 2017 21:42:59 GMT
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Post by loui on Aug 1, 2017 22:10:22 GMT
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Post by Jay TrackAddict on Aug 2, 2017 9:54:39 GMT
Looks brilliant, its a credit to you.
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Post by eurorob on Aug 2, 2017 12:00:31 GMT
Love a good mini, I remember the feature in redline,
Such a clean looking build
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Post by loui on Aug 2, 2017 15:07:15 GMT
Love a good mini, I remember the feature in redline, Such a clean looking build It's moved on quite a bit since the Redline feature. It was still supercharged back then. Cheers chap I always liked it being fairly subtle, the bonnet vents destroyed that though. I've been to collect it from my mates unit ready for Monday at Mallory |
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