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[M44K TS]

Jeez, the Mini Wiliams must be frightening, i had an 850 T5 that was 225bhp standard, and circa 260bhp with the boost tweaked and that was rapid.

Bearing in mine the Volvo's gross weight was 1950kg!

An extra 40bhp roughly, and about 1000kg lighter is obscene....

i love it!

[ivanhoew]

FASTEST a series 5 port

1/4 mile nic rizzardini ..12.95s turbo
top speed ,sat nav 142mph benross ..1380cc turbo
most powerfull.. matt woods .. over 240 bhp.. 1293 turbo n2o


fastest a series alternative head

1/4 mile tom fenton ,12.79s KAD head n2o turbo

thats all i can gather so far !

Edited by ivanhoew, 26 December 2007 - 03:36 PM.

[antnee]

what engine is in this then?

[matty...]

Its a Ford Zetec engine of some description. Turbo'd of course and NO2.

[Jimster]

I'll be keen to see how mine gets on this year, I've done some mods, aim to break 300 banana's (238 at the moment without gas) have got gas fitted, but not used it on the rollers. I have done a few mods since the last rolling road session.

Having problems with double grey clutch slipping when I was at combe this year.

I tried running that calculator, but my weight is only 550kgs, and it doesn't work under 600kg's

Power at Flywheel (BHP) : 238
Weight without Driver (KG) : 600
Power to Weight Ratio (BHP Per Ton) : 403.03
0 - 60 (Secs) : 4.28
0 - 100 (Secs) : 10.24
60 - 100 (Secs) : 5.96
Quarter Mile (Secs) : 12.64
Terminal Speed (MPH) : 111.10
Drag Strip Quarter Mile (Secs) : 12.44
Drag Strip Terminal Speed (MPH) : 113.21

[Mini Jill]

If you are talking about a mini with out a mini engine how about this one

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Twin Engined Fury Two turbocharged engines. One Mini. 1,100 horsepower. We'll take two, please. by Justin Kaehler showUSloc=(checkLocale('uk')||checkLocale('au'));document.writeln(showUSloc ? 'US, ' : '');US, September 12, 2006 - Thanks to the popularity of TV shows like Pimp My Ride and Overhaulin', people think that it only takes 30 minutes to turn any old rusty hooptie into a Huggy Bear-approved ride. The smarter viewers out there know that these shows are all done with a bit of TV magic -- they think that it only takes seven days to turn a bucket of rust into a SEMA show car.

Well, both types of viewers are wrong -- sort of. While you'd be hard-pressed to find a shop that can change your oil in 30 minutes -- let alone trick your car out with five TVs in that amount of time, some of the TV shows really do transform a car in the span of a week. Of course, these TV shows have dozens of workers and hundreds of pre-fabricated parts ready-to-go before a wrench is even turned on a car... So TV really does make things look a little too easy.




That's a damn shame too, because we're sure that everyone that lays eyes on this MINI truck will think that a huge team of specialists turned out this wild ride in a couple of weekends. Well, they'd be wrong. The custom MINI Cooper-based "truck" you see here is the work of one man. Yes, just one man -- Paul Ireson -- built this car all by himself over the course of a year. Well, okay... his son Nick helped him with a couple of the carbon fiber pieces, and he did have a guy help a bit with assembling the engines -- but the majority of this car is pure Paul.

We're sure that you are all ready to jump on us for a typo -- that extra "s" on "engine". Well, we hate to disappoint you -- that "s" was added on purpose, for the MINI you see here comes powered by two Honda B16A2 engines. One engine sits up front and drives the front wheels while the other sits in the rear and appropriately drives the wheels in the back. Put together, it is estimated that these two Honda engines produce a combined 1,100 horsepower. Not bad for a MINI.

So how did Paul get these 1.6-liter 160-horsepower engines to produce over 500 horsepower a piece? Well, to let the engine breathe a bit easier, Paul performed an extensive bit of headwork that included polishing the head and adding angled valves and lightened valve springs. Paul also upped the engines' displacement to 2.0-liters, re-sleeved and decked the block, balanced the rotating mass and crammed in some low compression pistons.

Why put low-compression pistons in a high-revving VTEC engine? Why, so the engines can handle extreme amounts of boost, of course. Paul used his custom fabricating skills to create the plumbing that let him mount a T3/T4 hybrid turbo and oversized intercooler on to each Honda block. All of this extra air needs extra fuel, so Paul ditched the stock injectors in favor of some 1,000 cc units. Oh, and just in case Paul needs a little extra kick, a shot of nitrous is just a button push away.

Running two turbocharged high-compression engines requires a lot of oil and fuel. Luckily for Paul, he can just call up his sponsors at Shell and get some of the company's finest V-Power oil and fuels. We're wondering if the (assumedly) free Shell goods make up for the cost of the extra engine...


We guess that most old-school MINI owners like the car's stock rubber cone suspension, so Paul had to fabricate the F1-style cantilever suspension and air shocks found on this MINI truck. However, once these suspension pieces were in place, Paul could take a break and use off-the-shelf parts for the brakes and wheels. Oversized PowerSlot rotors now sit behind an even bigger set of MOMO wheels.

The interior of this MINI truck is even crazier. Everything was ripped out and tossed out so that this MINI's cockpit could truly resemble the interior of a fighter jet. There is only one seat in this MINI, and it is made out of fiberglass and is molded into the body -- which means there is no adjusting this thing for a better driving position. The stock speedometer was also tossed in favor of a new command center based around a couple of Pioneer monitors and few dozen Maximum Performance gauges (ok... 22 gauges to be exact...). Just like the seat, these are all housed in a custom fiberglass enclosure and are molded to the car.

But there's more to the car than just a custom fiberglass seat and dash, the "passenger" side door has been welded shut and the "driver's" side door was cut, re-welded and transformed into a gull-wing door. A 15-inch monitor sits on the "roof" side of this door, which makes it a bit heavy. Luckily for the weak-of-upper-body-strength, this door can be automatically opened with just a push of a button.

Speaking on unconventional doors, notice the lack of side mirrors on this MINI. Paul wanted the car to look a bit more streamlined, so he replaced the standard 60's-era glass with some 21st-Century cameras. Remember those Pioneer screens we mentioned a couple of paragraphs earlier? They also double as monitors for these cameras, allowing Paul to see whatever he wants when he wants. Nice.


As cool as two turbocharged VTEC engines and fighter-jet cockpits are, the most eye-catching thing about this MINI truck is the exterior. As with the rest of the car, it was all done by Paul and Paul alone, meaning that he designed and fabricated the whole aero kit. Not only did Paul make the kit, he's also responsible for adding the multi-hued Sherwin Williams Planet Color paint to the car. This MINI has more individual colors on it than Baskin Robbins has ice cream flavors, and we must stress again, Paul applied each one of those colors to the car all by himself.

Oh yeah, we must also give ourselves props right now... We immediately picked up on the fact that this MINI truck is using aftermarket Scion xA taillights. According to Paul, we were the third or fourth person to accurately place the taillights on our own. Way to go, us! While we're on the subject of vehicle lights, the headlights on this MINI are mostly stock. They can change color to match the paint, but other than that, they are the same lights that came on the car.

In fact, the headlights are the only stock part left on the car. The original body pieces were ditched, the original interior was tossed, the O.E. engine is nowhere to be found... the list goes on and on. So much stuff was done to this MINI, we still find new and cool things each time we see it. This MINI truck is truly an original ride from the ground up -- and it was all built by one person. Sure it may have taken Paul a year to build the thing, but he certainly didn't need an army of workers and a TV crew to build a unique, show-stopping one-of-a-kind ride.

Edited by Mini Jill, 25 December 2007 - 05:55 PM.

[Sam Walters]

a standars 850 is faster reason being is its never going to be tested, its a show car so its going to be kept wrapped in cotton wool.....and trailered everywhere.

[*DJH*]

Plus it's ugly aswell

[Mini Jill]

Plus it's ugly aswell

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

PS do you have a girlfreand yet

[*DJH*]

Plus it's ugly aswell

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Christ, he must have cataracts then

PS do you have a girlfriend yet

? not for a couple of months no

[Mini Jill]

PS do you have a girlfriend yet
? not for a couple of months no

Just looked at your profile. I cant see why.

[*DJH*]

PS do you have a girlfriend yet
? not for a couple of months no

Just looked at your profile. I cant see why.

Oh my thank you very much

[Mini Jill]

PS do you have a girlfriend yet
? not for a couple of months no

Just looked at your profile. I cant see why.

Oh my thank you very much

Back to you

[*DJH*]

cheers!

[1 mini]

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