here's a video of my buddy Ted driving the car at auto-x (his first time ever driving it, he bested my time....how's that for a sobering experience??). On street tires for this vid (RT615's). For the next event, I had 225/45/16 A048's on...SO MUCH more grip.

YouTube - CDC Frederick 7/6 MINI Cooper S

 

Nice work!!!!!! Very cool little ride.

240 hp supercharged.. I saw the straight through pipe and since newer models are turbo'ed I instantly (and mistakenly) assumed it was NA.

I bet it went like a scalded cat when you got on it!!!!

 

Was it an Auto?

 

Yes....it was ton of fun. About 270hp at the crank. It was docile down low....plenty of torque on tap (200tq at the wheels by 3500 or so RPM). After that, hold on....it would rev straight up to the 7200rpm cut. We could run it to 8k but that's only needed for the track where sustained revs help avoid a shift.

My buddy has a 450whp STI....he drove it and was amazed on how linear the powerband was and how hard it pulled from 4k to redline.

bite your tongue!!!

 

I just got rid of mine about a month ago as well.

I see you have an RMW sticker on the a-pillar. I was hanging out with Jan a couple weeks ago at MINICORSA, he is good people.

 

Yeah...all my stuff was from him. I had some issues with tuning he was never able to sort out. It doesn't help that he's on the left coast and I'm not...a good reason why having a local tuner is better than not.

 

Cool Mini and impressive power!