Last winter at the SCCA Motorsports Expo in Charlotte, I was speaking with a Wilwood brake engineer about my struggle managing temperature gain with MINI Gen 1 JCW brakes. I told him I use the car mostly for track instruction and the instructor runs are generally 25-30 minutes in duration, though some weekends I might …
The clutch on the AC compressor died the other weekend at the track and since the AC was anemic at best, we decided just to delete it, saving almost 25 lbs of weight, mostly ahead of the front axle. Fortunately, MINI makes a deflection pulley (11287570810) for just such a purpose — so you can …
One of the weakest links in the MINI suspension design is the front strut mounting point. The strut towers take a beating and the sheet metal can easily deform, especially with stock strut mounts. You get a little better protection with adjustable camber plates and their thick, flat mounting plate design. But to really make …
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