Drivetrain 05 pepper white MCS modification project
#1201
back on topic
Back on topic on the recent exposition on dogbox for R5X Minis. As I infer one can convert the Getrag 6 speed that lacks the bloody proper straight cut gears musik (like the Midland 5 speed) with some aftermarket conversion kit. I suspected Quaife has something for it. Strangely surveying thru their gearbox kits there is nothing under Mini or BMW. So I check to see if they have something for Found On the Road Dead, and they have Focus and Focus 2.
I wonder if one of these is for converting the Getrag R5x box. A quick email to them will answer the itching question only if I am convinced 3415 diminishing Britcoins is a worthy investment. The Brit vendors had always been a pleasant bunch to intercourse and were generally receptive from my limited experience.
I wonder if one of these is for converting the Getrag R5x box. A quick email to them will answer the itching question only if I am convinced 3415 diminishing Britcoins is a worthy investment. The Brit vendors had always been a pleasant bunch to intercourse and were generally receptive from my limited experience.
Last edited by pnwR53S; 02-15-2019 at 06:41 AM.
#1202
No R53 for me at this time. I have been driving the wife's R53 as of late but still on the fence if i want to sell the R50 and get a 2019 Miata RF GT-S. It would cost about the same to make the R50 as powerful as the R53 with a lot of work and parts from RMW. The Miata ND2 has 181hp and 154 ft/lb and 7500 red line due to all the "old fashion" hot rod tricks they put into the motor. They opened up the intake and throttle body, Opened the intake and exhaust valves, changed the cam, lighter piston heads, lightened con rods, lightened and re-balanced the crank and then put a lighter dual mass flywheel. The motor just screams. The RF tips the scales at just under 2500 pounds. So slightly more hp than the wife's R53 and about 100 pounds lighter with a near 50/50 weight distribution. All that makes for a very compelling argument to get one. The biggest problem is that I am cheap and the wife and I love to take long vacations. So parting with the $30K+ for a fully loaded FR GT-S is the biggest hurdle for me. It did take me 2 years to decide to buy my R50 at $19750 in 2004. We will see what the future holds.
The wife and I have hit 6 of 7 continents. Antarctica is next. Just got back from Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Shameless high-jacking and plug for my photos:
Now back to your regularly scheduled programing.
The wife and I have hit 6 of 7 continents. Antarctica is next. Just got back from Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Shameless high-jacking and plug for my photos:
Now back to your regularly scheduled programing.
#1203
Back on topic on the recent exposition on dogbox for R5X Minis. As I infer one can convert the Getrag 6 speed that lacks the bloody proper straight cut gears musik (like the Midland 5 speed) with some aftermarket conversion kit. I suspected Quaife has something for it. Strangely surveying thru their gearbox kits there is nothing under Mini or BMW. So I check to see if they have something for Found On the Road Dead, and they have Focus and Focus 2.
I wonder if one of these is for converting the Getrag R5x box. A quick email to them will answer the itching question only if I am convinced 3415 diminishing Britcoins is a worthy investment. The Brit vendors had always been a pleasant bunch to intercourse and were generally receptive from my limited experience.
I wonder if one of these is for converting the Getrag R5x box. A quick email to them will answer the itching question only if I am convinced 3415 diminishing Britcoins is a worthy investment. The Brit vendors had always been a pleasant bunch to intercourse and were generally receptive from my limited experience.
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They used to have a MINI-specific gearkit available but I think it's no longer in production?
It weren't proper straight cut gears though,
bloody semi-helical...
Found that in the 2011 catalogue,
pdf:
https://s.race.fi/data/quaife/quaife2011.pdf
#1204
GP Garage in Italy offers this kit for 1,870 Eurocoins:
http://www.gpgarage.it/store/3763/Co...ica-corta.html
They have some interesting stuff on offer.
I also kinda like the shift display located in the speedo on this older video...
#1205
No R53 for me at this time. I have been driving the wife's R53 as of late but still on the fence if i want to sell the R50 and get a 2019 Miata RF GT-S. It would cost about the same to make the R50 as powerful as the R53 with a lot of work and parts from RMW. The Miata ND2 has 181hp and 154 ft/lb and 7500 red line due to all the "old fashion" hot rod tricks they put into the motor. They opened up the intake and throttle body, Opened the intake and exhaust valves, changed the cam, lighter piston heads, lightened con rods, lightened and re-balanced the crank and then put a lighter dual mass flywheel. The motor just screams. The RF tips the scales at just under 2500 pounds. So slightly more hp than the wife's R53 and about 100 pounds lighter with a near 50/50 weight distribution. All that makes for a very compelling argument to get one. The biggest problem is that I am cheap and the wife and I love to take long vacations. So parting with the $30K+ for a fully loaded FR GT-S is the biggest hurdle for me. It did take me 2 years to decide to buy my R50 at $19750 in 2004. We will see what the future holds.
The wife and I have hit 6 of 7 continents. Antarctica is next. Just got back from Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Shameless high-jacking and plug for my photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thinke...57677542291948
Now back to your regularly scheduled programing.
The wife and I have hit 6 of 7 continents. Antarctica is next. Just got back from Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Shameless high-jacking and plug for my photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thinke...57677542291948
Now back to your regularly scheduled programing.
The Miata ND2 seems to be a great choice. Getting FR make sense in Oregon. Your R50 is well used and gotten the money worth so just do it.
#1206
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cASk55ONzkE
GP Garage in Italy offers this kit for 1,870 Eurocoins:
http://www.gpgarage.it/store/3763/Co...ica-corta.html
They have some interesting stuff on offer.
I also kinda like the shift display located in the speedo on this older video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUVDpTT6XEo
GP Garage in Italy offers this kit for 1,870 Eurocoins:
http://www.gpgarage.it/store/3763/Co...ica-corta.html
They have some interesting stuff on offer.
I also kinda like the shift display located in the speedo on this older video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUVDpTT6XEo
#1207
:
They used to have a MINI-specific gearkit available but I think it's no longer in production?
It weren't proper straight cut gears though,
bloody semi-helical...
Found that in the 2011 catalogue,
pdf:
https://s.race.fi/data/quaife/quaife2011.pdf
They used to have a MINI-specific gearkit available but I think it's no longer in production?
It weren't proper straight cut gears though,
bloody semi-helical...
Found that in the 2011 catalogue,
pdf:
https://s.race.fi/data/quaife/quaife2011.pdf
#1208
After watching the Rotrex Mini video had me searching to find out more. Before long I found this big build tread on MT, which sadly ended with the OP parting out the car, wrote an honest postmortem and shortly the thread got locked.
The thing that stand out for me is these video looks amazing but you never know the blood and tears behind getting that much power out of the tiny engine.
The thing that stand out for me is these video looks amazing but you never know the blood and tears behind getting that much power out of the tiny engine.
Last edited by pnwR53S; 02-15-2019 at 07:41 PM.
#1209
After watching the Rotrex Mini video had me searching to find out more. Before long I found this big build tread on MT, which sadly ended with the OP parting out the car, wrote an honest postmortem and shortly the thread got locked.
The thing that stand out for me is these video looks amazing but you never know the blood and tears behind getting that much power out of the tiny engine.
The thing that stand out for me is these video looks amazing but you never know the blood and tears behind getting that much power out of the tiny engine.
That is a big build thread no doubt.
It is epic as hell and highly intensive.
Thanks for the link as it is interesting.
Blood, sweat, tears, and bucketloads of cash.
The emotional highs and lows must be like a rollercoaster.
#1211
OVERDRIVE
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After I found a YT video from M7 posted in 2008 about a "sequential" paddle shift conversion, I came across this wind tunnel @ UNCC video M7 post recently. It is too good not to share here of the streamline-not aero-dysfunctional Mini hog, especially why there is always the dirty butt that requires constant hogwash .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PizalOrkBwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PizalOrkBwo
#1212
It would be interesting to see a wind tunnel test of a R56. Its rear spoiler is larger and a different shape and the rear corner panel glass is different. In particular, that glass ends before it starts to curve to the back as it does on a Gen I MINI and, on the R56, the panels that MINI put in to make that curve have built-in vertical spoilers. I think both of these are areo aids that actually work. I have very little in the way of a dirty butt on my R56, but the R50 is always dirty.
image credit Wikipedia
The wing spoiler is larger also. My hog needs a butt hogwash constantly but fortunately being white does not show as bad.
Last edited by pnwR53S; 02-16-2019 at 09:24 AM.
#1213
Last edited by pnwR53S; 02-16-2019 at 11:35 AM.
#1214
OVERDRIVE
iTrader: (1)
My Dad had a sailboat that, as a kid, we sailed a lot in the Thousand Island area of the St. Lawrence River. He would periodically joke that it was a hole in the water that you threw money into. A track car or car build is the same thing. A lot of car restoration projects go the same way. Most people who actually complete one of these projects are people who pay someone who is in the business of doing this sort of thing to do the job for them...
As for making a 3 - 400 hp MINI out of the parts that are there, well, one might be better off going this route:
That one is actually located near me and I got to see it in person...
As for making a 3 - 400 hp MINI out of the parts that are there, well, one might be better off going this route:
That one is actually located near me and I got to see it in person...
#1215
DANG!
Love the sound of that HemiCooper!
That's a big lump, but it would seem that it'd throw the handling off...
...another route is the twin engine:
Pretty neat but I'm sure it took lots of fiddling to get sorted.
Also neat because it plays into the whole heritage aspect because there were some Twini Coopers back in the day.
A good article here:
https://www.classicandsportscar.com/...tested-in-full
It nearly killed John Cooper when he crashed one.
While looking up the old Twini I came across the Lane Motor Museum who has a replica on display,
it looks pretty wild with the double shifters:
https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/coll...i-replica-1965
I didn't realize how close I was to that museum,
I gotta go visit!
Love the sound of that HemiCooper!
That's a big lump, but it would seem that it'd throw the handling off...
...another route is the twin engine:
Pretty neat but I'm sure it took lots of fiddling to get sorted.
Also neat because it plays into the whole heritage aspect because there were some Twini Coopers back in the day.
A good article here:
https://www.classicandsportscar.com/...tested-in-full
It nearly killed John Cooper when he crashed one.
While looking up the old Twini I came across the Lane Motor Museum who has a replica on display,
it looks pretty wild with the double shifters:
https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/coll...i-replica-1965
I didn't realize how close I was to that museum,
I gotta go visit!
#1216
My Dad had a sailboat that, as a kid, we sailed a lot in the Thousand Island area of the St. Lawrence River. He would periodically joke that it was a hole in the water that you threw money into. A track car or car build is the same thing. A lot of car restoration projects go the same way. Most people who actually complete one of these projects are people who pay someone who is in the business of doing this sort of thing to do the job for them...
As for making a 3 - 400 hp MINI out of the parts that are there, well, one might be better off going this route:
https://youtu.be/my_J7lmd_-4
That one is actually located near me and I got to see it in person...
As for making a 3 - 400 hp MINI out of the parts that are there, well, one might be better off going this route:
https://youtu.be/my_J7lmd_-4
That one is actually located near me and I got to see it in person...
#1217
Often doing engine swap makes economic sense, especially when you can fabricate a sheet metal bracket in a few seconds that takes pro metalsmith all day. Help too if you can weld like a Dickens, and only need to pause for a cup of tea and biscuits.
They should end the series by showing the difference of their hair before and after.
They should end the series by showing the difference of their hair before and after.
#1218
DANG!
Love the sound of that HemiCooper!
That's a big lump, but it would seem that it'd throw the handling off...
...another route is the twin engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YL7pURth3o
Pretty neat but I'm sure it took lots of fiddling to get sorted.
Love the sound of that HemiCooper!
That's a big lump, but it would seem that it'd throw the handling off...
...another route is the twin engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YL7pURth3o
Pretty neat but I'm sure it took lots of fiddling to get sorted.
#1221
#1222
I have no clue, although I've always like the name Edwin Drood, I can't quite conjure any good guesses...
...so,
to continue with swap stories, I rather like the trend of motorcycle engines used in small cars.
Here's a mad mental Mini with motorbike implant:
The onboard ride footage is quite intense.
...so,
to continue with swap stories, I rather like the trend of motorcycle engines used in small cars.
Here's a mad mental Mini with motorbike implant:
The onboard ride footage is quite intense.
#1223
I have no clue, although I've always like the name Edwin Drood, I can't quite conjure any good guesses...
...so,
to continue with swap stories, I rather like the trend of motorcycle engines used in small cars.
Here's a mad mental Mini with motorbike implant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06PmqQt5oqI
The onboard ride footage is quite intense.
...so,
to continue with swap stories, I rather like the trend of motorcycle engines used in small cars.
Here's a mad mental Mini with motorbike implant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06PmqQt5oqI
The onboard ride footage is quite intense.
Here is a wicked Hayabusa purpose build track car from a local legend. Palatov. He custom built the ultra-lite trailer too that all are so light that can be towed by a crossover SUV - S as in Small.