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TRISTO · Apr 19th, 2008, 07:14 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by batou (original)

A word of advice if a tuner tries to hard sell you an aftermarket remap (ie. superchips, bluefin) to get to 220bhp, walkaway. Remaps are for power delivery and smoothness not to achieve your high powered goals. You only really need one if you get a bigger head.

A 15% pulley and colder plugs was fitted to a guys cooper s by 1320autos (think it was ewmarine or tristo) and his put 216bhp down on the rollers, i did the same (pulley and plugs) before I came across 1320 and it cost under £300!!! Awesome first upgrade.

After that it's best to let it breathe better and give it more fuel so an uprated intercooler (GRS approx. £400 or if your on a buget get a one off Cooper S GP if you can (I paid £200 for mine)) to help it cool down and breathe better. Then for more fuel bigger injectors (Works ones are 380cc and are what I use, standard are 330cc).

Your probably looking at £1500 tops for the lot fitted (you can do the intercooler yourself easily) and around 225-230ish bhp

and some extra pennies saved to get a nice sounding exhaust/intake system

Paul at 1320 autos is one of the only tuners that will post up the basics you need to make power and all the add on rubbish you don't need to buy. Because this gives us mini owners more of an insight into this other tuners aren't happy because it leads to them getting more questions and less money out of us. How many garages do you know whos tag line is "It's not how much you spend, it's how well your spend it".

The tuners are banned for a few weeks for arguing, 1320 get a lot of stick from other tuners because the give out more info about what we need to spend than some tuners would like.

If you want to spend a lot of money, get good service and decent power go GTT / Lohen, if you want to spend less money, get good service, make the same power (or maybe more) and learn a hell of lot about your car go 1320autos.

Good luck.

PS. It's also more about location but most sponsors on here will be happy to answer your questions even if your not getting things fitted by them.

100% 1320 autos, Paul and chris certainly know there stuff and will find the best way to improve the perfomance to your MCS, like batou and Damo said "Its not how much you spend, its how you spend it".
I Bought and fitted myself a GRS Intercooler, which are £395 new. Then i took it to 1320 autos where i had a 15% alta V2 Pulley and NGK Spark plugs with fitting came to around £320, when RR'd it took my car to 214 which was very pleasing only spending £700

Also had a leek down down test which test the compression in your cylinders, i would say this is a must before having any mods, if you are losing pressure you are losing BHP! It only costs around £30.

And if you want to spend out some extra cash i would recommend thejanspeed manifold which is i think £490 fitted which will defanlty bump it up to 220-225 mark.

Apr 19th, 2008, 07:14 PM	#18
TRISTO MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Hertfordshire Local Time: 11:59 AM Posts: 23 Offline	Which moding company Quote: Originally Posted by batou (original) A word of advice if a tuner tries to hard sell you an aftermarket remap (ie. superchips, bluefin) to get to 220bhp, walkaway. Remaps are for power delivery and smoothness not to achieve your high powered goals. You only really need one if you get a bigger head. A 15% pulley and colder plugs was fitted to a guys cooper s by 1320autos (think it was ewmarine or tristo) and his put 216bhp down on the rollers, i did the same (pulley and plugs) before I came across 1320 and it cost under £300!!! Awesome first upgrade. After that it's best to let it breathe better and give it more fuel so an uprated intercooler (GRS approx. £400 or if your on a buget get a one off Cooper S GP if you can (I paid £200 for mine)) to help it cool down and breathe better. Then for more fuel bigger injectors (Works ones are 380cc and are what I use, standard are 330cc). Your probably looking at £1500 tops for the lot fitted (you can do the intercooler yourself easily) and around 225-230ish bhp and some extra pennies saved to get a nice sounding exhaust/intake system Paul at 1320 autos is one of the only tuners that will post up the basics you need to make power and all the add on rubbish you don't need to buy. Because this gives us mini owners more of an insight into this other tuners aren't happy because it leads to them getting more questions and less money out of us. How many garages do you know whos tag line is "It's not how much you spend, it's how well your spend it". The tuners are banned for a few weeks for arguing, 1320 get a lot of stick from other tuners because the give out more info about what we need to spend than some tuners would like. If you want to spend a lot of money, get good service and decent power go GTT / Lohen, if you want to spend less money, get good service, make the same power (or maybe more) and learn a hell of lot about your car go 1320autos. Good luck. PS. It's also more about location but most sponsors on here will be happy to answer your questions even if your not getting things fitted by them. 100% 1320 autos, Paul and chris certainly know there stuff and will find the best way to improve the perfomance to your MCS, like batou and Damo said "Its not how much you spend, its how you spend it". I Bought and fitted myself a GRS Intercooler, which are £395 new. Then i took it to 1320 autos where i had a 15% alta V2 Pulley and NGK Spark plugs with fitting came to around £320, when RR'd it took my car to 214 which was very pleasing only spending £700 Also had a leek down down test which test the compression in your cylinders, i would say this is a must before having any mods, if you are losing pressure you are losing BHP! It only costs around £30. And if you want to spend out some extra cash i would recommend thejanspeed manifold which is i think £490 fitted which will defanlty bump it up to 220-225 mark.