ALD0
Apr 15th, 2005, 04:56 PM
Well it is always interesting to read any Power tunes done on the MINI Diesel I thought I would give quick write up on mine.
Yesterday I drove down to Hampshire and visited West Tuning (from previously booking it in) at first I was unsure to what sort of set up there was going to be-the address sounds very Tasty “Unit 2 Thruxton Race circuit” and the Website is very nicely set out but anyone can or pay to have a Excellent Website set up. On arriving my doubts were not confirmed right thankfully. West tuning is set out next to the Racetrack with a number of other different units.
On arrival Ray came out and greeted myself, he explained what he does and how many cars he tunes there.
Next my car was put on a rolling road, from there it was tested to see what the Standard Bhp was. Bearing in mind every car is different-at time my car had 2450 odd miles on the clock and is running with 17inch Bullet wheels/Runflats-The result came back as 72bhp. Ray then explained in more detailed about what he was going to do and showed me various programmes on his Laptop, each car has it’s own specific programme-It all looked very complicating but he explained what it was and does to the car.
From there I was dropped off into town courtesy of West Tuning where I did bit of shopping-4 hours later was picked up and taken back to the garage to see what had been done.
Ray explained that he managed to tweak the car to 105bhp, but advised that the engine is still very tight and probably in another 10k will be much more improved. I took it for a test drive along the straight road leading onto the Units and straight away could notice the difference!!
The car pulls a lot better from 2k revs straight through up until just over 4k this is nice as when changing up a gear you will be in that powerband again and again!
It is also especially more noticeable whilst driving on dual carriage/motorways-it has a lot more omph to comfortably overtake now and find you can quite happily leave it in 6th as will pull just right. I found that I was looking at the Speedo and was doing 90 without even realising it.
Economy I think has been effected a little-I will confirm this after next re fill it’s not that much as I still did 167 miles on Quarter of a Tank. I have also noticed aswell that if you floor the pedal it does create a little bit of smoke, Ray said this was due to the Live by Wire accelerator but flooring the pedal does not make that much difference and the key is to accelerate smoothly and swiftly and use the Torque efficiently. Once getting back home onto familiar roads it is here I really noticed the difference as I could compare Speeds, Gears and Revs on my local roads-Within the limits of course :p
For anyone wanting to improve the MINI Diesel and give the car what it deserves for power rise and Cheaper running costs without going to a Cooper I would recommend most certainly :D
http://www.west-tuning.com/
Yesterday I drove down to Hampshire and visited West Tuning (from previously booking it in) at first I was unsure to what sort of set up there was going to be-the address sounds very Tasty “Unit 2 Thruxton Race circuit” and the Website is very nicely set out but anyone can or pay to have a Excellent Website set up. On arriving my doubts were not confirmed right thankfully. West tuning is set out next to the Racetrack with a number of other different units.
On arrival Ray came out and greeted myself, he explained what he does and how many cars he tunes there.
Next my car was put on a rolling road, from there it was tested to see what the Standard Bhp was. Bearing in mind every car is different-at time my car had 2450 odd miles on the clock and is running with 17inch Bullet wheels/Runflats-The result came back as 72bhp. Ray then explained in more detailed about what he was going to do and showed me various programmes on his Laptop, each car has it’s own specific programme-It all looked very complicating but he explained what it was and does to the car.
From there I was dropped off into town courtesy of West Tuning where I did bit of shopping-4 hours later was picked up and taken back to the garage to see what had been done.
Ray explained that he managed to tweak the car to 105bhp, but advised that the engine is still very tight and probably in another 10k will be much more improved. I took it for a test drive along the straight road leading onto the Units and straight away could notice the difference!!
The car pulls a lot better from 2k revs straight through up until just over 4k this is nice as when changing up a gear you will be in that powerband again and again!
It is also especially more noticeable whilst driving on dual carriage/motorways-it has a lot more omph to comfortably overtake now and find you can quite happily leave it in 6th as will pull just right. I found that I was looking at the Speedo and was doing 90 without even realising it.
Economy I think has been effected a little-I will confirm this after next re fill it’s not that much as I still did 167 miles on Quarter of a Tank. I have also noticed aswell that if you floor the pedal it does create a little bit of smoke, Ray said this was due to the Live by Wire accelerator but flooring the pedal does not make that much difference and the key is to accelerate smoothly and swiftly and use the Torque efficiently. Once getting back home onto familiar roads it is here I really noticed the difference as I could compare Speeds, Gears and Revs on my local roads-Within the limits of course :p
For anyone wanting to improve the MINI Diesel and give the car what it deserves for power rise and Cheaper running costs without going to a Cooper I would recommend most certainly :D
http://www.west-tuning.com/