Please can people post up your 30-70mph times in 3rd gear with a basic spec/HP of your MINI. I'm very interested to see how everyone compares as this will test low end/mid range torque which is what we really use everyday instead of outright drag stripe HP. The idea is to read dead on 30mph and then floor it to 70mph.
These can easily be taken on any straight flat piece of national speed limit road with a stop watch and using the OBC read out. Please no slip roads as it can be dangerous and most of them either go up or down hill.
Mine was taken from the average of 4 runs rather than the fastest:
True but I couldnt think of another accurate way which enough people would be able to do. Also if people average their times it shouldnt be tooooo bad.
I'm certainly interested to see the difference to stock....
Early v late cars have different gearing, also tyre & wheel size. We had 205/40-17, now on 215/45-17; the gearing is noticably different. Still its better than 0-60 IMHO
The wheel and tyre combination will alter the overal diameter of the wheel... the smaller the wheels diamter, the faster it rotates, and the better the acceleration Also wheel weights will affect this
So do you think the early or late cars will be quickest?? Mine picks up really well in 3rd and I was quite shocked at how well to be honest, it's certainly loving the cold air at the moment
I really need to do a couple more runs now I have my new manifold on and now i'm back with the Tesco 99. Need to keep the variables as similar as possible.....
I did a run the other night with someone else in the car and timed 6.0 but only timed once so not as accurate.
I know the 0-100 times dropped significantly on the facelift cars.
Temp was 12 degrees C and I was running V-Power which I've only started using. Pre 225 upgrade I used Tesco 99 as the car seemed to run better on it but Lohen said to go with V-Power when I spoke to them last week... might try a few tanks of 99 and re-run.
I also made sure I let the car cool down with a nice run before conducting the next time run as it seemed to help.
I think the pre-facelift cars were doing 0-100 in about 20.5 secs.
Autocar tests its 30-70 time through the gears rather than in 3rd so by having the benchmark figure above maybe we should do the same. I'll try it in 2nd tomorrow and see what times I can post.
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Also wheel weights will affect this 
