I made it to the 'ring went on track and made it back again!
Going to germany aint exactly my idea of an ideal test drive
but none the less it passed it!
After working through the night and still working on it at 7am when we was supposed to meet at brands hatch I text one of the guys to say I'm gonna have to meet them at dover as I still got things to do!!! Was getting a bit crazy but things were clicking together nicely, also managed to get on
grille, painted all black for a smooooooth look
Brand new clubman front bumper, london chroming wanted £280+VAT to re-chrome my old pitted one! New one is alot cheaper!
Got them to do my under-riders though, these were pitted quite bad and hard to get hold of, come up trumps though
Got some new proper bad boy rims aswell, Look mummy, I'm a proper gangsta now
Had some new plates done
Put some graphics on for the trip, this one is for a fellow mini member
I didn't want to put a delsol.com sticker on and give the game away
I wont bore you with all the trip pics but heres some just of mine
Of all the runners on the trip only a handful of people knew about the del sol engine in mine.......following morning I had the bonnet up and pretty much all the runners were gathered round! They honestly had no idea it was packing a punch as we travelled in small convoys so only my convoy knew the looks of the car didnt match the sound.....
Looks like my plan worked, make the car look normal inside and outside like a car a little old lady could drive and no one would batter an eyelid but when you put your foot down
It proper spits pops and bangs off throttle, the sound don't suit the car but I love it! People on the road can't make heads or tails of it?
Heres a short vid of trying to gas someone out of there tent
Don't worry they wasn't inside
Someone told me it pooooped a flame off throttle????? Cue night vid
Going round the Karussell with two passengers
Only had some minor niggles during the trip, nothing major, all sorted now
I know your probably wondering "So how did it go round the track?" Well in a nutshell, a trackday car it aint!
On the road its friggin awesome, on the track with its standard ride height and 165/60/12 tyres and also having more weight on the front and still none on the back it makes it nervous chucking it into a corner, mind you its only been laser tracked, no corner weights or anything like that. It spins up too easy even in third
great for showboating on a track but not so good if you got the timer running?
Only did 5 laps out there, I went more for the banter than anything, I didn't time any laps myself but only filmed one lap as I needed to keep check on the car, I took various people out and one of the passengers said I did a 10.20 with three of us in the car and I had the roof rack on top!
I reckon in the right hands this would awesome round a track, I'm still learning about trackdays and handling in general so who knows, but thats not what the build was about, its about giving the mini some much needed kick up the ass for a sunday car for the road tbh its probably got too much but who cares, right? Jenvey throttle bodies are next on the list btw!
Theres not much to do on the car now, a couple of cosmetic things inside and out and just general squeaks and rattles need finding
I've got castle combe next week and might do bedford autodrome next month, but, I've still got 7 laps left on my 'ring card, so may do a 'quick' weekend visit back there.....
I love this car more everyday