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ProMini has a fairly long video of both of it's recent project cars in action around their Texas HQ. It features two of the fastest MINI's in exsistance. In fact the silver MINI has the soon to be announced MCS turbo kit which we'll have more about in the coming days. This car includes a Garrett/Turbonetics T3 turbo, Turbonetics blow off valve, ProMini oil cooler, ProMini front mounted intercooler, Supersprint headers and about every concievable ProMini mod in the book.
You can check it out the video here (not recommended for dial-up users).
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I think the numbers on the MCS turbo kit are simply going to astound people. If the price is right ProMini might have a pretty big hit on their hands.
<p>How much hp are we talkin here?</p>
<p>From my understanding final dyno testing hasn't been done yet so it's a little premature at this point to talk about actual numbers. That being said I was given a ballpark figure that was quite impressive and way way over the JCW I might add. Unfortunately I'm not at liberty to give specifics.</p>
<p>I saw these two cars at the Tyler BMP Bimmer / MINI roundup, very impressive! The BMP rep mentioned ballpark figures of around 245 hp for Blue Thunder and around 300 hp for Silver Sonic, although these figures are in no way final and may change. It was also mentioned that at these power levels, the standard clutch will not last long, and a beefed up clutch is pretty much a must.
Both cars looked amazingly well put together in terms of mechanicals. Very impressive!</p>
<p>Just to clarify – on BlueThunder the clutch is fine, it is on the Turbo Silver Sonic car that that clutch upgrade would highly recommended.</p>
<p>Well the very first dyno run has been performaned and without any fuel, rev limit, or any software changes the car at the flywheel is pulling 277hp and 258 lb/ft of torque. This was done with 21psi of boost. Silver Sonic reaches max boost at 4100rpm. Tomorrow they are going to do some initial fuel mixture tests and do a few pulls with more boost and they are going to try and get a dyno chart emailed to me so I can show everyone. All runs are being performed by Dynojet at the Dynojet Factory in NV.</p>
<p>how come the video link is not working?</p>
<p>They must have moved the video. It should be fixed.</p>
<p>Silly question but would the silver Garrett / Turbonetics T3 turbo package be street legal? How much? Who can I call for more questions?</p>
<p>I have a 2003 Cooper S as of right now.</p>