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Good to see so many of you tonight








Harvey must get the Spirit of MINI prize as a driveshaft went and he ask the very nice AA man to tow him the last 7 miles to hang out until the AA lorry turned up



You can guess why Jake & Joe wanted to go to Ace Cafe



On the way home, 6 hours sleep and then off to Santa Pod for a gruelling weekend working on Ellis Motorsport twin turbo Pro Mod car...............can life get any better

Our other dark silver courtesy car got some love last Friday with some new Bilstein B14 PSS coilovers, R56 front calipers Pagid discs and Performance Friction pads all around and Motul 660 brake fluid, contacting the floor was some Neuton 205 45 17 tyres, So whats the best thing to test all these new componets out ?

Answer; A How Fast session at Bedford Autodrome EVO magazine circuit, we did the 1 hour practice session on the Neutons and netted a 1.32.857 a 2.491 sec improvement, we decided to switch the front wheel & tyres to some 16 x7 Rota slipstreams and 195 50 16 Toyo 888's for the 2 flying laps, this netted us our fastest time of the day with a 1.32.263 a 3.085 sec improvement.........we believe that the car and old man Webster have some more left in there.

So now when you visit can try KW V1's or Bilsteins B14 PSS if both courtesy cars are on site.





Who do you think run the faster time in the hot laps ?



Best time on Neutons



Best time on 195 50 16 Toyo 888's

Louis first run of the day looks harmless enough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2HhkGdVVTY&feature=channel

But when he went to turn off at the 1st exit the car lost drive, when the boyz managed to get it back in the pits they found the foloowing






Needless to say everybody pitched in and Loui drove the car home

Harvey managed to destroy an engine mount





A new http://www.1320.co.uk/products/539-mini-r50r53-vibra-technics-engine-mount-04-06-fast-road.aspx went on the car and Harvey managed a New Personal Best of 13.2 on one run and a NPB of 105mph on another.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utv7WXwPREk&feature=relmfu

Scotty bet Richard that he couldn't eat 10 eggs cjps & beans for breakfast.........boyz will be boyz



Luckly the breakfast didn't hamper Richards performance as he set a new record for the quickest & fastest time for a street driven non nitrous MINI with this 12.47 @ 112 run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlFMsBSPZZo

6.30am and 2 MINI's are waiting for a day of abuse


We were prepared if Loui or Harvey turned up :)



Jack put the slicks on and cheked the corner weights


Here is the final session ticket ...........tomorrow back up to Santa Pod

1.25.164 on Yokhama Neova Street Tyres.
Fastest MINI around Bedford West Circuit 1.8Miles (EVO Magazine) on street tyres.

We collected this Startrite bandsaw today, we've only got a few more fabrication machinery purchases to go now :)

Scotty made the boss and Thomas welded it in place for the new air temp sensor

...1243kg / 2736lbs, we were curious after his 105.71mph run at Santa Pod last weekend what this moon roof car weighed in at with Harvey in.

Once again ...congrats on the 13.2 @ 104 and good luck this Sunday