Welcome to my Vauxhall 2.0 16V Twin Engine Mini Site.  This site is to document the progress of a Mini Clubman Estate from a simple 1100cc A Series to a 400bhp+ monster with 4wd and NOS. 

This Mini's main purpose will be drag racing but will still be useable on the street.

I feel that the Mini had reached really what it could in it's current form using the manual F20 gearboxes as the shift times were just too slow and inconsistent for a really quick time on the 1/4 mile.  In order to get around this problem there were 2 options really with the 1st being fully sequential manual boxes but this would be at such a high cost (£10k+) it wasn't viable and the 2nd option to switch from manual to automatic boxes.  The automatic boxes would be a large undertaking in work since they are very large compared to the F20 manuals and even the F20's are quite a tight fit but the costs would be much lower and the gains in consistency on the 1/4 mile hopefully well worth the work.

The Build History section of the site has been renamed to Phase 1 Build and that section will no longer receive any updates, this is quite a large section and would take quite some time to download over a 56k modem link.

The new Phase 2 Build section will contain future upgrades to the Mini including the process of installing the automatic transmissions.

My final goal performance figures are to better the following (hopefully a lot better):

Test                   Goal                               Actual Best                                     

0-60mph             sub 4 seconds                 3.858 seconds    

0-100mph           sub 8 seconds                 9.428 seconds

1/4 Mile              sub 12 seconds               12.489 seconds @ 118.73mph

Top Speed          130+ mph                       124mph

Power                 200bhp+ per engine        170bhp (Front) 195bhp inc 25hp NOS (Rear)

Last Updated : 27/11/2009

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