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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 felt 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 have been at such a high cost (£10k+) it wasn't viable and the 2nd option to switch from manual to automatic boxes.  The automatic boxes were 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 were much lower and the gains in consistency\performance on the 1/4 mile are 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 and relates primarily to the manual F20 installations..

 

The new Phase 2 Build section will contain future upgrades to the Mini including the process of installing the 4T40e automatic transmissions.

 

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

Test                   Goal                               Actual Best (Manual Gearbox)                                        Actual Best (Automatic Transmission)                                     

0-60mph            sub 4 seconds                 3.704 seconds                                                                    3.278 seconds

0-100mph          sub 8 seconds                 9.428 seconds                                                                    7.895 seconds

1/4 Mile             sub 12 seconds              12.489 seconds @ 118.73mph (Gtech meter)                  11.66 seconds @ 116.07mph (Santa Pod)

Top Speed         130+ mph                       124mph                                                                              135mph

Power                 200bhp+ per engine      170bhp (Front) 220bhp inc 50hp NOS (Rear)                  170bhp (Front) 170bhp + 60hp NOS (Rear)

Last Updated : 27/07/2010

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