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Blog posts of '2012' 'June'

Owen / 1320 R56 Hybrid turbo has arrived
We are proud to announce that leading turbo specialist Owen Developments have teamed up with 1320MINI to produce turbos specifically built to find extra horsepower & torque for the 1st & 2nd generation BMW MINI  

We had the pleasure of going to Santa Pod today to collect from Al Cook driver of the Owen's Twin Turbo Mustang in Street Eliminator, a stock replacement R56 turbo and the Owens / 1320 Hybrid R56 Turbo for testing

We cant wait to get it on the dyno

Stock v Hybrid looks like it should flow a lot more air

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Stock

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Owens / 1320 Hybrid

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Tristo sets new MINI record at Bedord How Fast / EVO magazine circuit
Tristo was the secound person to have his MINI on the dyno Friday night and made a stout 236 whp & 180wtrq............Sat morning and it was off to the Bedford Autodrome How Fast / Evo magazine circuit to see how he would fair.

Unfortunatley after 4 laps on the Toyo 888's netting a 1.25 the flexi joint on the Janspeed manifold split, wisely Tristo brought the car in so they could put the slicks on, with the plan off just going out and doing 4 warm up laps then 1 flying lap which would proberly result in a black flag for noise due to the split in the flexi.

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The end result was a very pleasing new MINI record on this circuit of 1.21.491 

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Power Ranger testing
Thanks to Russ for lending us the Power Ranger today for testing
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As you can see the latest softeare shows rpm & speed

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Power Ranger goes in 4wd mode

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Mustang Dyno Calibration
Jason has now progressed to calibrating the electronics and the software

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The latest Mustang dyno run screen 

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Mustang Dyno progress
Yesterday Jason removed the flood damaged PAU 

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Our MINI crank damper pulley tool was adapted to take the coupler flange off

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The new PAU ready for some new bearings and the coupler to be added


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This morning started off with loading the assembled PAU into its new home

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Settled ito its new home ...........lets hope it stays there for a very long time

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As you can see, no thumbs were damaged or abused in this part of the Mustang Dyno rebuild 

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Mustang Dyno Week
23.5 hours after leaving home in the USA Jason from Mustang has arrived here at Staughton Moor to fix the dyno

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