Mini Cooper Performance - boosting the performance of your Mini Cooper

Now that you have bought the hottest car you have ever owned, why not juice it up a little bit. Your Mini Cooper can be jazzed up with a little performance tuning. The Mini Cooper tuning packages have been used for circuit racing since 1961 and are still raced today. One of the results of that racing spirit is the Mini Cooper “S” type. All you have to do is search the web and you will find hundreds of Mini Cooper performance parts.

The big question is - What can I do to make my Mini faster? Easy. Here are some of the quickest ways of performance tuning your Mini Cooper. Start with the intake system. A free flow racing filter kit can be bought from any number of companies. The way it works is by lowering the restriction on the flow of air into the supercharger. The less restricted the air, the more the supercharger can compress it into the engine. This should pick up an extra 10-12H.P. on the Dyna Flow. While we are talking about the supercharger, why not change the pulley ratio? A smaller pulley increases the R.P.M. of the supercharger. This could get you another 20H.P. These Mini Cooper performance parts will not drain your wallet either. It will cost you about $200(U.S.), plus labor, to get both of these on your car. For adding 32H.P. to your little dynamo that is a steal. Be careful though, the extra airflow on intake will increase the back pressure and engine heat if do not modify your exhaust. There are a lot of options that will increase the overall diameter of your Mini Cooper’s exhaust. All of them improve the throaty growl of your car. Never forget the headers. All of these Mini Copper tuning tips can be bought for $1500(U.S.), plus labor. Not bad for an additional 50+ H.P.

Whatever your taste, there are dozens of ways of tuning a Mini Cooper. You have read a few tips on how to improve the intake and exhaust flow. None involved opening the engine. You still have cams, pistons, valves, etc, to look into if you want to exceed 225 H.P. Then there are steering, braking, and handling performance parts for your Mini Cooper. It does not matter what you do, the Mini Cooper is a racing or street rod enthusiasts dream.