Kennomini wrote:
You also need to consider the power levels and what is "sensiable" for a road car. IMO 200bhp is too much for a road mini (this is from hear say not 1st hand experience). Even the guys running 160hp 1.3L minis say it's more than enough.
Same with the turbo ford boys, yes you can run 800bhp+ in them but tune the same car to 400bhp and you won't notice the difference on most race tracks and definatly not on the street.
Their is no benfit of over powering the chasie, just bragging rights and tyre smoke in 3rd...
I agree, I'd also say it is the torque rather than power that causes the car to break traction in the first place, it's also torque that produces rapid acceleration, so ideally I guess you'd want enough torque for goods acceleration but not enough to constantly be breaking traction, grip will vary though so....
At the moment for my cg13de I'm thinking of getting cams and lightening the flywheel, the healthy torque means any loss of low down torque will probably just mean less wheel spin in 1st and 2nd which unless you're boasting or showing off is no bad thing. I'm probably looking at 110 to 120hp with cams, the car is easy to drive behaves itself and has less torque steer than my 1275 A series mini. Power is nice and linear with no sudden rush of power.