Ownership Verified: Wake me up once your turbo spooled up - Meet Scotty, D-Fence's supercharged Mini

[gt1750]

There is a lot of weird crap for sale for MINIs

Yes.

As an uncertified fortune teller I hereby predict that a pair of these will be installed on your car during Ringmeet.

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Along with these:

 

[D-Fence]

I checked the oil level some days ago.......well, stick was dry. So today I added 1.2l (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) to top it up again, didnt check when I bought it.
According to Blackman these beasts eat oil like mad, 0,5l/1000km is possible. Got to watch this in the next weeks. Interestingly, it was missing over 1l of oil and no light was on...

Also, I attacked the tons of rockchips with an ebay paint pen, which worked quite well:

I got to get that dent removed at some point, but right now, not motivated to do it.

 

[MWF]

Dude the oil light is for oil pressure not oil level!

You need to use the dipstick, you dipstick!

 

[D-Fence]

Dude the oil light is for oil pressure not oil level!

You need to use the dipstick, you dipstick!

Yeah, I noticed, my previous cars had a yellow oil warning for level and a red one for pressure.
I assumed the Mini was the same, it is not.

 

[IceBone]

Yeah, german brands have oil level sensors. Brits are still too primitive.

 

[MWF]

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[gaasc]

Probs not. It's "Stick of metal that will work until the end of time" versus "How do we know if the sensor is dead? I know! ANOTHER SENSOR!!"

That and, you know, that particular Mini is about as British as a Sauerkraut Empadão

 

[IceBone]

Sometimes my sarcasm is so advanced, people think I'm actually that stupid.

 

[Mitchi]

1.2 liters, nice. How much does it hold in total? Being a 1.6, probably somewhere around 4,x liters?

 

[Adunaphel]

eat oil like mad, 0,5l/1000km

As the former owner of a 190E:

 

[Redliner]

Probs not. It's "Stick of metal that will work until the end of time" versus "How do we know if the sensor is dead? I know! ANOTHER SENSOR!!"

That and, you know, that particular Mini is about as British as a Sauerkraut Empadão

Empadão out of nowhere.

 

[MWF]

Sometimes my sarcasm is so advanced, people think I'm actually that stupid.

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It's all down to timing. "Advanced" as opposed to "retarded".

 

[blackman]

1.2 liters, nice. How much does it hold in total? Being a 1.6, probably somewhere around 4,x liters?

4.5 liters total

 

[D-Fence]

Well, at a red light I noticed my car breathing smoke like a dragon out of the hood scope, and when pulling into garage I left oil drips.
Not sure right now if it is

a) me spilling stuff (which I did)
b) me overfilling (stick level is at max)
c) what blackman had, oil leaking out of cap due to bad o-ring

I will get a new O-Ring and observe.

The dragon breath feature I like though, looks cool. Also does it in rain when water is on intercooler.

 

[blackman]

As discussed PCV valve is another possible reason. I’ll check mine as well... these things just like to leak oil...


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[D-Fence]

Ordered a PCV and O-Ring. Installing it after I come back from Thailand.

 

[D-Fence]

Well, the oil fix has worked. Ran the car hard for 1500km through Italian mountains, minimal oil consumption. Car really really comes alive there, I could keep up with a Boxster GTS up a mountain pass (he disappeared on the straights and I tailgated him in the next corner).