Irish Mini Owners Club

We're putting on the Gowran Festival of Speed again this year on Sunday July 17th, and we would love to invite your club down to display at the show. You can even make a camping weekend out of it and come down on Saturday afternoon for our pre-event party, complete with live entertainment and a carn...

should be a great event!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR8ATUoPC-c

Thats a round of the Hewison Autotest Championship so even if your not competing its a great event to watch. If you do choose to take your mini out jTurnMedia.com will be down recording video and taking photos on both days. Here is the video round up from last years event. https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Unless you think you can get her and her passengers to wear a helmet at all times while driving the car i really wouldn't put a full cage in. Smashing your head against a 4 inch cds steel bar in an impact (even at slow speed) could have some serious consequences. I'd get a safety devices fia spec re...

Cheap, guy did I not hear your car was a 5 digit number to build?? I wasnt referring to my car i was talking about getting started. Not that its appropriate for you to be telling me my own business on a public forum but yes, in the 6 years since i started autotesting the total cost upgrading my car...

wouldnt be expensive to get started if you have parts lying round, lots of autotest cars started out as rolled road cars. Mine did!

I do a lot of autotesting, Lately a lot of the top running minis have been breaking shafts all over the place. We used to run standard shafts but we found them to weak and failures started to become commonplace when the cars started to use ATB diffs and 1430 engines. We have changed to hardened stee...

Here is the edited highlights video for last weekends Hewison Trophy National Autotests in Sahen Media, Sligo and Oranmore, Galway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnsKRium1u0&feature=youtu.be Thanks to all the lads on here who marshaled on Sat, its not a big sport so we really appreciate you all...

Cool pics!

Although yer man must be on something if he told you it has 1000bhp. Those things used a 400hp caterpillar engine!

So after campaigning my mini in the saloon class of autotesting a few months ago we decided to bite the bullet and convert the car into a full special to run in the top class. We sent the car up to Castlederg Mini and autotest specialist Ken Irwin and he did a stunning job and the car was straight o...

Spotted a red Mk2 Cooper S with white roof this afternoon, NZO reg, possibly Eamon Byrnes rally car Could be. There's a really good multivenue autotest on tomorrow (Sun 30th) around slane. 6 minis on the entry including Eamon and Dermot Carnegie. They have info and gps coordinates for all the test ...

http://hewisonautotest.com/images/logo.jpg The Hewison Trophy has become the first autotest championship in Ireland to launch its own website. http://www.hewisonautotest.com provides: Up to date news A calendar of events All the latest points tables for overall and class A how to on getting started...

That was my car for a few months!

If the engine your putting into it is the original one it hasnt been lying up for 10 years. More like 10 months.

I see on topgear.com that they have filmed a special in india. The idea of the trip is that they wanted to promote (in their own special way) trade links with india. They have a bit of a better budget this time £7k to spend on a car to be exact. Clarkson got himself a jag xjs 4.0l May gets himself a...

came across this today.
lad up north selling an old autotest gtm
i dunno much about it but someone on here might!

http://www.autotestdriversclub.co.uk/te ... index2.asp

Well my retro mini is finally done. I bought it a year ago and it used to be a blue sidewalk and i have done alot of work done since. Here's the spec: Rustoleum paint job MK3 sliding window conversion 1380cc MED Engine 4 pin diff Hif 44 Rac spec sump guard 7.5 inch brake set up hi lows spax adjustab...

was that not 96? when the mpi was introduced

that mini was out racing in the tdc new years trial last weekend. it was goin very well if its only an 850

ill b up with some wheels and bits and bobs

i have a med 1380 and im wondering how much it will cost to have it rebuilt?
the box is fine as is the diff so im guessing it would need new rings etc (it was gettin a bit smokey)
i would also be thinking of putting in a 275 cam into it and mabye a quaife atb diff

ure right it is up and running. theyve been running testing for karts for 2 months now and they got their rental karts a few weeks back.
their website is also up and running
http://www.whiteriver.ie/

as far as i know the track doesnt have the insurance to cover track days yet. if someone is organising a day out count me in! do u have to be insured on the car or can u take it on a trailer and drive it as long as its deemed trackworthy?

those seats are soon to be in my minis interior:P

its not 100% confirmed yet but mini is coming back to rallys! well a bini is anyway. prodrive (the team that built the subaru wrc cars) have done a deal with bmw to run a works mini team on next years wrc under the new 1.6l turbo s2000 regulations. the car will be based around the mini countryman. w...