Funny you mention working on a true Mini Cooper motor. A good friend of mine had a 1972 Mini Cooper that had a full-out race motor installed. It was bored and strocked to 1375cc, high rise cams, high compression, oversized valves and the whole works was lightened-up in every way imaginable other than still having a passenger seat (on the left side.)
He had taken me for a ride, and WOW was that thing fast. I think the car weighed under 1600 pounds (728kg) and the motor put out over 250HP. He took me to a local industrial park that had a small roundabout at the junction of all the roads. The fastest I'd ever been around it (marked at 25mph) in my 350HP Pontiac GTO/Holden Monaro HSV was about 40mph. He had me hanging out the window doing over 60!
Good times.
He had taken me for a ride, and WOW was that thing fast. I think the car weighed under 1600 pounds (728kg) and the motor put out over 250HP. He took me to a local industrial park that had a small roundabout at the junction of all the roads. The fastest I'd ever been around it (marked at 25mph) in my 350HP Pontiac GTO/Holden Monaro HSV was about 40mph. He had me hanging out the window doing over 60!
Good times.