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Any extra air coming in the hood scoop, is insignificant compared to the size of the hole at the underside of the engine compartment that is venting air out of that space.

Dave

 

Nope but then again the scoop is more of an aesthetic thing after the R53 since it was and is still functional on the first Gens.

Its kind of like calling a F'ed 56 a MINI. :lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

The R56 hood scoop is only cosmetic. As noted, the Goodwood edition is an S with no hood slot (it uses a closed hood from the MINI diesel model).

The original hood scoop in the 2007 R56 S was completely closed. The plastic scoop insert often warped from the turbo heat. There is a 300+ post thread on NAM on this topic. MINI tried to address this issue by adding holes to the scoop (but you can see it is very minimal), but mostly by additional hood insulation (which doesn't help with air circulation through the holes).


The MINI Challenge race car dispensed with any notion of using the scoop for cool air intake, and added exit vents.

 

All more of a reason to my headers and custom exhaust like Nate and I.

If you don't know we are coming you are deaf. :devil::eek6:

 

The R56 has a cold air intake that gets outside air from the front lower left side of the car.

There was a Youtube video that showed a car on a chassis dynamometer. They tried all kinds of aftermarket cold air intakes, none worked better than the OEM intake, some made the same horsepower, most made less. All the aftermarket cold air intakes were noisier.

Dave

 

"coast muffler"=coastfab...One of those packed with kevlar and problem solved. You won't blow the packing, and if you ever decided to change the packing for whatever reason it's a piece of cake. It's eventually what I'm going to do. Not cheap though.

 

It goes "Woooo Woooo Woooo"

[ame=http://youtu.be/VW22yUGEcuM]Whistle tips go Woooo WOOooooo - YouTube[/ame]

 

I think someone recorded "My exhaust" on a friends Yellow MINI cooper a few years ago at the Dragon during the exhaust sound off. It's around here on M/A somewhere.

I had my Milltek on and leaded mine to him when his exhaust rusted apart right before the Dragon.

I found it and Paul ran the car slow so it was not as loud until the end.

http://http://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL8EA9B34F57F6041B&v=j_rdluCO7bo

 

Anyone have a part number for that Challenge Scoop?

 

Here's the PN for the #1 part....

51238320187

Anything else?

 

My mechanic has one, but it was packed with, "scrubble", which we surmised is just Stainless steel wool type material? Do you happen to have a link, phone number to Coast Fab?

 

That it! Thanks! Sure enough, Scrubble is an option

 

Go with titanium scrubble..... much lighter than SS scrubble...

Lathe turnings are easy to get from a metal recycler.... The Ti will stand up to higher temperatures than SS...

 

Hey, I actually know a place where I could get some......hmm........

 

Well, F1 sounds from any year up through 2013....there is no sound in F1 anymore...only soft whispers....the only way you know you don't have your audio system muted when watching a race is when the commercials come on...