:cornut: Smarter people than me will be along shortly but, let's take a crack at this. As I recall the 'hybrid turbo'(intake/exhaust turbo vanes now dissimilar in size) that you speak of is or is similar to the JCW turbo on the 09 and later models. The models have the same inter cooler as the MCS. They do however have a JCW computer tune different from the MCS tune. So MINI upgraded the tune when they upgraded the turbo and you should probably do like wise. I hope that this helps.
Jason
