Hello Friend, I believe there is a multi point injection model of this mini with a final drive much more suited to regular and track use. I believe it's the European model and I found
the specs including gear ratios (identical to the ones you have provided) and final drive (which I believe could be changed to subjectively improve the mod
Hi, thank you for the link. The reason I went with the 2.76 final drive for the mod is simply because that's what the real car has (all MPis did have the 2.76, at least in Europe - Japan might not have because they kept the SPi engine - but that's getting complicated...). And, I wanted to replicate my Mini as closely as possible too, because it is almost 100% stock.
But you're right, a lower FD ratio is way better for track driving and just general low-speed driving, and its an increasingly common swap which many owners of MPi Minis do when their gearboxes need rebuilding (I might put a 3.2 in mine when the time comes).
But that's why I created the S1 and S2 - I knew a lot of people would probably find the stock version too slow and underpowered, so that one is in there really just to give people an idea of what a 100% stock Mini is like. Also, even the stock version in AC has negative camber front and rear, and the optimal toe/caster setup for a road Mini - not identical to the real life stock suspension settings. Again, because I knew people would probably complain if the car had positive camber like the real one.
So I had to make a few small compromises so that people would enjoy it more.
I could very easily add another step version with stock power but a lower FD ratio, but to be honest most people would probably go straight for the S1 and S2 anyway which would defeat the object.
The base version seems not to have enough power to even hold speed in forth gear, is that by design? (tried Monza 1966, and on the straight, when I go from 3rd to 4th it slowly looses speed, down shift @ >140 km/h)
Other than that, I like it
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Yes that's as designed, pretty much see above. 4th gear on the MPi/Mk.7 Minis was purely for cruising. Top speed can be achieved in 3rd. So, unless you have a long downhill section, 4th is pretty much useless for track driving. No need to use it.
