A 9-Second Mini Cooper Goes Wild At Atco Dragway
A 9-Second Mini Cooper Goes Wild At Atco Dragway
By Brian Wagner October 09, 2018 We’ve seen racers get very creative with what engines they stuff into their chassis of choice but a boosted Honda powerplant in a classic 1965 Mini Cooper is something new. Taking a right-hand drive British car that’s more at home on a road course and making it into a nine-second drag car is thinking outside the box, and the team at Dylan Gray Auto Repair made it happen. The Mini Cooper virtually has the dimensions of a golf cart and was designed to be a gas-sipping mini car to deal with high gas prices — high-performance applications were never on the drawing board. They have seen duty in the performance world mostly on road courses in spec class racing or even some rally events, but their tiny stature makes them ripe for some high-horsepower fun at the drag strip. The factory engines these cars came with barely registered over one liter or less in displacement, so motivating them to move quickly takes some creative thinking or an engine swap.
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