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Early in March my car took it’s annual trip to 1320 Mini for the “final” stage of it’s engine power upgrade. Since late last year 1320 had been working on my spare cylinder head to convert it to their top specification Big Valve Head (Ferrea valves, Crower springs and titanium retainers)

A few photos from the second cars and coffee event hosted by the Porsche Centre Colchester, an really good collection of cars and superb spring weather.  

Regardless of how you feel about it track day noise limits are with us and only likely to get more restrictive as time goes on. Despite the benefits to the local economies located close to racing circuits it seems a common trend that pressure from residents and local authorities mean

When I first started out on my track day car project one of the requirements was that I would be able to drive the car across Europe in relative comfort (more on that later) so I could take it on the Nürburgring. I don’t have space for a trailer and

It’s been a couple of months since I got the car back after the engine rebuild at 1320Mini and I’ve finally managed to get the car back on track. After the engine rebuild there was the small issue of 500 “gentle” miles on mineral oil to bed the engine in

I like to do as much of the work on my car as possible but sometimes there are jobs that are outside of my abilities, this is one of those examples. A few weeks ago I took my car to 1320Mini with the intention of having CatCam fitted along with

In the last post I’d replaced the leaking stock radiator with a new all aluminium Mishimoto part, sadly that wasn’t the last of the problems I experienced with the cooling system. With only a couple of weeks to go before my final track day of the season at Donington the