This is a tricky one for me, as it's rather the sum of its component parts - all of which seem to have involved some or other little compromise given the ridiculous space constraints.
At the moment, I'm going with the forward firewall. I could have just have easily said the intercooler or the front strut towers. Or the flip front.
For me it is a toss up between flip front and blower, but the moment when the prop shaft just dropped into place was also pretty damn good
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Understeer is when you hit the wall with your front end. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with your back end. Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall. Torque is how far you move the wall when you hit it!
I wonder which bit of the flexi drive broke? Can't have been the shaft itself as that would have been impossible to fix and the way Rich was describing it didn't sound like any of their machining either. Maybe one of the end bearings?
Richard Brunning @richardbrunning · 18h We think the inertia of the alternator/AC pump assembly on engine deceleration caused the spiral bound drive shaft to "unwind" and grow. This caught inside the outer and unwound the whole thing. We've created a new outer and added a sprag type clutched bearing.
Actually, when you think about it, kudos has to go to the level of planning that has gone into the whole of Binky, things that were made years ago that suddenly made sense!
Richard and Nick are probably wetting themselves laughing now having read about ‘planning’ though
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Understeer is when you hit the wall with your front end. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with your back end. Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall. Torque is how far you move the wall when you hit it!
This week, my favourite is either the wheels or the pretend crumple zones (Who are they kidding? Every Mini owner knows their femurs are the collapsible member.)
So, the wheels. It's settled.
