The Art of Tinkering: A Journey with Mighty Car Mods

As we began our journey with Mighty Car Mods, we knew that we were in for a treat. Our trusty sidekick, Martin, had a plan to take an old car and turn it into a beast of a machine. The first step was to loosen off the factory tensioner, hoping that we had enough adjustment to avoid buying another belt. This proved to be a wise decision, as our new pulley fit perfectly, allowing us to get back on track with ample adjustments still available.

The next challenge was to replace the fuel pump. We weren't specifically looking to upgrade, but rather ensure reliability in the face of unknown conditions. Our friends from Arrow Clove dropped off a brand new pump, and we were eager to get it installed. With the tank out, we carefully placed the new pump inside, making sure everything fit snugly. It was a relief that we wouldn't have to drain the tank, as this would have added unnecessary complexity to the job.

With the fuel pump in place, we turned our attention to tuning the car's performance. We knew that with 85, a fuel volume increase was necessary, so why not upgrade to something better? Our new fuel pump and pressure regulator were installed, and we were ready for some power runs. Inspecting the spark plugs revealed the need for an adjustment, but this was a small price to pay for the potential gains.

The moment of truth arrived as we fired up the engine for our final power run. The car came to life, and with it, a chorus of cheers from the workshop. We knew that we had done something special, and the numbers would back us up. With 54% more power than before, this was no small feat.

As we celebrated our success, we couldn't help but compare our results to those of another car, featuring an identical engine size but with a significantly lighter weight. The result? A whopping 54% power increase. This was no mere tweak; it was a full-on overhaul that had transformed the vehicle into a performance monster.

Our journey with Mighty Car Mods has been one for the books. From fuel pump replacements to spark plug adjustments, we've seen firsthand the art of tinkering at its finest. As we reflect on our progress, we're reminded that sometimes, the smallest changes can lead to the greatest rewards. And as we look to the future, we know that there are many more adventures waiting for us behind the wheel.

Finally, we wanted to express our gratitude to our followers who have joined us on this journey. We hope you've enjoyed the ride, and we can't wait to share more of our experiences with you in the coming weeks. Until next time, when we'll be taking a familiar car for a spin, thank you for watching, and we'll see you around!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit has been many weekends and late nights and finally our supercharged mini is ready for the dyno our little mini is alive in today's the day we see if it all works doing the honours as our tow vehicle is Marty's 11 second wagon super grams proving that you can smash out some awesome quarter-mile times and then also tow our mini when you've got an ever practical Subaru so we have arrived at this incredibly exciting and frightening part of our build we are down here at Hal tech the mini is on the dyno we're going to be doing a couple of turns we're going to be doing a ninety eight tune of course we've also got just over there we've got a can pull of a 85 it's been such a huge amount of work it's been way way more than I expected luckily we've got you know all these legends helping the Marty and Darth Vader and today tuning fork as well here it is it is a thing of beauty as you can see isn't it a wonderful thing of beauty I'm talking about you tuning fork a thing of beauty there is and then there's the engine as well which is also awesome there's just so much work but you know what it just represents a whole lot of time mates hanging out learning stuff which is what this mini was all about and I just can't wait to drive it because again this car was never meant to be a dyno Queen it is a road experience car taking me back to my youth it's very cool I'm a little tense though because it isn't unknown as far as we know this is the first supercharged Classic Mini running on e 85 in the world from what we've researched and looked around we haven't heard of any others so it's pretty exciting and frightening but it's gonna be good we know that the mini starts but other than that it's basically untested and there is some nervous tension in the room because this is not your run-of-the-mill build and while we want to see a good increase in power we also don't want to blow anything up yep I'm feeling pretty anxious about it to be honest okay I'm feeling very anxious because of the uniqueness of it there's some extra considerations that we need to take into account while we're tuning it because of the style of Engineers we're gonna have to turn it a little bit differently to just about every other engine made because it's called a Siam YZ port engine which means that a couple of cylinders share Inlet ports and a couple of cylinders share exhaust ports so what happens is because of the firing order the engine you've got the the engines pulling air in but it pulls it out of one board at a time so we need to make sure that there's heaps of fuel there all the time so that the siamese for the effect of it isn't going to lean out every second cylinder churning port the other thing is obviously there's a couple of ways that you can get fuel into the system and we have our injectors before the supercharger is that going to affect anything with your tuning yeah it is this is the way that this is set up is normal Xstrata body injection is normally what it's known as sequential or port injection is when each injectors mounted at the inlet valve so it's in the inlet manifold sprays right before the inlet valve in a conventional motor with this with that swaddle body style injection we've got our throttle bodies just here but then all of the fuels getting delivered before the supercharger it all gets mixed up in the supercharger which actually lubricates it and it cools it down a little bit yeah then it goes into the motor so it's really important the manifold design below there because we've got no control over trimming each injector individually because so we'll just get mixed up and just getting pushed in there wherever it wants to go running 85 is obviously going to call this down as well as the the system that we've got to keep it cool running 85 is going to make this run colder than if we were just running 98 yeah definitely and the reason for that is we've got our air temp sensor here which means is our air temperature going in once it's gone with your injectors through the supercharger just before it hits the inlet valve we call it the charge air so charge air is a mixture of the air temp going in the relationship between air temp and coolant temp takes a role because as the air goes in if engine's boiling hot the charge is going to be hotter the engines cold charge is going to be colder likewise when we put the ethanol through you do get a cooling effect from so much extra fuel going through as well as the 85 sort of vaporizing I guess ladies and gentlemen tuning fork thanks thanks very much here okay we're getting ready for our first run which will be a ninety eight tune we're running the car just to make sure that nothing is leaking and that our belt system is okay once we've ensure that everything is all good then we're going for a power run okay let's do this so tuning fork has put on a usable tune on the dyno when the car is running on 98 so it's going to take it for a quick little drive around the street and make sure that actually works one of those things first time starting and using a car we've also noticed that our fuel regulator sits too high and the hoses coming out of it a fouling on the bonnet so we can close the bonnet but it's possibly cutting through stuff that we don't want to cut through so to go around the block we're basically just going to kind of clip it on and get some cable ties and hold that down and then get a different fuel rig tomorrow really our focus is going to be on the e85 tune but this is just to make sure that if there is no 85 available you can still go and get normal pump fuel and get your car around because otherwise if your car's e85 only you're stuck on the side of the road which is useless so we're just going to make sure this 98 tune actually works on the road then we're going to come back and do the good stuff which is the e85 should I only start left it's to build up a bit of confidence you know if it doesn't make it down the ends first-first Drive supercharged me yeah also man working the belt didn't flick off everything sounds pretty good our 98 rune is successful so we can head back to the workshop and then drain out all of the 98 octane fuel then we can fill the mini up with sweet sweet ethanol we're also checking up on our supercharger cooling system that's using a PC fan and it is running like a dream with all of the 98 gone it's time to fill up with a 85 all was going well but now there's this really weird sound coming out of our fuel tank weird noise isn't it our screaming fuel tank seems to have stopped and the mini is now officially running on ethanol for the first time we're loading the mini back on the dyno and this is where we're hoping to see some solid gains in performance and talk and our time will be spent optimizing this tune the great thing about running the haltech and flex fuel center is that we'll be able to run 98 and e85 or any combination of the two as the ECU will constantly monitor the mixtures and adjust the tune according to the ratio of what is in the tank it's been a big day and night has fallen over the workshop so let's do this after a few power runs tuning fork gives us the verdict if you have the 80% increase in power yeah 20 legs messy and the ethanol is taken up that fit so the effort that it's taking you to push the supercharger when you're cruising around is offset by their thumb Wow so it's already a winner for sure are you how nice I'm really happy I think we can probably need a pump fuel pump regulator and then we can probably push it a little bit further I would say but it's not all good news one issue is that we're running way too much boost and unlike turbos we can't adjust that easily we've also got a feeling that the factory exhaust pipe is holding us back and add it to this we've got fueling issues which means we need a new pump and regulator and all of this at 3:00 a.m. it's the middle of the night now we can't actually get any of these things now so we're going to make a call get some things organized probably going to be fuel tank out maybe a couple of hours of work and then get it back on the dyno and see how we go the next morning we were meant to be back at haltech for our final dyno run but we're taking a detour we're pretty sure the factory exhaust components are causing a restriction so we're just going to get rid of them completely and replace the whole thing with a full stainless steel performance system this is the old system here so this was a 1 and 3/4 inches and we're changing that system to a two and a half inch full stainless steel system done we'd like Popham add components and stuff so basically we've got a new flex joint up here planned here look at this this has got all done by Chris down here pal tool performs Rosie he's hired it there he is over there welding things up like a boss from here we've got our higher flow catalytic converter motor sensor hanging up there from there we'll get our mat up hot dog and everyone live start a hot dog in their buns every now and then from there we've got a stainless steel muffler which is here this is like so much lighter than what was on there before just a popper Matt performance muffler and then from there we're going to replicate the angles and then at the very end of two and a half inch pipe hanging out not hanging out too far because that just kind of looks weird we'll work out the angle when we get there and that is going to be our pulley custom stainless steel performance mini system it's going to be mad in fact the other option was possibly bozo pipes in stereo what are your commander just out the back split and two bozo pipes right off the back we meet Jamie after all would you be into that on our view it is a temporary thing all right that'll be all set five minutes no okay bozo meeting it's going to be awesome what a boss even though I hadn't originally planned on installing a full exhaust system I've got to say it does feel really good to know that it's been done properly this is a car that I'm going to be keeping forever and there's been so much time and effort put into this mini cooper to make sure that it runs right and I don't want it held back by a couple of factory exhaust components when we're right near the end of this project and it's such a relatively easy thing to change the next thing to do is position the exhaust tip exactly where I want it which means deleting the factory hanger and adding our own which will then attach to our new system and that's it the mini now has a proper two-and-a-half inch exhaust system all the way back through a performance cat hot dog resonator and finishing off with a stainless steel performance muffler and the boys smash this out for us in just a morning with that done we can bring the car down and see what it sounds like with our exhaust system done now we've got to fix our next problem too much boost we're dragging the Mini over to see our friends at GFP they make blow-off valves wastegate boost controllers short shift kits pulley kits and today they're going to make me a custom supercharger pulley which is going to get our boost into a much safer level jonno has whipped up this design on his screen and then using a blank piece of metal the design is entered into a CNC machine which is then going to nibble out my perfect new supercharger pulley in just a few minutes and starting with this blank the machine has spat out a perfect pulley all ready to install on my mini unlike turbochargers where you've got wastegate you can kind of bleed off and so you've got adjustment of how much boost pressure you're running with superchargers you can't do that so you have to kind of decide how much boost you're going to be running and that's based on the physicalities of the size of your pulley now this here was the pulley that came with the kit which was made over in the UK ah it's running too much boost which means we need a bigger pulley now luckily we're down here with our mate John Oh from GFB hello John okay mate tell me what you've done here and how we're going to fix this mini we've obviously worked out that the diameter of this pulley is too small creating too much boost so what we've done we've calculated based on what boost this was creating for you guys we were running that 15 psi all right so base this pulley on 15 clear ties we have made a range of different sized pulleys which are larger which should give you an adjustment between 8 and 10 psi there's a bit of a misconception that double the size of the pulley will give you half the amount of food it's not that's not relative that way it's not actually right because what happens you've got to base it above absolute zero pressure and so what happens is this might be making 15 psi but that's really approximately 30 psi of absolute pressure so you use that as your benchmark use that as your benchmark and then we've got to base it on that so if that is your 30 psi of absolute pressure we have to basically use ratio in a certain ratio formula to create what we wanted to achieve which as you said was around 10 psi so all we've got to do now is actually see if this fits with our current belt system if we need more belt we can't buy that in Australia so we're screwed or we try to adjust the factory tensioner and see if we've got enough adjustment to fit this with the con felt that we have it you can see the size of the original pulley on top compared to the larger ones that we've made our next step is to loosen off the factory tensioner and hope that we've got enough adjustment so that we don't need to buy another belt because the size we need is impossible to get our new pulley is a perfect fit and our build is on with ample adjustments still available this is freaking amazing the grill goes back on and now it's time to head back to haltech so that we can fix our fuelling issues the legends from arrow clove just dropped us off a new fuel pump now we're not specifically changing the fuel pump so that we can get more fuel even though that may be something that we need it's more just about reliability we're not sure the conditions the one that is in there so we're going to put this in which means fuel tank out fuel out put this in and then we can run the car again and then we're going to make sure that there's enough pressure to get through that rig and give us some mad choo-choo haleh's so that's like that's a very similar style to what you've seen cars everywhere right most cars have a pump that's very similar to that these days and so we're going to pull out our fuel tank and we're going to drop that in make it fit yep we should be able to put like the you know the filter on there and everything in jammer the liner type run some power to it yep said it happy days yeah well obviously we're doing this because after a little bit of time yesterday we found that we were running out of fuel delivery so we want to make sure that we're not going to do any damage to the motor and make sure that we're keeping the feel up to it so we don't know the condition of the pump that's in the in the tank now so let's just replace it with a good quality pump yeah because it's also it's brand new it's parents have a ten years old something like that yeah and also the fact that 85 needs more fuel volume it does so we're going to pump away more feel up to it so might as well get something that's a bit of an upgrade yep and um yeah yeah it's safety but yeah it's an upgrade at the same time so it also means as well we're typing some good points that we know what's in there because at the moment that's just a total unknown and so far we've been able to have control over our super charging how we're feeling how we're tuning and that's like one area that we just is a complete like black hole isn't it get pumped get pump get pump time to pull out the fuel tank and throw in our mad new fuel pump faster we try Oh the fuel pump has been replaced and luckily we were able to do it without having to drain the tank our new fuel pump and fuel pressure regulator have been installed so now we're ready for a couple of power runs we're inspecting the spark plugs and making an adjustment to the fuel pressure regulator and now we're all set for our final power run there is applause from inside the car and a very happy miles I'd tell you how much power it may but I have no idea what I do know is that there are a lot of smiling faces and ate a lot of cheering going on in the workshop mum I'm late on me all I'm gonna say is it got a similar power outputs on what the blue turd Hey and that felt fast same size engine yes and it was a lot heavier like it with 200 kilos heavier so what's the number Martin what's our decrease or increase in power as a percentage I think you're around 54% power increase well you had 54% oh yeah which is that's forced induction and ethanol so awesome that's huge yeah because if you had like a zombie arriving you put in like a boost controller front mount exhaust you wouldn't get that big of a change well it's like it's going from 200 to 300 kilowatts that's huge yeah awesome and that in a little car that weighs around 600 kilos yeah that's awesome thanks so much for following us on this series of course thank you two miles aka go straight up from am Auto Services thank you to a he's going there he's gonna get all the way back there thank you there it is start turning port back there thank you of course for following this mad series um I love it we're going to get it down and um maybe only the ticket for honest maybe should do a video take it for a drive so I'll do that with people all right let's do that next video driving the mini for the first time thank you very much for watching of course you can follow us on the face of Falls facebook.com forward slash Mighty Car Mods see you next time mini madness how good is itit has been many weekends and late nights and finally our supercharged mini is ready for the dyno our little mini is alive in today's the day we see if it all works doing the honours as our tow vehicle is Marty's 11 second wagon super grams proving that you can smash out some awesome quarter-mile times and then also tow our mini when you've got an ever practical Subaru so we have arrived at this incredibly exciting and frightening part of our build we are down here at Hal tech the mini is on the dyno we're going to be doing a couple of turns we're going to be doing a ninety eight tune of course we've also got just over there we've got a can pull of a 85 it's been such a huge amount of work it's been way way more than I expected luckily we've got you know all these legends helping the Marty and Darth Vader and today tuning fork as well here it is it is a thing of beauty as you can see isn't it a wonderful thing of beauty I'm talking about you tuning fork a thing of beauty there is and then there's the engine as well which is also awesome there's just so much work but you know what it just represents a whole lot of time mates hanging out learning stuff which is what this mini was all about and I just can't wait to drive it because again this car was never meant to be a dyno Queen it is a road experience car taking me back to my youth it's very cool I'm a little tense though because it isn't unknown as far as we know this is the first supercharged Classic Mini running on e 85 in the world from what we've researched and looked around we haven't heard of any others so it's pretty exciting and frightening but it's gonna be good we know that the mini starts but other than that it's basically untested and there is some nervous tension in the room because this is not your run-of-the-mill build and while we want to see a good increase in power we also don't want to blow anything up yep I'm feeling pretty anxious about it to be honest okay I'm feeling very anxious because of the uniqueness of it there's some extra considerations that we need to take into account while we're tuning it because of the style of Engineers we're gonna have to turn it a little bit differently to just about every other engine made because it's called a Siam YZ port engine which means that a couple of cylinders share Inlet ports and a couple of cylinders share exhaust ports so what happens is because of the firing order the engine you've got the the engines pulling air in but it pulls it out of one board at a time so we need to make sure that there's heaps of fuel there all the time so that the siamese for the effect of it isn't going to lean out every second cylinder churning port the other thing is obviously there's a couple of ways that you can get fuel into the system and we have our injectors before the supercharger is that going to affect anything with your tuning yeah it is this is the way that this is set up is normal Xstrata body injection is normally what it's known as sequential or port injection is when each injectors mounted at the inlet valve so it's in the inlet manifold sprays right before the inlet valve in a conventional motor with this with that swaddle body style injection we've got our throttle bodies just here but then all of the fuels getting delivered before the supercharger it all gets mixed up in the supercharger which actually lubricates it and it cools it down a little bit yeah then it goes into the motor so it's really important the manifold design below there because we've got no control over trimming each injector individually because so we'll just get mixed up and just getting pushed in there wherever it wants to go running 85 is obviously going to call this down as well as the the system that we've got to keep it cool running 85 is going to make this run colder than if we were just running 98 yeah definitely and the reason for that is we've got our air temp sensor here which means is our air temperature going in once it's gone with your injectors through the supercharger just before it hits the inlet valve we call it the charge air so charge air is a mixture of the air temp going in the relationship between air temp and coolant temp takes a role because as the air goes in if engine's boiling hot the charge is going to be hotter the engines cold charge is going to be colder likewise when we put the ethanol through you do get a cooling effect from so much extra fuel going through as well as the 85 sort of vaporizing I guess ladies and gentlemen tuning fork thanks thanks very much here okay we're getting ready for our first run which will be a ninety eight tune we're running the car just to make sure that nothing is leaking and that our belt system is okay once we've ensure that everything is all good then we're going for a power run okay let's do this so tuning fork has put on a usable tune on the dyno when the car is running on 98 so it's going to take it for a quick little drive around the street and make sure that actually works one of those things first time starting and using a car we've also noticed that our fuel regulator sits too high and the hoses coming out of it a fouling on the bonnet so we can close the bonnet but it's possibly cutting through stuff that we don't want to cut through so to go around the block we're basically just going to kind of clip it on and get some cable ties and hold that down and then get a different fuel rig tomorrow really our focus is going to be on the e85 tune but this is just to make sure that if there is no 85 available you can still go and get normal pump fuel and get your car around because otherwise if your car's e85 only you're stuck on the side of the road which is useless so we're just going to make sure this 98 tune actually works on the road then we're going to come back and do the good stuff which is the e85 should I only start left it's to build up a bit of confidence you know if it doesn't make it down the ends first-first Drive supercharged me yeah also man working the belt didn't flick off everything sounds pretty good our 98 rune is successful so we can head back to the workshop and then drain out all of the 98 octane fuel then we can fill the mini up with sweet sweet ethanol we're also checking up on our supercharger cooling system that's using a PC fan and it is running like a dream with all of the 98 gone it's time to fill up with a 85 all was going well but now there's this really weird sound coming out of our fuel tank weird noise isn't it our screaming fuel tank seems to have stopped and the mini is now officially running on ethanol for the first time we're loading the mini back on the dyno and this is where we're hoping to see some solid gains in performance and talk and our time will be spent optimizing this tune the great thing about running the haltech and flex fuel center is that we'll be able to run 98 and e85 or any combination of the two as the ECU will constantly monitor the mixtures and adjust the tune according to the ratio of what is in the tank it's been a big day and night has fallen over the workshop so let's do this after a few power runs tuning fork gives us the verdict if you have the 80% increase in power yeah 20 legs messy and the ethanol is taken up that fit so the effort that it's taking you to push the supercharger when you're cruising around is offset by their thumb Wow so it's already a winner for sure are you how nice I'm really happy I think we can probably need a pump fuel pump regulator and then we can probably push it a little bit further I would say but it's not all good news one issue is that we're running way too much boost and unlike turbos we can't adjust that easily we've also got a feeling that the factory exhaust pipe is holding us back and add it to this we've got fueling issues which means we need a new pump and regulator and all of this at 3:00 a.m. it's the middle of the night now we can't actually get any of these things now so we're going to make a call get some things organized probably going to be fuel tank out maybe a couple of hours of work and then get it back on the dyno and see how we go the next morning we were meant to be back at haltech for our final dyno run but we're taking a detour we're pretty sure the factory exhaust components are causing a restriction so we're just going to get rid of them completely and replace the whole thing with a full stainless steel performance system this is the old system here so this was a 1 and 3/4 inches and we're changing that system to a two and a half inch full stainless steel system done we'd like Popham add components and stuff so basically we've got a new flex joint up here planned here look at this this has got all done by Chris down here pal tool performs Rosie he's hired it there he is over there welding things up like a boss from here we've got our higher flow catalytic converter motor sensor hanging up there from there we'll get our mat up hot dog and everyone live start a hot dog in their buns every now and then from there we've got a stainless steel muffler which is here this is like so much lighter than what was on there before just a popper Matt performance muffler and then from there we're going to replicate the angles and then at the very end of two and a half inch pipe hanging out not hanging out too far because that just kind of looks weird we'll work out the angle when we get there and that is going to be our pulley custom stainless steel performance mini system it's going to be mad in fact the other option was possibly bozo pipes in stereo what are your commander just out the back split and two bozo pipes right off the back we meet Jamie after all would you be into that on our view it is a temporary thing all right that'll be all set five minutes no okay bozo meeting it's going to be awesome what a boss even though I hadn't originally planned on installing a full exhaust system I've got to say it does feel really good to know that it's been done properly this is a car that I'm going to be keeping forever and there's been so much time and effort put into this mini cooper to make sure that it runs right and I don't want it held back by a couple of factory exhaust components when we're right near the end of this project and it's such a relatively easy thing to change the next thing to do is position the exhaust tip exactly where I want it which means deleting the factory hanger and adding our own which will then attach to our new system and that's it the mini now has a proper two-and-a-half inch exhaust system all the way back through a performance cat hot dog resonator and finishing off with a stainless steel performance muffler and the boys smash this out for us in just a morning with that done we can bring the car down and see what it sounds like with our exhaust system done now we've got to fix our next problem too much boost we're dragging the Mini over to see our friends at GFP they make blow-off valves wastegate boost controllers short shift kits pulley kits and today they're going to make me a custom supercharger pulley which is going to get our boost into a much safer level jonno has whipped up this design on his screen and then using a blank piece of metal the design is entered into a CNC machine which is then going to nibble out my perfect new supercharger pulley in just a few minutes and starting with this blank the machine has spat out a perfect pulley all ready to install on my mini unlike turbochargers where you've got wastegate you can kind of bleed off and so you've got adjustment of how much boost pressure you're running with superchargers you can't do that so you have to kind of decide how much boost you're going to be running and that's based on the physicalities of the size of your pulley now this here was the pulley that came with the kit which was made over in the UK ah it's running too much boost which means we need a bigger pulley now luckily we're down here with our mate John Oh from GFB hello John okay mate tell me what you've done here and how we're going to fix this mini we've obviously worked out that the diameter of this pulley is too small creating too much boost so what we've done we've calculated based on what boost this was creating for you guys we were running that 15 psi all right so base this pulley on 15 clear ties we have made a range of different sized pulleys which are larger which should give you an adjustment between 8 and 10 psi there's a bit of a misconception that double the size of the pulley will give you half the amount of food it's not that's not relative that way it's not actually right because what happens you've got to base it above absolute zero pressure and so what happens is this might be making 15 psi but that's really approximately 30 psi of absolute pressure so you use that as your benchmark use that as your benchmark and then we've got to base it on that so if that is your 30 psi of absolute pressure we have to basically use ratio in a certain ratio formula to create what we wanted to achieve which as you said was around 10 psi so all we've got to do now is actually see if this fits with our current belt system if we need more belt we can't buy that in Australia so we're screwed or we try to adjust the factory tensioner and see if we've got enough adjustment to fit this with the con felt that we have it you can see the size of the original pulley on top compared to the larger ones that we've made our next step is to loosen off the factory tensioner and hope that we've got enough adjustment so that we don't need to buy another belt because the size we need is impossible to get our new pulley is a perfect fit and our build is on with ample adjustments still available this is freaking amazing the grill goes back on and now it's time to head back to haltech so that we can fix our fuelling issues the legends from arrow clove just dropped us off a new fuel pump now we're not specifically changing the fuel pump so that we can get more fuel even though that may be something that we need it's more just about reliability we're not sure the conditions the one that is in there so we're going to put this in which means fuel tank out fuel out put this in and then we can run the car again and then we're going to make sure that there's enough pressure to get through that rig and give us some mad choo-choo haleh's so that's like that's a very similar style to what you've seen cars everywhere right most cars have a pump that's very similar to that these days and so we're going to pull out our fuel tank and we're going to drop that in make it fit yep we should be able to put like the you know the filter on there and everything in jammer the liner type run some power to it yep said it happy days yeah well obviously we're doing this because after a little bit of time yesterday we found that we were running out of fuel delivery so we want to make sure that we're not going to do any damage to the motor and make sure that we're keeping the feel up to it so we don't know the condition of the pump that's in the in the tank now so let's just replace it with a good quality pump yeah because it's also it's brand new it's parents have a ten years old something like that yeah and also the fact that 85 needs more fuel volume it does so we're going to pump away more feel up to it so might as well get something that's a bit of an upgrade yep and um yeah yeah it's safety but yeah it's an upgrade at the same time so it also means as well we're typing some good points that we know what's in there because at the moment that's just a total unknown and so far we've been able to have control over our super charging how we're feeling how we're tuning and that's like one area that we just is a complete like black hole isn't it get pumped get pump get pump time to pull out the fuel tank and throw in our mad new fuel pump faster we try Oh the fuel pump has been replaced and luckily we were able to do it without having to drain the tank our new fuel pump and fuel pressure regulator have been installed so now we're ready for a couple of power runs we're inspecting the spark plugs and making an adjustment to the fuel pressure regulator and now we're all set for our final power run there is applause from inside the car and a very happy miles I'd tell you how much power it may but I have no idea what I do know is that there are a lot of smiling faces and ate a lot of cheering going on in the workshop mum I'm late on me all I'm gonna say is it got a similar power outputs on what the blue turd Hey and that felt fast same size engine yes and it was a lot heavier like it with 200 kilos heavier so what's the number Martin what's our decrease or increase in power as a percentage I think you're around 54% power increase well you had 54% oh yeah which is that's forced induction and ethanol so awesome that's huge yeah because if you had like a zombie arriving you put in like a boost controller front mount exhaust you wouldn't get that big of a change well it's like it's going from 200 to 300 kilowatts that's huge yeah awesome and that in a little car that weighs around 600 kilos yeah that's awesome thanks so much for following us on this series of course thank you two miles aka go straight up from am Auto Services thank you to a he's going there he's gonna get all the way back there thank you there it is start turning port back there thank you of course for following this mad series um I love it we're going to get it down and um maybe only the ticket for honest maybe should do a video take it for a drive so I'll do that with people all right let's do that next video driving the mini for the first time thank you very much for watching of course you can follow us on the face of Falls facebook.com forward slash Mighty Car Mods see you next time mini madness how good is it\n"