What Happens When You Put a Type R Engine in a Classic Mini? Pure Fun!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- This classic Mini Cooper is powered by a B16 Honda Civic Type R 1.6L 4 cylinder! This little car is such a blast to rip through the canyons and thats exactly what we did, it also features bigger brakes and wheels with carbon fiber flares, so sit back and enjoy the ride...
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I was a Mini guy back in the day and for over 40years. I had them all. I ended with a Turbo Mini 850 with a fiully worked, ported and heavily modified racing street sleeper with about as much power as this thing. I even had the same Webasto Sunroof! But I think this is waaaay better. That Honda engine would have been blasphemy back in the day. But this has made it really fun again. Hats off to the creator designer and engineers that built it....and thanks AUTOPIA for throwing this up on InnerTube.
This Mini Cooper proves that you don't need high horsepower to have fun!! It's all about power to weight ratio!
110%. As well as the ability to pull some g's in the corners. 60mph feels like 150.
Yes!
Miata will also show you that
To much hp aint fun on the street to me anyway.
When a machine hits every mark perfectly....I can't care if it's only got 200 HP , it's in the execution.... chef's kiss
You have to love a Mini, even with a Honda engine in it.
Original 850cc Mini in 1959 made 34bhp .. lol
In 1964 when Paddy Hopkirk won the Monte Carlo Rally, he had 76bhp! ( Beat the Falcon Sprint on index of performance. )
Power to weight ratio for the win!!
ESPECIALLY with a 200hp Honda engine in it.
I hated my Cooper S, my knuckles are only just recovering from working on it 40 years ago. Now a 998cc Hillman Imp is real fun and still beats even the 1275 S on classic events
That is Strange what is it a typer or a si engine make up your mind. There not the some thing.😅
@@landenbely78
You are right. 7th and 8th gen civic type r standard had 200 hp out of a 2 litre in europe.
But i think the US only got the SI.
They dont know any better :)
The great part of driving a Mini is being so small you can use all the lane like a race track, hitting apex’s and shortening the corners is a blast!! Great build
Agreed! Back in the 80s I had a Fiat X1/9. Slow on the straights but you couldn’t catch me in the curves! A single lane feels like 2 in these small cars.
Also, you can drive the absolute SHIT out of it and you won't spend much money on consumables at all lol.
Power to weight ratio does not discriminate 🤙🏼✔️
Takes me back to ripping through the backroads in my Datsun 510. Nothing like a light car with 180 HP and grippy tires
"Add lightness" - said Colin Chapman. You get improved acceleration, improved handling AND improved breaking. Simply adding HP can't do all that.
My 2006 Mini Cooper S (gen. 1 "new" Mini) is not NEARLY as tiny as this car. Put an original Mini beside my "new" Mini and my car looks huge! (Yet, next to "BMW Minis" my car looks tiny!)
I built my car to 210 HP. It weighs 2600 lbs. I can only IMAGINE how much fun this old-timer must be with it's much better power-to-weight ratio.
Awesome car Sep. Well done!
Very true - but if you could put that first 'new' Mini (R50) next to the current Mini Countryman (F55?)... It's not just far bigger again, in every dimension, than the 2001 variety - it's taller, wider and heavier than even my Subaru Outback! 🤯
I cannot get enough of the sound of that engine and exhaust! Smiles per hour!!! Thanks
Minis 'are' gokarts, they did well in rallying during the 60's, this Brit approves of this fun build. Fun is where it's at. 🙂
Go-kart-esque cars are my favorite. Lotus Elises from the 2005-ish era fit that criteria as well.
Edit: Bang for the buck, and you don't need to be going insane speeds to feel the rush.
They also won Bathurst race in the early 60s
They were nicknamed the flying brick
In Aus 🇦🇺
@@TheTruckdriver999 BMW Minis are noewhere close in spirit.
@@timothydraper3687 Got that right!
@@TheTruckdriver999 first 9 places in 1966 were minis. Winning car driven by Bob Holden
It doesn't matter... cool is cool!
That thing is definitely cool.
I LOVE the styling of the older Mini's, and this one is just off the charts in both appearance and performance. SO NICE!
Doesn't matter what car you put a B series in, it's always going to sound like a Honda. I LOVE IT ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️
Lol well it is a honda motor...
Something different, i like it
Perfectly built Mini's heart transplant ! 😀
Australia 1982 my pop gifted me there 1963 Mini 850cc 33hp ,floor starter slide windows on 10 inch wheels ,THANKYOU for uploading this very very special video ,it means alot to see this, as this is what i wanted to do till i drove a Falcon ute with a 289 a cammed 289 with a 4 speed and 9 inch out back ,after that experience the lil mini got put to the back yard ,time to do what i wanted to do so many years ago ,youve inspired me my friend
Right on Pete!! God bless you, go get started!!! We only limit ourselves!!
I had a 61 Mini that was modded like that but with a 1275 Austin motor with twin SU carbs. Every road became a racetrack. You get accustomed to the size and it doesn't feel that small until you park it next to something else. The trunk lid hinges down and the license plate hangs down so you can drive with big packages. It also fits in parking spaces that others can fit which is great in a city. This car layout of transverse FWD became the standard for small cars later. All hail Sir Alec Issigonis!
OMG MY DREAM CAR. Had so many Minis over the years but that one is the absolute nuts. I smiled and laughed every minute of that video. I love it, I love it, I love it...
Anyone who's British and over 45 has probably had an original' Mini at some point in their life. My first two cars were tuned Minis and I think they literally saved my life with their amazing handling as a lunatic new 17 year old driver back in the late 80s. Mine were constantly trying to turn back into iron oxide but you have the climate there to stop that. Lovely car.
If you watch any of the Goodwood classic races on TH-cam, you often see a nip and tuck race between a six litre Ford Falcon and a 998cc mini, snapping at its heels. The Falcon pulls away on the straights and the mini catches up through the bends, its amazing racing to watch. This years racing is actually taking place this weekend so there will be lost of classic racing to watch live.
This Vid Makes me want my first car back now (1974 Leyland Mini 1275cc with Cooper S running gear,) but now I'd retromod it with a GR Yaris motor and running gear. Ooooof🎉❤
Punching well above its weight 😎
I had one of these minitec mini’s years ago. Man does this bring back fond memories.
One of the funnest drives I’ve ever experienced.
"Baby not gonna be safe ... " - LOL, my daily with 3 kids to school for years: 1994 Mini Cooper.
💥Just another sucker falling for his wife's bulshit💥
Absolutely love it! Mini: big tick, vtec: big tick; mini with vtec: MASSIVE tick!
But why did you keep slowing down for the corners? 😂😂
Minis like this always puts a smile on ur face. Nice job.
Every Mini I've driven has been a blast. Even the base models, it's like rolling around in a four-seater go-kart, so fun.
Love it when this channel steps away from the muscle cars. It’s always something differnet and interesting👌🏻👌🏻
Even with their tiny 850cc engine minis are truely fantastic fun to drive
Once watched a rear engined Cosworth powered Mini round Goodwood, unbelievable.
WTF!! Wow….totally IMPRESSIVE 🤘🏼
I am a fan of the proto racing scene. Minis are and always will be a car that's fun. Remember the zeemann body kits. And mini convertibles those where the coolest car back then.
I had a '67 Mini Cooper S 1275, new off the showroom floor in '68. A car without equal for grin factor, 110 hp of pure joy. You could drive flat out without risking prison. I wish I had one today...
The1275 Cooper S was rated at 75bhp (SAE) and when installed that fell to around 65bhp. To get 110bhp back in the day would mean tuning it to race spec with split Webers and the like that would be undriveable on the road. My mate and I used to take it in turns Road Rallying, him driving and me navigating in his 1293 Mini that gave an honest 90bhp and vice versa in my Hillman Imp 875/998cc. Without doubt my Imp was quicker as the results showed.
They are still available Brother. "We only limit ourselves". Go get one and start building!!😊
@@jasonmacneil2256 Sadist!
That brings back many memories of my youth - very sweet ride!
It may have been registered, or re-shelled in '70, but it's the series 1 body, they changed in 67/68 to the series 2 with the square tail-lights and different front grill.
We had an early series 2 in the late sixties/early seventies, and a later Series 3 (RIP), with the wind-up windows, after that - it also had a bigger fuel tank, which may be an option for the owner if it's not running the Cooper/S dual tanks.
i would STRONGLY recommend the owner to give some serious contemplation to having a full front cage - the "crumple zone" is basically the passenger compartment, as there is VERY(!) little strength in the front pillars under impacts.
I love everything about this car, it sounds amazing that engine looks so good. I bet it’s such a perfect backroad ripper.
Memories of my '86 CRX Si, similar size, earlier version of the same engine. Downshifting 5th to 4th to become airborne again, chasing a Jag XKE. Had it in Atlanta, Thousand Oaks CA, Colorado Springs (where you got this fine Mini).
After watching Italian job years ago. Mini cooper became a dream car to have fully custom. ❤
That's a great little car! I remember the original Cooper S a friend had in the 70's. One BIG Weber on the front of a 1275cc engine, it was so much fun!
Street legal go kart. I owned a 81 VW Rabbit with about 130hp and it was so much fun to drive. This thing would be a perfect car for everyday enjoyment.
Driving slow cars "fast" is exactly why I love my '72 Z600. It's a blast!
I would have moved before selling a car I put ten years of love into to build, but you couldn't pay me to live in California as it is now.
Great seeing a big displacement guy realise how much fun a VTec is especially in a lightweight vehicle. You just got to learn to keep it in the high revs to get that VTEC. If you watch mini racing in the UK they are so much fun to watch and give for bigger cars so much grief cuz they handle so brilliantly
I get a good chunk of the people that watch this channel are V8 only type of people and i love american V8s just as much as y'all but honda motors are insanely capable. These honda motors are the LS swaps of 4 Cylinders. They make decent power too for how small they are.
PLUS RELIABILITY!!!
I grew up in the muscle car days I’m 71 & I remember minis racing at our small town airport they were so cool , I would ride that with pride ! ! !
What little monster!!! Thanks AutoTopia LA!!! You’ve managed to find another interesting gem
Mini Cooper is such a classic msarvelous car..Great & skilled mechanics.Fast & Furious.pure sdrenalin.
Love it, more content like this please! The high hp half million dollar cars are cool as f**k, but for the normal person, they are unobtainable! A realistic backyard performance build such as this in my humble opinion is way way cooler! Peace.
Got me a 1974 clubman 1 owner(family) and 100% original...including asthmatic engine. the struggle is real...modify or keep OG....TY great video. Too many options :)
You get Hector running 3 Honda Civics with spoon engines 🔥
Grow up
@@Bbc418says the idiot in a Honda Civic....
That exhaust would be dead within 5 minutes on Australian roads haha, sick build.
Mighty Car Mods did this years ago. Epic to see it being done still
I used to have a standard 1.3 mini with 13 inch wheels when I was in my 20s. 52 now. It was great because you could drive it like you were racing without losing your license
Tiny but mighty! It looks at home in that LA backdrop. Uber cool!
Mini's are great. I've owned 3 of them over the years, it's like driving a Go-Cart. The 1978 Mini Special 1100cc that I owned was brilliant fun. It had an air leak on the Exhaust at the front and a large 40-DCOE Weber Side Draft Carb, that stuffed tons of fuel in. If you timed it right, when you let off of the throttle at high revs, you would get an immense fireball out of the tail pipe. It would hit 105 mph.
You NEED a roll cage and seats and harnesses in that!!!
I have seen a few in some bad incidents. Growing up around them i have sen a few crashes in Minis
Love the mini, so cool. I had a 74 Celica with a header, 2" exhaust, offset rims and a 4 speed. It ripped for that time in the early 80's. Then in the 90's I had a 95 Escort GT. Both these cars were so much fun to drive. Nice that you guys showed this car. Nice change to all the mega horse power rides you have shown us all. Thanks Sean to you and the crew.
I really appreciate the diversity of the content. Great change of pace. Please keep throwing these odd balls every once in a while. Great job. 👏
The best Mini ever. The 007 Mini ? Need see this thing in 007
My first ever car was a 70s Mini with the 1100, that machine must be such a blast to carve through the twisties
Growing up, in my 15 to 16 year range we lived in Las Palmas of the Canary Islands. My father had a Mini Cooper S with the 1275 engine. That thing was a blast.
There is a k20 mini MK1 that fly's round the Oxford bypass ring road UK. It's Proper proper mental, you can hear him from miles away must be straight pipe, We sometimes see him when out on our bike rides it gives you goosebumps, it sounds like a really car.
*REALLY CAR*
SPEECH 1OO
As soon as he hits vtec he switches gears... Definitely never owned a Vtec honda/acura. You live in Vtec when you want to have the fun and really enjoy the car. it's like a completely different car in Vtec and out of it. Absolutely sick ride! Make me want my integra back!
Love Classic Mini’s, I’ve driven a bunch and I’m a big dude, so much fun to drive. This is one of their first builds now they have K20/24 versions, J-Series V6 rear engine versions man there’s so many options with these things!
I don't ask why people pick certain vehicles . I get it . This is no where close to anything I would pick but then I also think this is cool as all hell!!
Love this mini and to know that it is so small and fits 4 persons its amazing
Shawn & Sep, thank you, THANK YOU - both of you...!
Shawn, you were so brave with this one in more ways than one...!!
‘Just guessing, but I don’t think even YOU realised JUST how much you were taking your life in your hands (again!) - until it was too late....?!
I’m just amazed you didn’t see red(!) sooner...
All the best from the home of the Mini (& my BMiniW Isetta!) here in UK - Jeff
Shawn....Dood, Lovin the new exciting builds your getting some bangers going now man👌🔥🙏🇨🇦
Back in the early to mid eighties a good friend built a Minu to compete in auto X and Solo 1. It too had 13x7 wheels in it. The owner was 6’6” tall and I’m 6’4” tall. One time we drove up to tech insp for an event and when we got out the people there were shocked into silence. I guess they didn’t think two guys our size would fit 😀
That was such a fun fast little car. Narrow courses felt very wide in a Mini
I love Minis with engine swaps, powerful engine little car is always one of my favourite combos, especially as a Brit.
Freaking awesome video! Lightness is such a revelation given the barges we drive around in.
That is beautiful
Grew up driving these little go karts and they are absolutely awesome little cars
Even with a 1275 cc engine with 90bhp they are mega fun
What a little beast. I love the variety on this channel!!
Had a Ozeile (Italian) Clubman ,in N Z .,in the 80s.Had a 1400cc mini motor, duel Webber's, cam,head work,everything you can do to the motor. Did 147 mph,easy ,very uncomfortable, dangerous and fun.Called the flying brick. Cost me a lot of tickets.
i've seen sep build some incredible cars but this one is my absolute favorite!
I know I am really old, however in the mid sixties I owned a near stock mini 850 -twin SUs and a 2 inch straight exhaust. I frightened hell out my mates round corners. Valves bounced at 86 mph.
The mini bounce, classic memories flooding back, yeha
Had an early Cooper back in the day- they handle like a go-kart, so this must be a hairy little ride! Love it!
Mighty Car Mods have a classic mini with a Honda B16, fascinating to see what was involved to make it work without cutting the front clip end off! They have a full build series on it for those that are interested.
What a jewel of a car!
These are the REAL minis! Older dude a few blocks away had a couple.
THought they were the coolest lil cars ever life sized go cart
Cool build I bet this is a blast to drive anywhere! Just stay away from soccer moms in thier2-3 ton suvs.
Beautiful little car! My first car was an old mini cooper and my god it was fun!
One of my mates mates who used to blow everyone in the twisties in his modern tuned mini cooper s, tried to stay behind my built evo 9 in a canyon. I taught him a life lesson he'll never forget. I did let him catch up after i stopped to clean the wind screen 😉
the best mini i ever seen in my life!!!!!!!
Thats the best vtec mini setup ever seen
I had an old Mini Mayfair and that was slow but fun to drive. This would be a blast.
Don't have much experience around honda vtec engines, but DAMN I never heard a FOUR CYLINDER SOUND this GOOD!!
ck out some late 50s early 60s bristol ace. Great sounding 4 bangers
That thing sounds fantastic. If I owned that, no matter how bad my day was, it would be all I needed ❤
What a rumble sound its crazy.
Back in the early 70’s used to watch the Mini’s scare the corvettes and corbas at the parking lot slaloms. Small and quick in the corners
Hey Shawn, Awesome Just Freaking Awesome. That Mini is a Happy Car because it makes everyone smile. And when you get to see the modifications it just gets your wheels turning. Funny thing is you can hold a conversation without the exhaust drowning you out. I bet you could put a 150hp bottle on that and get about 225hp. Without it doing anything to the internals. Actually I’m jealous of that Fun Machine. I bet if I put a FHP Trooper in there they would just crack up with smiles. Awesome Video Great Build Thanks for Making My Day!!!
Driving is about having FUN, whether on human HP or 4k HP. If you smile you are in the fun zone. Its the reason we love our cars, new or old.
this thing is badass, simple and clean. love it
My mum has owned x 6 Classic mini's.
I had an R53 JCW With 300bhp Supercharged tuned at 1320 St Neots UK.
Mini torque Forum UK.
Mini R53 Project 007, was the fastest mini in the UK on a standard m45 Eaton supercharger 17 percent pulley catcams, 550c injectors Big Valve head just under 300bhp 166mph top speed from a 1.6 tritec engine.
ive been in a b16a2 engine swap classic mini, but a k20 would be savage.
This is sooo cool! Between Minis and VW bugs there is no telling how mush fun was had throughout the years.
Why, Sir...I do believe you've soiled your armour! 😂 I'm building a 1600/510 Datsun running SR20 VCT, non-turbo. This kind of content makes me smile...as does the look of fear on the face of someone accustomed to much larger cars 😁
Good God, that looks like the most fun car in existence.
The power to weight ratio is crazy in that little thing
Bro the sound! What a cool car.
loved this one, total shame the previous owner converted it to left hand drive but awesome engineering on the front end, motor, trans and brakes, i had when i was in my late 20's i had a 77 mini clubman van, had minilite wheels, 1275 gt motor bo0red out to 1340cc ( popular mod) weber carb, extractors and worked head, was good fun
It looks like a fun driving mini. You probably can really feel that VTEC hit!
Not as much with the b16, sadly. If it was a type R, then yes.
It’s more fun driving a slow car fast than a very fast car slow and be frustrated. This proves the theory. Oh and please no Turbo’s, why would anyone even think it, lol. Sweet ride👌🏿
I dont think that thing was slow, them new bmws's need all 5-600 of horses because how heavy they are
10:38 love the printed labels on the carbon fiber dash 😆 This car is a beauty. I checked out the superfast minis website. They only have one for sale currently.