Sometime something had to give really once and Whitsun was it then so far, because the clutch thrust bearing disassembled itself into his components.

The Mini was brought from the Nürburgring to my home town by the friendly ADAC free of charge and it came off directly onto the lifting platform.

After short consideration there was for me only a solution.

Build out the Engine from that!

Saidly done and after 3 hours the engine stood before the Mini.

An original clutch set was bought from a friendly BMW dealer, mounts and after further 5 hours the engine was fit in again









Onto the next 700 rounds...

Regards

Rainer

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That's 8-hours and a lot of Eros later!

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Were you not tempted to fit some uprated parts while you were in there ? Having said that, the abuse the stock parts have taken isnt bad...

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Back in the fold... but being tempted out again...

I had considered shortly incorporating a Valeo clutch Kit.

But I had no problems with the originally BMW clutch and it works for 15.000 km on the Ring without any problems.

The clutch plate and the two mass flywheel were not damaged or worn-out.

Only the clutch thrust bearing gets overheated and attacked the contact surface of the automat.

The price for the original BMW clutch set was only 135 Euros including VAT and my working time was free of charge...

VALEO clutch Kit with one mass flywheel:

Valeo - 4kkit

http://www.4kkit.de./downloads/Valeo...0Q4%202010.pdf

Regards

Rainer

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hmm up rated clutch would be a good upgrade but like you said the BMW clutch still holds only the thrust bearing gave up the gost!

if it was me id go for the velo then any mods further down the line to the engine wont requre uprating at a later date!

id be going to a exedy on the gp in the future

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