Kansas City MINI Enthusiasts

+ 1 Good points, Pete.......... Again, the emphasis here is on having fun, when you come off the track after your first session you will have a smile from ear to ear that won't leave till well after you get home that night! :P Right now we have...... MINIdave Petek dimini JeffWood Minigeof hctiev sl...

For those who may be reading this thread for the first time, a number of your KC MINIac brethern have been taking a monthly run up to the Heatland Park road course to run our cars on the track. This is an excellent, inexpensive way to learn more about driving your car and it's limits, in a safe and ...

Guess I'll start a new thread for the September event........, see if we can recruit some more "victims'

Deal!

I have to admit it was very soon after they opened in the Legends and the line was huge, so maybe they didn't have the kinks worked out yet. We'll give them another try some weekend. Problem is, you keep finding MINI things for us to do on our weekends!

Good question.

We didn't wear any at the last event, it was just too hot.

I tried the CBIP in the Legends, I also thought the food was just OK. Waited an hour to get in and could have gone to the Sonic across the street!

I just bought the harness as well, what do you think of it?

I haven't driven with mine yet, I was thinking I should use it for a few days on my commute as well, just to break it in and get used to it..........but I also wondered if it might not get some looks........

Cool, plan on it then............

I put up another thread with some vid of the new track configuration, check it out............in fact, I'll just put it here as well.....the laps start at about 3 min 20sec into the show............ HPT laps I wonder if Jeff Wood will be back in the states by then, I'd love to have him come up with ...

Well, I checked my calendar, I get back to work after a two week absense on the Monday of that week in Oct. Might be a bit tricky getting off two days later, but maybe I can wrangle a half-day. Weather might be a bit iffy by then, so who knows. But - I made the calendar fit the events, so I'm sticki...

Ouch! the Ebay bid on that Arden motor went to $5400 by the end of the auction - reserve not met!

I had no idea it would be that expensive!

I'm sure MiniDave will write you an excuse note so you can get out of class! Absolutely! But I think his classes start the day after the event, so he should be able to make it. Plus Oasis should have his car situation sorted out by then too (I would hope!) Plus too and also, it should be a bunch co...

Crap...........

I rescheduled for Sept...........

If you absolutely can't make it and you've already registered and paid your track event fees, as long as you give them 24 hrs. notice they'll switch your fee to the next event. (at their discretion, but the guy I spoke to seemed real nice and that they would be flexible on this.) And yes, all the ca...

Don't give up! You can register online, as well as pay, if you have access to your computer you're good to go. Also, I wouldn't give up completely, they were selling admittances at the gate last time - as long as they have spots available - and I spoke to the events manager last week and he said the...

Excellent! Will you plan on meeting us for lunch and caravanning up with us then? I did buy my belts from Soloracer.............I called them and spoke to John, he's the one who told me "that's the way they come" It's not that big of a deal to me, I just thought the black/grey lettering wo...

My Schroth belts came in yesterday, I ordered black with grey lettering but got black with bright yellow! Not exactly a good match for my blue car, but I doubt I can get another one here and installed in time for the event wed. Gonna call and see tho....... Edit: found out the "Quik Fit' black ...

Incidentally, I think it was on the first page of the listings, if you want to try for yourself later.......he wanted $14K IIRC............ OK, links are working now, check it out Here I think if I wanted a Mini classic that was really fast, like dimini is doing, I might buy this green one and drop ...

Mini mania's site seems to be down right now, I can get to the home page but nothing else. I'll try to post the link later.

When you get to the track to check in they'll have a packet waiting for you in your name, there's a release form in there to sign, other than that - you're good to go - at least that's how it worked for me last time. BTW, they still have a few spots open for this event - get your buddies to sign up ...

I've never faxed in anything, just filled out the forms online and paid 'em with my credit card..................

OK, tentative plan is to meet at the Bob Evans across from the Legends just down the street from Cabella's at 1:00 pm for lunch, then hit the hiway about 2 pm and head for the track. There is a gas station on hiway 75 just a mile or so before the track for those who want to top up and buy some drink...

All righty then, looks like we've got 6 MINIacs going to the track so far, that's great. I can assure you it is money and time well spent, you will have a blast! Last time we all met up at the Cabella's parking lot, had some lunch then caravaned up to the track, does that sound do-able again? We als...

dimini, look what just popped up for sale over at Mini Mania........

Also 95th street west from 435 (Prairie Star Parkway?) one roundabout after another..........