Kansas City MINI Enthusiasts

I'm setting up a play day at a great local shop to run our cars on the dyno. The fellows who run this shop are extremely experienced with old English cars and carbs. The results from our first Dyno there were incredible. Not every car benefited but those that did made significant gains and really run well now. so grab your car and come play with us....

Friday, Oct 5th

Prather Racing is on the southeast side of Topeka, Ks and there are plenty of places to eat in the area -

Jesse Prather Motorsports
4950 SE Adams
Topeka, KS 66609
785-249-0284

There are a lot of very reasonably priced hotels near the shop and Heartland Park road course is right down the road.

Details are we'll show up at the shop about 8 am and he'll load the first car on the dyno. Each run takes between 20 min to a half hour and as we get closer to the date I'll set up a schedule. Everyone is welcome to hang out at the shop while the other cars are being run on the dyno - I find it fun to see what kinds of results the different cars bring. Right now my plan is to have all the classics run first, there will be time to run some new MINIs in the afternoon.

We'll break for lunch around noon and start back up about 1-ish.

I was hoping there might be an event at the nearby Heartland Park Road course that weekend but it appears not, however it's only a few miles down the road if anyone wants to go see the track - I've done probably 500 laps there over the years!

Right now the following people are going to go, subject to change: So we have 2-3 possible openings left......

Dave Craven Mini
Bruce Kennedy Mini
Don Ipock Mini
Stan Chen Mini
Gordon Fitch Mini
Dan Stoughton Mini
Michael Playle Mini
Deighton Brunson Mini
Seth Weaver Mini
John Styers Jensen Healy

If you have a classic car or a new MINI come and join us!

Cost is very reasonable at $100 a car.

Sign me up. I would like to see the difference in my DYNO run with my new exhaust and LCB.

Excellent, see you there!

I don’t have the money to do a dyno run but I would love to come down and get video of the whole thing if that’s okay. Could turn it into an interesting YouTube episode for my channel.

Zack, I checked with the shop owner and he would prefer not to have the event video'd….sorry. There are a lot of proprietary equipment and customers cars and stuff in the shop.

We have just over 2 weeks, and I still have a couple of spots open. Cost is $100 and it is open to MINIs as well as classic Minis. If you would just like to see what your car is putting out, come join us! Be sure to let me know here on the forum.

Minidave wrote:Zack, I checked with the shop owner and he would prefer not to have the event video'd….sorry. There are a lot of proprietary equipment and customers cars and stuff in the shop.

We have just over 2 weeks, and I still have a couple of spots open. Cost is $100 and it is open to MINIs as well as classic Minis. If you would just like to see what your car is putting out, come join us! Be sure to let me know here on the forum.

Saving up for exhaust and intake upgrades to the Clubman as well as a new windshield for the project car. I’m out. Thanks though.

Can I just come and hang out? Still have my Justa '03 because no one wants to buy a car with 250k miles on it!

Sure George....see you there. You can put your Justa on the dyno too if you want!

I have some much needed medical appointments in the afternoon so would be possible to get the Wee Beast up front? Thanks!!

Yes, no problem

A little over a week to go.....

Weather looks perfect, mid-50's in the morning warming up to high 60's later in the day.

Anyone else want to join? I have just a couple of spots left....

Minidave wrote:A little over a week to go.....

Weather looks perfect, mid-50's in the morning warming up to high 60's later in the day.

Anyone else want to join? I have just a couple of spots left....

Maybe next year. No extra funds right now. Plus I want to have my intake and exhaust work done by then.

Sorry, as of tonight we're full.

9 Minis, 1 Sprite, 1 Jensen Healy and 1 race Sprite.

Going to be a full, fun day!

Great day! Thank you for letting me join in. Bummer that the dyno didn't like my CVT.