PERFORMANCE TUNING EVOLUTION
Looking back to when I was a ‘yoof’ I can’t understand how I managed to achieve so much in such a short space of time. And that’s any time you may want to consider. An hour, a day, a week… Time must have stood still at certain points to make what I managed to do possible. Or so my now mind and body believe.
It’s a full 24.5 years since I did my first article for Mini Magazine, having been persuaded away from the rival publication by the silver-tongued Martin Vincent. And it’s now over four years since I stood back from regular magazine contributions. All of which I look back at with astonishment in terms of the speed with which the time has past. And now Mini Magazine is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and I have been coerced back in to contributing by the equally silver-tongued Gerard Hughes. Though it didn’t take much coercing, Gerard and I have worked together before in these very pages in a previous tour of duty and always got along famously. This is a one night stand, mind you.
The editor thought it would be interesting to cast back across the past nine years since Mini Mag hit it’s 200th edition, in which I reviewed how tuning the Mini engine – and indeed the introduction of alternative power-plants – had changed since our favourite cars’ inception. Though nine years is a relatively short passage of time compared to the 53 of the previous review, the time seems to have been mainly fine-honing what was already being used. With one interesting exception.
SMALL BORE V LARGE BORE - NORMALLY ASPIRATED.
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