Who Will Win? DEAD Clutch on Mini R53 JCW vs. Me / Nürburgring 

Only with Misha.

Took it a bit further than that 😏

@@chriskingston4810 new gearbox and fully forged engine fitted. Including some other bits and bobs, like a coolerworkx and lighter flywheel + clutchpack

These are my mods just for the engine part at least fully gutted atm Engine • 15% Helix Pulley • RMW Big Valve Head • RMW Dominator Cam • RMW Shorty Header • MINI GP Intercooler • Milltek Resonated Catback Exhaust system. • Ksm 650cc Injectors • RMW Tuned • Dimsport MyGenius • DeatschWerks Uprated Fuel Pump • DDM Air Intake box with Mishmoto cold air intake filter •Upgraded Ignition coil pack by BenchMark racing products + Upgraded high heat leads by BenchMark Co. • DDM GP Intercooler Diverter • NGK Iridium IX Spark Plugs +2 steps/ranges Colder • VibraTechnics Upper Engine Mount • VibraTechnics Lower Engine Mount • PowerFlex Lower Engine Mount Bushings • RMW Aluminum Coolant Expansion Tank • Forge Aluminum Power Steering Tank • Aquamist HFS4 Methenol Injection (Installed, but not hooked up) •Mini Cooper Gp1 style bigger top mount intercooler These are mods ATM

Forgot to add sprintex supercharger as well Your mini sounds fun too!

@@Modmaann Thanks man. I hope your car is soon fixed with a working clutch. A whole nürburgring round with your MINI would be very interesting for me. Awesome, that you still driving the "old" MINI with the supercharger. - My whole cylinder head is from NG-Motorsports in Germany - catcam camshaft - I also have some heat protection products from M7-Speed under the hood installed - chassis stabilizers from the MINI Cabrio (R52) and from M7 Speed - upgraded coupling bars from Meyhle - Motec MCR2 Ultralight wheels with titan wheel bolts - JCW brake on the front - yellow EBC-brake pads with EBC brake discs - steel braided brake lines - lite blox battery - software optimized on the dyno from Dynamic Automotive in Germany (I have a modificated GP-software) - rear seats removed and titan strunt installed (not a full cage) - M7-Speed front splitter (material: Tegris) - M7-Speed canards on the front (material: carbon) - M7-Speed strut bar - Forge cooling water tank .... Soon I must install my oil catch can in carbon from M7 Speed. It isn't installed yet. And I need better seats on the front. How is your experience with the sparco seats? My MINI don't have much torque (258 newtonmeters at about 6000 rpm). And 257 hp at about 7700 rpm. Thanks. Best wishes Chris

Thinking the same . Like bro stop fucking my gear box haha

if you want a free lap with misha you have to take the lack of mechanical sympathy with it

Easily? To change the clutch its not easy and not cheap.

@Snake2303 replacing a clutch slave cylinder is a 1 hour job including the right bleeding procedure. Which clearly the problem here.

@@spin1275gt will need to take the whole lot out for a r53 to access and change the clutch.

😂😂

Misha my guy keep on mind for next time, you can change gears without clutch if you rev match.

Just rev up and down till it grinds itself in ;) Edit: What I said sounds awfully dirty, not intentional lol.

Yeah I was cringing at him trying to jam it in with the engine at idle

@@imnota yeah I think I cringed more than the owner 😅. I'm not knocking Misha btw he is a fantastic driver. In a car you don't know on a track under some pressure, he stayed very very calm 👌 when it happened to me on holiday with 3 kids in the back, luggage, roofbox and panicking wife I got home. If I had to stop I had to turn the car off and pull away with the starter motor 😅. Pulled the gearbox the following weekend and the clutch fork had snapped in 2 🤣. 190,000 mile Bora 4motion 👌 great car and it was the original clutch

The front bumpers catch on bumps really easy.

I have one as well and I think his bonnet needs adjusting.

Hé normally has a GP bumper up front.

Not only on your channel🤣

@@mgcharoudin I'm sure you addressed this in another video recently 😂

👍For the supercharger whine too!

Love it

Yes, I know, but I'd rather not experiment too much on a live racetrack in car that's not mine (paradox I know)

@@mgcharoudin not really a paradox, it was the safe thing to do, but I must admit I was afraid you wouldn’t have enough momentum to get to the exit safely.

@@mgcharoudin I agree that it was the right choice to exit and stop, especially since if you missed this exit you were forced to continue for a while, however it would've prevented trying to jam it in gear and grinding it 10 times while trying to reach the exit

It was painful listen gears grinding! I would think anybody that’s into cars and racing and knows how to drive manual gearbox would know how to switch into gears when losing clutch!

To Misha’s discharge he was on the track with a car he drove for the first time, and people coming potentially at a very fast pace behind. It’s easy to comment from our side when we are not stressed. My very first comment was more as a reminder for future potential issues, i wasn’t trying to discard Misha’s abilities. When I had that issue myself I was told how to do it by a friend and practiced then on an healthy car. When my clutch cable snapped I knew what to do because I had the « training ». I had to do it again on a lada Niva a few years later when the hydraulic clutch command leaked. (I didn’t even know that it was hydraulic on a Niva then.). Misha could have chosen to not publish this video but he did, and I thank him for this. Let’s hope he can do the lap again when the car is repaired because it’s an interesting car to lap imho.

Yes haha

How the fuck is trying to force a gearbox into gear with a dead clutch professional? Professional at chipping gears possibly, and adult hissyfits over broken 20 year old cars lmao

Totally agree why take a half broken car to the ring you could see at the start of lap it had a clutch issue

Not his car to be doing that to, maybe if he couldn't get off so early he might've had to do that, or stop and start the car in 3rd gear off the starter motor or bump start.

@@Gobbbbb you dont learn on a car like this. STIL if you already know it is not a problem to get home. you can shift up or down, stil down is 10 times harder then up ;) and you do NOT use force. no grinding and no were on the box. normally you can shift with one finger. It do require real good understanding of rpm and where the gearbox is at speed etc. its as harder as driving a sliding gear box and duble clutching.

@@grapsorz Well no I agree with you there lol, I've had a clutch cable snap on a motorcycle before 2 times and always got home, that said it's much easier on a bike due to the gearbox being a sequential lol, however the gear ratios between 1st and 2nd gear made it quite tricky. With Misha, I think he was just to in the moment to think about it logically, I know I wouldn't be thinking straight if I was on a live racetrack with a dead clutch / cylinder.

@@Gobbbbb the bikes i have driven is dog internal so clutch is not needed ;) i have driven so many bikes sit a competition box that i must think hard to use the clutch on a bike lol ;) i have had to come and drive other ppl's car home when a wire snap etc. the best box i drove was a VW t3 buss. that was super good when it came to no clutch shifting. you start it is 1 and then drive off. every time you have to stop you need to restart the car stil you can drive normally until then.

@@grapsorz Yup, pretty much all bikes are dog boxes. I only use the clutch for 1st-2nd just because the gearing is far too long between gears, the rest are super easy, it's the one thing I hate about my bike, the rpms drop too low and fall out of the power. I haven't driven cars much at all to be honest, but I found the most forgiving was a VW Passat 1.9TDi, easiest car I've ever driven, that car will probably outlive me :D

Yes, you can easily tell when the clutch is on the way out. Why go on the Nürburgring with a worn out clutch? Also, 230HP but no LSD? Best thing is to install a (e.g. Quaife) LSD when you need to replace the clutch and dual mass flywheel. It's a huge job though ... so factor that in when buying an R53.

Nope not the same box

Transmission is fairly bulletproof, it's the stock clutch that's the issue.

Exactly what I was thinking. I respect the owner regardless but you could tell from the first gear change that the car wasn't fit for the ring. As you say there's so many serious R53s out there whose owners would gladly let Misha do a lap.

Bro, the situation is a lot different when he's on a live racetrack on a beautiful day so it's going to be busy, and you sitting at home behind a computer screen. Also, it's the first time he's ever driven the car, how the fuck is he meant to know the feeling of RPM to gear ratio? That comes with time of ownership of a car. He did the most professional thing and got off the track safely, who gives a fuck about wear to the gears and synchros when you're in a dangerous situation.

@@Gobbbbb hmmm actually the most professional thing would be to remove the car from track AND stop trying to bang it into gear without giving the engine rpm... I've commented this before he seems to have no regard for other people vehicles and you can see the owner face as he tries to BANG THE GEARBOX AGAIN AND AGAIN...

@@Gobbbbb he was supposed to know how to shift in a car without a clutch anyways, not just strongly banging the gearbox…, that’s a thing that you either know or don’t know nothing between.