Hello motorers

I want to drop a warm wave to all MINI owners at NAM and would love from you all to welcome me here. Im a proud owner of a r53 british racing green with matching roof color.
Im currently from michigan and I would like to meet MINI owners from here.

Thanks and happy motoring
Yousif

 

You'll get your precious "welcome" when you put some damned pics in the thread!

 

Oh.... and Welcome!

 

What he said!

What he said!

 

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Thanks for the welcome CR&PW&JB and I do apologize for not including an image because I did the registration through my phone and I tried attaching an image from there but it seems the app has a bug. but here is my MINI

 

I'm liking the new Guy! And his MINI!

So.... any mods planned, either performance or aesthetic?

 

ignition coil(since I checked my ignition coil the other day and like most other mini's, terminal 3 was corroded), wires, and spark plugs for now. maybe I will add the 15% reduction pulley as well with them, that way I can just buy a colder plug to go with it. From what I know the 15% pulley is the safest choice to go with.

later, im thinking of putting an intake into the car, but im not really excited about it since the one im thinking to get is the alta, and from what I know the best filteration air filters are the stock filters. so i want to put in an intake to listen to that supercharger wine and add little more power and then I dont want because i dont want dirt to go into the engine.

after that im thinking of putting an alta exhaust. i heard it on other r53s and it sounds very nice when it burbles and gargles, lol.

Right now, I just have 22mm rear sway bar. and just got a set of continentals DWS 215s as recommended from a mini-shop in my town.

 

That 15% reduction pulley provides the most bang for your mod bucks IMO and many other R53 owners.

As you mod, please update the thread... would like to follow you through the process ... especially that pulley. :-)

 

I definitely will, and thanks again for the welcome
by the way, can I ask you where did you get those cool mini signatures? i like to get one for my car.

 

Sure.... just find the thread "what if?" By Cooperation. Use one of the pre-made ones or post your request in his thread for a custom cartoon MINI.

 

Awesome I found it, thanks mate

 

Least I could do after yanking your chain just a bit.

 

car updates..
hi everyone, it's been few months since this thread been updated so I thought today might be a good day to give you some update on what I have done to the car so far...
When I purchased my mini, it seemed that it had rear "red colored" sway bar improperly installed by the previous owner (not really sure what brand it is, but it has 3 settings and is red colored), so my first thing that i did was to get that sway bar installed properly by a mini shop in my town. You might ask, how did I figure out the sway bar was not installed properly, well when I used to drive the car, it used to make rattling noises was coming from the back. So First thing I did to the car is take it to the mini shop specialist and have them properly installed and might as well get an oil change there as well to clear up my conscious, lol. Next on the agenda was to fix the emergency brake cables because the right one was cut. So I installed 2 fresh cables and the handbrake was back to new. Next, I got my car tinted to 37% tint(not too dark, just enough to have somewhat of a privacy and still looks kool). Later, I got fresh ngk sparks installed. I did check terminal 3 on the ignition coil and it like most everyone else, it had corrosion. So I grabbed some different level sand papers and sands that out, back to new now. Since oil change is little pricey, or I guess the labor is pricey. I ended up changing oil my cars oil my self every 2500-3000miles(i know most people change every 10000miles or even 5000 miles,...well to give your car that extra mile, change the oil more often.) Beside the oil changes and the maintenance fixes, I been looking into the shifter wiggle issue in the early mini models, and it seemed normal to most mini owners, fixes could be anywhere from(replacing the bushings(they dont sell bushings seperatly but you have to buy the whole shifter assembly), short shifters didnt cause the problem to go away from most cases) so i thought my i look into all the other shifters discontinued and currently producing and i came across b&m precision sport shifter(short throw shifter) that the company dont produce anymore and based on their description and other nam user inputs on this shifter, it suppose to fix the wiggle issue on the 2002-3 mini models and is little shorter which makes it little harder to shift. in my point of view, i can live with harder to shift shifter but as long as it fixes the wiggling issue, then Im fine. So, today I ordered one from autotoys.com which comes with everything from the bushings, to all the rings and whatever comes with it. and once it arrives, and installed, i will update this thread.
thanks for all the follow ups on this thread. I know i wanted to get a reduction pulley first, but performance of driving dont come from just getting more hp/tq. will see where we will go after that.

 

car update..
so yeah, removed rear seats last week, i made my own sdk and looks good. Finally I installed a D.T pulley + DDMworks intake and yes, the supercharger whine is much increased, i can hear the intake as it sucks air in when i gently gas it and the whine just keeps bigger and bigger as i ride the rpm way up. and oh, the car definitly much quicker and i love my mini even more now. can't wait till i take it out again tomorrow XD

 

MINI is sold last summer, looking for another mini this summer