What did you do to your mini today?
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OK, so it was really yesterday, but installed (ok, helped install--some guys from the local MINI club came over and we all worked on it) front upper strut mounts from Ireland Engineering to replace the originals with their dry-rotted and cracking bushings. The IE mounts look a lot beefier than the stock units.
MUCH nicer ride now.
The front end feels a lot more solid. Haven't gone for a good twisty run yet, so I can't yet comment on the change in handling the extra negative camber provides.
C ya,
Dutch
MUCH nicer ride now.
The front end feels a lot more solid. Haven't gone for a good twisty run yet, so I can't yet comment on the change in handling the extra negative camber provides.
C ya,
Dutch
#2207
HID Low Beam Conversion
Installed an 8000K H7 HID low beam conversion in my '02 MCS. Great lighting upgrade, easy to install other than finding a good place to install the ballasts. There have been discussions on some of the threads about proper cutoff when switching to HID's. I found the cutoff's to be very sharp with the HID's with the stock housings, so there shouldn't be an issue with blinding on coming drivers.
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Tossed dealer plates, installed the official ones, took the time to add my own kayaking plate frames and three grille badges (two flanking rear plate, one on the grill). The Me-ification continues...
The badges were from GoBadges, and I gotta shout out that they tossed in a shamrock "fast and lucky" badge for free in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Thoughtful!
The badges were from GoBadges, and I gotta shout out that they tossed in a shamrock "fast and lucky" badge for free in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Thoughtful!
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Tossed dealer plates, installed the official ones, took the time to add my own kayaking plate frames and three grille badges (two flanking rear plate, one on the grill). The Me-ification continues...
The badges were from GoBadges, and I gotta shout out that they tossed in a shamrock "fast and lucky" badge for free in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Thoughtful!
The badges were from GoBadges, and I gotta shout out that they tossed in a shamrock "fast and lucky" badge for free in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Thoughtful!
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Installed new 15% Craven pulley, colder plugs, new OEM wires, one ball mod, K & N CAI, new Sumitomo tires on ASA AR3 wheels, painted rotors red, and finally....had it dynotuned. Final numbers were 211 hp at 7k rpm....that is all the stock injectors could dish out!
Last edited by 211poker; 03-17-2011 at 10:07 PM.
#2225
You have been really busy today! All I managed to do was install my helix SSK