A friend who owns Rennline.com asked if he could use my 2006 R53 for a photoshoot - of course!

Before
Prior he came over to take some measurements and showed me that my stock R53 pedals are basically ALL rubber caps with a little stainless cover, they just pull off the pedals. Try it, go down and pull one off, you'll be amazed at the BMW/MINI rubber engineering. Anything I can do to get my old '72 911 Carrera RS replica pedal feel, the better, drill away! Now I understand the vagueness of stock R53 feeling shifting and pedals, of course some of it has to do with the cable shifter too.

Install
Sorry for the product plug, but it's not that often you get asked to have your ride in a photoshoot! Ok, so it's where all the dirt ends up and ONLY my pedals, but still I'm excited, on with the photos... My brother was out from Lake Tahoe over the 4th holiday and just happened to also bring his camera, some of the install outtakes from the shoot.

- The gas pedal just pops off the plastic e-throttle extension just like a Porsche 996. Requires a pair of vise grips to re-install.

- If you look closely, in the below photo the stock rubber brake pedal cover is off and on the floor mat upside down. The phillips and open end wrench are pointing to it - it's a big rubber boot!

- The dead pedal just mounts over the existing stock one, pretty simple.



Ouch! that hurts...
- He had to use a special sized bit for the gas pedal as it's stainless steel. I'm sure it will be noted in the instructions. There wasn't much room down there either. And in his experience of fitting some BMW race pedals, noted that all BMW clutch pedals are kind of shifted down from the brake pedal, so they won't line up perfectly when installed.


After
Amazing difference. Solid brake feel, shifting has improved, heel & toe is effortless in street driving. I might take the pedal extensions off and try this for the week too. I cringed at having him drill the holes, but the first moment operating my R53 in the seat confirmed it was worth it. Very nice product, I feel even more connected now









And the photo that was used...
http://www.rennline.com/prodinfo.asp...=P71%2E60%2E97
(note: Rennline is known extremely well in the Porsche racing track industry and distributed through Automotion Performance Products as well)

 

Look pretty good, how is shoe traction on them?

 

That set is a little pricey at $200 but it is badass! If I ever go to get pedals (which I probably will at some point), I very well may end up with those.

 

Pedal feel and shoe traction is much better. There is more pedal surface area, pedals are more solid AND the rubber buttons are replaceble.

 

Nice looking setup!

 

Nice Thompson... Pedals are on my list of things that need to be upgraded on the track beast. So far, I've only once had a pedal cover slip off while on the track. But, it sucks when it happens.

 

While pedals like this look great, the biggest difference IMHO is FEEL... the OEM pedal covers (especially on the brake) are "squishy"... replacing them with any alloy race-style cover makes a braking modulation improvement you can feel immediately. Or at least I could.

These look GREAT in your car, BTW - love the pedal extensions on the accelerator.

 

Dont the little red peices get caught on your foot when braking and push the accel. I guess i would think so, but i am guessing they dont! Nice looking pedals!

 

A right angle drill makes a world of difference when you are trying to do this part!

 

^ +1

And FWIW, removing the knee bolster doesn't help much... the framing that holds the bottom of the bolster will still be in the way.

Drilling those top holes is a *****....

 

J, Cruise over and test them out! The clutch and brake FEEL soo much better.

 

I'll have to bring the brown MINI over some time so you can scope it out now that it's driving again.

 

Somewhere I thought I read it's a PITA to pull off the gas pedal. Is there any truth to this? Someone had all kinda of fun trying to yank it off, I thought. And, how long did install take? I'm assuming the gas pedal is the hard part with the others just being drill holes and screw in place.

 

lvoe those rennline pedals, any chance they would give a nam discount? :D