The Official Mad-Modder Club

[CR&PW&JB]

Are you MAD about MODDING ?? Are you MAD enough to join the club ?

Membership requirements: At least 15 post-delivery mods to your MINI...sorry, but your cool ordered options don't count.

List your mods in this thread and proudly become a member of The Mad-Modder Club !!

The person with the most mods becomes the Most Mad Modder and club President.

My List of Mods, CR:

Megan Racing Cat-Back Exhaust
WMW/DDM Cold Air Intake
Jackson Racing Red Spark Plug Wires
Hawk Ceramic Brake Pads
Clearbra
M7 Strut Plates
Painted Brake Calipers
Boot Stripes
Checkered Eyes
Checkered Rearview Mirror
Checkered Door Sill Plates
Checkered Wheel Center Caps
Checkered Warning Label Covers
Checkered valve stem caps
Checkered Roof
Custom Whalen Shift Knob
Custom Leather Shift Boot
Custom Leather E-Brake Boot
Chrome Toggle Switch Dividers
Chrome Speaker Surrounds
Chrome Door Pull Surrounds
Chrome Mirror Control Surround
Bright White LED dome light
Boot Mat
Glove Box Organizer
Cocomats
"Actual Size" sticker x 2
"Cooper" badge on dash
Chrome w/Checkers lic plate frames
Grille Badges
Tint, 20% all around



PW

Megan Racing Cat-Back Exhaust
WMW/DDM Cold Air Intake
Custom shift boot
Custom e-brake boot
MINI Wings valve stem caps
Love Bug Decal on boot and sunroof
Tint, 20% all around
Custom wheel center caps
Custom warning label covers

JB

Carbon Fiber Bonnet Scoop
Carbon Fiber Boot Handle
UJ Cabrio Headrest Bling
UJ Wheel Center Caps
UJ Warning Label Covers
UJ Valve Stem Caps
UJ Eyes
Cocomats, black with red dots
Additional Interior Chrome
Custom Shift and E-Brake Boots
Custom bonnet stripes, white with red pins
Custom boot stripes that match those bonnet stripes
Chili Red Mirror Caps
Custom Door Sill Plates
Driving Lights
Painted Brake Calipers, Red, of course
Craven Strut Tower Reinforcement Plates

[Loony2N]

Can I count each license plate screw and each valve stem cover as a mod? How about floor mats, counting as either 1 or 5 mods? Anyway, I don't think I have 15 mods, though I haven't counted. I'm not sure I am in a hurry to join this club.....

[Kentiki]

• Air horns
• Rally/fog lights
• Intake mod--cone open element filter
• Silver grill--intercooler scoop
• Silver grill--radiator
• Silver grill--2 rear bumper inserts
• 4th brake light
• Painted and installed towhook
• Installed Union Jack roof
• Leather shift boot
• Leather e-brake boot
• Checker flag valve stem caps
• Orange (front) calipers (re-done—see #20)
• Intake mod--opened up back wall for cowl vent air access
• Jackson Racing plug wires
• Chrome bolt covers-strut towers
• Chrome slant exhaust tips
• Leather door grips
• Sirius radio (Moved from downtube to tach)
• Repainted calipers blue and rotors black
• Oil catch can
• Checkers for SC left side-black and white
• Battery shut-off switch with fuse
• Aux input for Sirius
• Checker headlight covers
• Painted airhorn compressor, relocated it so connection to horns is straight and shorter. Used zipties on all connections.
• Painted IC diverter red
• Chrome S on IC diverter
• Fire extinguisher--installed, in boot.
• Sealed off CAI.
• VGS mod (7-12-06)
• Engine torque dampener
• Tire lettering--red
• Engine start button
• Relocated fog lights wiring thru firewall/relocated toggle switch by mirror adjuster.
• Opened up closed areas on either side of grill.
• Alta 15% SC pulley
• Removed catch can--stripped paint and reinstalled.
• Removed VGS mod-9-17-06.
• Removed checker headlight covers—9-24-06.
• Reinstalled amber fog lights with new lower brackets.
• Little Mini antenna topper-RIP 12-27-06
• Larger intake filter with custom CAI box-insulated box with heatshield.
• Boost gauge
• Leather/chrome e-brake handle replacement
• Leather Wheelskins steering wheel cover
• Detail on MINI wings front and back black stripes in recessed areas
• One-ball exhaust
• Repainted IC Diverter-blue to match UJ
• Replaced intake with stock box and foam filter.
• Update: Painted coil and coolant overflow tank to match Diverter.
• IC water sprayer
• OBX header
• 3rd brake light flasher

[BlimeyCabrio]

Do I REALLY have to list them? Can't I just link to them?

OK - how about cut & paste...

Is this 15? I don't know - I can't count anymore. What do all those numbers mean on my credit card statement?

Depending on how you count, there's somewhere between 60 and 80 here I think...

With all due respect - I think you need at LEAST 50 (maybe 100) to be a "mad modder"...

Union Jacks:
Custom painted bumper grille; grille badge; Eyes; side and dash enamel badges; license frame; headrest decals; wheel center caps; valve caps; custom “Blimey” sill plates; custom red/white/blue stripes; “Blimey” decal in scoop under bonnet; nodding bulldog on dash; window flags


Performance / Safety Mods:
15% CravenSpeed/GrassRoots Garage pulley; One-Ball Exhaust; NGK “JCW” Plugs; Dinan CAI with enlarged cowl grommet; Alta blue silicon intake hose; MTH ECU Tuner File; M7 Under Strut System (USS); H-Sport 19mm Rear Swaybar; M7 Strut Tower Plates; Hawk Ceramic Brake Pads; GoMiniGo third brake light flasher; rear fog brake light mod; Multivex mirrors; Dark Blue Wheelskin; Valentine One (hardwired with remote audio control and custom remote display and felt wrap on main unit); Safecraft Halon fire extinguisher w/Safecraft Billet Clamp & Brey-Krause seat mount; Hella 2500 driving lights; 65w Osram high-beam bulbs


Cosmetic Mods:
Smoked Side Markers; silver front turn bulbs; LED interior lighting; LED front parking lights; LED boot lights; LED rear footwell lights; Xenon-match fog lamps; Xpel clearbra, door edges, mirror caps, side stone guards, light guards, boot edge; MINI Confidential medallion; strut tower caps; blue ignition wires; Lucas decal on fusebox; British Leyland badge on boot; MINI wings coverup decals on visors; Alta stubby antenna; “Blimey” vanity plate; Grille badge holder; G2 red caliper paint


Convenience Mods & Accessories:
MiniFini cupholders; custom Nuvi GPS mount; ProClip phone mount; newministuff GPS audio interface and extra power sockets; Euro Parcel Shelf; Black w/Blue Dot Coco mats; Cabrio wind deflector; Coverking custom cover; MiniDoMore receiver hitch and cargo carrier; MCAW auto window up module; GoMiniGo glovebox tidy; Aux input ground loop isolator; second ashtray/coin cup; rear LED dome light


Pending mods:
SS brake lines, bronze guide bushings, race fluid; Redline leather boots (dark blue/orange thread); Whalen UJ knob; Outmotoring UJ gauge faces; exhaust tips

[MINIFVR]

wow. thats a lot of stuff!

[CR&PW&JB]

Originally Posted by LynnEl

Can I count each license plate screw and each valve stem cover as a mod? How about floor mats, counting as either 1 or 5 mods? Anyway, I don't think I have 15 mods, though I haven't counted. I'm not sure I am in a hurry to join this club.....

RE: License plate screws and Valve stem covers: No, each count as one mod. Thanks for the good question though.

No need to hurry to join. We'll be around for a while.

[CR&PW&JB]

Originally Posted by BlimeyCabrio

With all due respect - I think you need at LEAST 50 (maybe 100) to be a "mad modder"...

I was trying to make it attainable for the normal people.

How about you start another club and you can call it "The I Spent More Money on Mods Than On My Car Club" ??

[polizei]

^That is very possible...especially for people with custom Fireballed! turbo kits. Simply amazing!

-Cody

[Aquasar]

Well I have a few and they are mostly cosmetic.

Smoked side marker
Chrome surround on the front fog, parking lights
Clear Bra
Element antenna
Parcel shelf
Glove Box Divider
Storage trays
Chrome Door Cups
Megan Racing Exhaust
AFE CAI
M7 SRP
MCS Sway Bar

In the works
Angel Eyes
Third Light repeater
Front Mud flaps

Oops forgot
My eyes
Chrome license holder
Light in Sight
and my door plugs
Art

[Loony2N]

That's only 11. Better get some fuzzy dice, etc. to make the 15.....

[cube17576]

Lets start with the big things:
15% pulley
DDM CAI
Miltek exhaust
Rear sway bar
Camber plates
Wilwood BBK
Alta Intercooler diverter
ASA JH6 Wheels
Scroth harnesses
Ipod adapter (ICE-Link)
NGK Spark plugs
Blue spark plug wires
wheel stud conversion

Cosmetic:
Hyper Blue shift knob
Hyper Blue E-Brake handle
Redline goods shift boots
JCW leather downtubes
Redline goods custom Door bar covers
Redline goods leather armrest covers
Chrome button for the screw holes in the doors
stubby antenna
'S' vavle stem colors
eyeball decal under bonnet
eyeballs in rear Cooper emblem
various stickers and club decals
Mini-Fini cup holder

I may not be the maddest, but looking at that list still hurts to think about the checkbook.

I forgot to add the biggest mod of all: the little yellow sibling.

[davavd]

To my surprise, by the standards used above, I do have 15:
1. Light-in-sight
2. multi-vex pass. side mirror
3. glove box tidy
4. body-color painted intercooler cover
5. JCW strut brace
6. John Cooper signature decal
7. Pair dragon decals
8. grille badge holder
9. chrome dragon emblem
10. custom bonnet stripes
11. green eyes
12. europarcel shelf
13. red/chrome S on intercooler cover
14. MOTD5 dash plaque
15. black plugs in door screw holes

There are a couple more on the shelf in the garage awaiting installation.

[ImagoX]

I don't think I have the most, but I think I have some that NOBODY else has. Pics can be found in the "You-ification" thread - see the link in my sig for location:

+++++++++++++++


Let's see if I can remember all the things I've done to my car:

Base: 2006 Hot Orange MCS cabrio (black top), 17" S-lite rims w/ performance run-flats, chrome interior kit, black bonnet stripes.


Exterior MODS:

* Blue LED underbody lighting (using Oznium.com "Beefy Strip" LEDs)
* Aesthetics Creations boot stripes.
* Hella Optilux "Angel Eyes" driving lights ojn Outmotoring bonnet-mount brackets
* Blacked-out grille (black vinyl)
* True-white fog light bulbs
* Orange parking lights
* Smoked tail-lights (Lamin-X film)
* Smoked side-markers (also Lamin-X film)
* "Supercharged" badge on side air vent and intercooler
* Blue cold cathode illumination in front grille
* Blue LED strip in engine bay
* Engine bay eye decals
* Supercharger scoop grille (hand-made)
* Stubby antenna
* Red rubberized tow-hook (front)
* Upgraded exhaust tips (interior painted black)
* Spare rims (X-lites w/All-season Dunlops)
* Removable magnetic "gum ball" racing numbers and other, assorted magnetic accents (seasonal)
* Mid-Ohio Motoring grille badge
* Honeycomb supercharger grille (**NEW! **)
* Orange/Blue Union Jack vinyl "mirror skins" (** NEW! **)
* Euro license plate


Interior MODs:

* 13-ball shifter knob (my very first MOD!)
* Blue cold cathode foot-well illumination
* Blue cold cathode rear seat illumination (under front seats)
* Blue LED "puddle lights" in lower door sills with additional LEDs in door pockets
* Blue LED strip in boot
* Blue LED dome light replacement
* Blue LEDs in center air vents
* Blue LEDS in rear head-rest/roll bar
* White LED dome light in rear
* Custom-made secondary accessory switch box w/ blue LED switches and extra amber cockpit lights (my favorite mod so far)
* Dark gray Outmotoring speedo and guage faces
* Hard-wired MP3 player and Garmin GPS nav unit
* Paint-matched orange rear child seat
* Seat protector on back of passenger seat (see: child seat).
* Glove box organizer

Performance MODs:

* M7 front strut bar with anti-mushroom plates, chrome accent badge and blue LED underlighting
* Engine dampener (blue)
* 15% reduction pulley (planned for after warranty is expired)
* M7 USS system (planned for future)
* Alta cold-air intake (installed April 2007)

[gnatster]

Heh...

Mods:

Interior:
Tinted Windows - Huper Optik 35%
Spiffy Caps
Whalen Shift Machine - Matches custom roof graphic
MyMini Driver Knee Pad
Glove Box Organizer
Momo RSGT2 seats black cloth/grey suede
Momo Steering Wheel - 320mm - black suede
Relocated Cruise Control
Pro-Clip Treo 680 Mount
Rear Seat Delete Kit - Modded with the addition of sound deadening
OEM Arm Rest
All interior bulbs replaced with 6000k Bulbs to match Xenon Headlamps
Garmin Nuvi 350
G2X Dash Unit/Gauges
Custom A Pillar Gauge Pod
Craven Speed FlexPod
Craven Speed 60mm Gauge Cups
Gauges Include:
Air/Fuel Ratio
Volt Meter
Oil Pressure
Oil Temperature
Water Temperature
Boost
Intercooler Temperture
Euro Parcel Shelf w/Pad
Valentine V-1 Hardwired w/remote display
Safety Devices Roll Bar w/Harness Bar and Diagonal
Schroth 6 Point Harnesses
Helix Short Shift



Exterior:
Stubby Antenna - Black Anodized Al
OEM Aero Kit Front Bumper Cover - Modified to fit JCW style functional Brake Ducts
OEM Cooper Rear Bumper Cover - Modified for Dual Exhaust
OEM Aero Kit Side Skirts
Fender Arches Painted Body Color
M7 Carbon Fiber Front Splitter (Aero Kit)
M7 Ultimate Grille Upper & Middle (Black)
M7 Ultimate Grille (Black)
Craft Square Carbon Fiber Side Mirrors
Vented Front Fenders
M7 Rear Wing
Belt Line Trim Blacked out
Smoked Side Marker Lens - In Arches
Smoked Side Marker Lens - In Upper Side Marker
Smoked Tail Light Lens
Custom Painted Xenon Headlight Inserts
M7 DFIC Scoop
Tow Hook - Blue - Front
Pull to Inflate sticker
MM.Org sticker
Custom Roof Graphics
Custom Boot Graphics
Custom Bonnet Graphics
TSW Jack Points
Custom Eyes
Solaris Invsiibulbs - Turn Signal - Side Marker
Orciari Twin Air Intake Scoops
No Holes Front License Plate Holder

Under the Bonnet:
TSW Engine Damper
M7 DFIC w/Ceramic Coating in Black
M7 DFIC AeroGel pad
M7 AeroEx pad
Custom Powder Coated Engine Mounts
Custom Powder Coated Supercharger Clamps
Custom Powder Coated Supercharger Horns
Craven Speed Cold Air Intake w/Heat Shield Wrap
Alta Silicone Intake Tube - Blue
Revolution Mini Works "Jesus" Head
Stahl Long Tube Header
Random Technologies Cat Converter
DynoMax Turbo Muffler
Thermal Exhaust Tips
Silicone Water Hoses - Blue
JCW 380cc Injectors
Craven Speed Mini Dipper - Dipstick
16% Pulley
ALTAnator Pulley
M7 Oil Catch Can
All Clamps replaced with ABA Stainless Steel Rolled Edge Clamps
Forge Motorsports Coolant Overflow Bottle
Forge Motorsports Power Steering Reservoir
Forge Motorsports Covers:
Washer Bottle Cap
Headlamp Washer Bottle Cap
Oil Cap
Brake Fluid Cap
Power Steering Fluid Cap
MSD Ignition Coil
Kingsbourne Spark Plug Wires
NGK Spark Plugs - 2 Ranges Colder
8000 RPM Rev Limit
M7 Air Plate Diverter
180 Degree Thermostat
Detroit Tuned Bypass Valve
Quaife LSD
Spec 3 Clutch
UUC Lightened Flywheel
Detroit Tuned Tensioner Stop

Suspension
Ireland Engineering Street/Sport Adjustable Camber Plates
H&R Rear Sway Bar - 19mm
ProMini Adjustable Trailing Arms
TSW AST Coilovers - Beta Testing
TSW Adjsutable Endlinks
M7 Upper Stress Bar
M7 Under Strut System
Alta Positive Steering Response System

Wheels - Tires
TSW M14-M12 Studs
Project KICS R26 Composite Lug Nuts
Rota Attack 16 x 7 w/225/45-16 Hankook RS-2 Z212- Track/AutoX Use
Rota Circuit 8 16 x 7 w/225/50-16 Kuhmo VictoRacer
BBS LM Custom Painted 17 x 7.5 w/ Pirelli PZero Nero 225/40-17
Fikse Mach V 17 x 7.5 w/ Goodyear GS3 F1 225/40-17
Team Dynamics ProRace 1.2 17 x 7 with Yokohama PARADA Spec-2 225/40-17

Brakes
Wilwood 12.2 Race Kit - Front
Wilwood 11.75" rear rotor enlargement kit
Stainless Steel Brake Lines
Caliper Bushings - Rear


I think that covers everything, will update if needed.

[Jeremy1026]

Clear Taillights
Clear Brake-Lights
Eyes
Stripes
Roof Numbers
Shift Boot/Ring from a manual
Whalen Shift Knob (on my CVT )
Rubbber Floor Mats
Grill Badge Holder (and badges)
Decals (8 on rear passenger, 1 on rear)
Pulled Rear Seats
Hardwired iPod
Aux Input
K&N Typhoon Intake

Hmmm only 14, I need to go but some stuff

[BlimeyCabrio]

As always, thanks to gnatster for making me feel normal / inferior.

And to ImagoX for inspiring some of my mods. And having others I wouldn't want.

[Aquasar]

I never really thought about how many I had but looking a gnatster and ImagoX I am humbled...


Art

[El_Griton]

I was waiting for gnat to post. lol. that took 15 mins to read through!

now wheres longboard, and some of the other big dogs!

[ImagoX]

Originally Posted by Aquasar

I never really thought about how many I had but looking a gnatster and ImagoX I am humbled...


Art

Pssssshaw... we're all pikers compared to Gnatster...

[blainelv]

Originally Posted by El_Griton

I was waiting for gnat to post. lol. that took 15 mins to read through!

now wheres longboard, and some of the other big dogs!

Yeah I am waiting to see the list from Sid although gnat has an impressive list, but I think we all expected that.

[Kentiki]

I tried to leave things like decals off my list. Then it would get really messy.

[dwjj]

Originally Posted by LynnEl

Can I count each license plate screw and each valve stem cover as a mod? How about floor mats, counting as either 1 or 5 mods? Anyway, I don't think I have 15 mods, though I haven't counted. I'm not sure I am in a hurry to join this club.....

Since this is the 1st gen forum, you gonna start one for us 2nd gen people?

[BlimeyCabrio]

Originally Posted by dwjj

Since this is the 1st gen forum, you gonna start one for us 2nd gen people?

I didn't think you could mod R56s??? heh heh heh

[eager2own]

I didn't think you could mod R56s???

he must be talking about stickers

[Mini S Pilot]

You folks are too funny!!! I thought my hubby had it bad.

I thought my husband was bad with his mods on his new 07 Shelby Cobra GT500. Upon ordering it he explained to me that he wasn't going to do any mods. It was coming with 500HP at the motor and he explained that he was happy about that. Heck, before the car arrived the work bench was full of mods. Expensive $$$ ones at that. So he had to explain that he wanted a true GT500. I'm like, "SAY WHAT"? He further explained that it needed to be over 500HP at the rear wheels. Okay . So after his extensive mods movement he now has 560HP at the rear wheels. He couldn't keep it planted to start off with, so little to say this didn't improve the wheels hooking up on pavement thingy.