lol hey guys, i'm formly a saturn owner / modifier.

I had a 2004 Saturn ION-1 sedan which I turbocharged, there's youtube videos of the vehicle of it running and when i popped a piston lol.

Well after spending too much time and money on the damn ION i finally broke down and wanted to buy a better car.

So I went to my saturn dealership and saw this.



I wanted to test drive it and holy crap I was impressed, the car handled like a dream and it took off pretty quick, I was definately in love.

So I purchased the vehicle for $16,995 and it only has 30k miles on it. I just need wait for the registration to go through before i can take delievery.

For modifications since i'm not 100% on the tuning options for the vehicle (i dont want to play with piggybacks, i'd rather have some kind of ecu modifier like HP tuners (GM / Ford) or something. I just don't want to do the whole standalone route unless i really have to) But i'm just going to be basic for now (smaller pulley, colder plugs, better i/c, intake, header, catback)

I know my stuff for car modifications and engine building since i have built a forged engine for my ion but sold it, so right now it has a stock engine in there with the turbo.

Here's an image of the turbo ion


That's when I was trying to get the car to run on Megasquirt II, but it ran like crap so i just put in the 034 Extra Injector Controller and called it a day, it only put down 210whp and 230wtq :( and i never got a video of that day :(.

But the other reason i got the Mini Cooper S was because I just recently defeated cancer and wanted to treat myself for the hell i went through for the past 5 months .

So i guess i'm not your average newbie? lol

 

Welcome to the club!

 

Thanks!

 

Welcome to the world of MINIs and it certainly sounds like you deserved it! Congrats on the new car and overcoming your health issues...

Donna