Hello everyone, my name is Yannick and i am in Tacoma, Washington. We are picking up our first ever Mini this Tuesday and looking forward to it! We have many other cars (we are a car family), mostly German, from as early as 1963 to 2006. We have been wanting the coveted R53 for a long time and this one just seemed to be the right one for us and we are ready for it. It is a 2003 Cooper S with just over 119,000 miles on the clock, just 2 previous owners.

There was mods done to the car by the first owner already which i was told was a very big Mini enthusiast. The 2nd owner has owned it for now 8 years and she has done all the maintenance outside of course of the coveted supercharger one, which will be the first one i get done.

Here is the list of current mods;

• Borla Cat Back Exhaust
• Intake with K&N Air Box
• Alta 15% Supercharger Pulley
• Alta Rear Sway Bar
• M7 Strut Tower Plates
• Detroit Tuned ByPass Valve
• Power Steering Fan Cover
• Shorty Antennae
• Rear Seat Pull Straps
• Rear Boot Box
• Spare S-Lite Factory Wheel with Tire Mounted
• Factory Euro Parcel Shelf under steering column
• Glove Box Organizer
• Center Console Cubby
• Chrome Handbrake Handle
• Cowl Vent Grill Upgrade
• Rear Fog Lamps

Please let me know if i should replace some of those mods or add to them to make the car perform better and be better all the way around! I was told that the open air box/filter was not the best idea for those cars due to heat and it is better to run a closed air box. Is that correct?

Anyways, thank you for you time and I am looking forward on meeting and talking to some of you and asking a bunch of question so i can start figuring out this car a little more intimately!

Yannick

 

Congrats, nice list of mods!

 

Hey someone in my neighborhood!!
Im a bit north in Marysville.
welcome to the forum!
If you are interested, there is a pretty large enthusiast club up here, and the membership not only gets you in with a great group of people with Mini’s, we have monthly donut and coffee meets, along with club drives.
Also the membership gets you a discount on parts and service at both Mini dealerships, as well as several club sponsors, some of which are vendors here.
If you are interested look is up: PSMINI: the Puget Sound Mini Motoring Club. https://psmini.wildapricot.org/

 

Hi and welcome to NAM, Rah!
Congrats on acquiring an R53 mini!
Show us some pics of it!

 

Welcome to NAM Yannick, how'd it go? Did you bring the mini home?

 

Thank you much!

 

Thank you for the welcome. My sister and my brother live in the Mill creek area, so not too far from you! I am definitely interested in checking out the club. I have been a car enthusiast my whole life, as is my girlfriend and our boys as well! I am a big VW/Audi guy and belong to a couple of groups and entering the Mini scene would be awesome to meet some of you guys and start learning more about this great little car for sure. I am kind of hooked on it i can't lie lol. I will look up PSMINI a.s.a.p. Thanks for letting me know!

 

Thank you! i will try to post more pictures soon, i only have the one in the avatar and a couple in the album, got to figure out how to post pics in the threads, got to read about your site lol.

 

Thank you and yes, she is home! i will post new pictures soon and i am sure posting a bunch of questions about it, i am already into a few things that i feel are not right or not used too lol. Time to figure things out. Either way, i think its going to be a great time with this one!