I've overspent my budget on my new manual trans Countryman S All4 car for this week/month/year, but I would like to do a few more things to it through the course of my ownership. I know the F60 is the oddball platform, but it seems like there should be a fair amount of cross compatible parts both OEM and through the aftermarket for at least some of the items in the list, below.

Items that I'll be interested for the future

1. Short Shifter
2. downpipe
3. swaybars
4. Brembo Brakes/calipers... the red ones

Any input would be great.

 

Supposedly the JCW Brake kit is coming, it's available for the Clubman and the Countryman kit should be the same or very similar.

https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sho...diagId=03_0047

 

Well, I already have the JCW tuning kit on my S, might as well do the brakes as well. I hope that kit actually happens.

 

Let's hope the F60 JCW brake upgrade isn't as sorry as it is for the R60, where it's essentially just a coat of red paint on the standard OE slider setup.

So as not to leave this to chance, my buddy and went to work on a custom F60 BBK that uses a Telsa rear electric parking brake so that both front and rear ends can run fixed/performance calipers for the active units. However, that little project is less 'compatible' and more 'custom'. Suffice to say, I'm chomping at the bit to get it completed.

FWIW - Some of the F30 suspension parts are 'fittable' to the F60. The rear dampers in particular have the same attachment points and are shorter, making them perfect for a lowered F60. In short, you can likely use a coilover kit for the F30 and simply source a few bits to change out and you'll have a baller/adjustable lowering kit for the F60...

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ard-parked.jpg

 

The front calipers on the F54 kit are definitely new units. The part numbers show they are the same calipers used across the F56, F57, F54 and F60 JCW models. The rear calipers are unique to the JCW F54 and F60, they're still single piston though. So you're essentially upgrading to the JCW models brakes with this kit.

The other expense of the JCW brake kit is going to be the wheels needed to clear the calipers. By the time you purchase the JCW brakes, JCW wheels and JCW tune, it probably would have been cheaper to buy the full blown JCW version, but you wouldn't have the JCW Pro exhaust that way.

 

I did some deeper search and I have figured out that if you are going from S to JCW brakes you will get:
- bigger rotors:
335mm x 30mm vs. 330mm x 24mm on the front,
- bigger and ventilated rotors:
300mm x 20mm vs. 280mm x 10mm on the rear,
- four piston calipers on the front and one piston on the rear.
Also you should change protection plates. All the rest would fit.

 

Looks like there will be some increased thermal capacity if the above holds true. I wonder if the master cylinder will need to be swapped then, as well.

 

I wrote an email to Cravenspeed asking to compare the short shifter kit for the Countryman vs. the kit for the F56 platform. Their response was that the kits were identical.
...I bought one. Gotta figure out how the console comes out of the F60.

 

Start here:

https://www.newtis.info/tisv2/a/en/f...les/1VnYy8b4q1

 

Thanks! Finished the job before I saw the post. Everything looks very familiar in that instruction set, though. The two screws behind the 12V and USB panel threw me for a loop for a bit. If not for the rubber bushing replacement spacers, the console wouldn't have had to be removed for the actual shifter installation.

As for the install; F56=F60 for the shifter bits. The only issue I had necessitated narrowing reverse selector piece and its bushings so there was enough meat on the pivot shaft for the retaining clip to grab onto.

Zero screws were left behind!

 

Will the turbo from the X2 M35i / 2020 JCW Countryman bolt onto the lowly S model?

 

Complete.

 

They look pretty awesome!

How is the pedal travel? Engagement point?

Are they more touchy/grabby than stock on initial application?

pic stolen from CG1*'s post

 

I'll reply on the BBK thread, as it wasn't my intention to derail this one. Only posted to close the loop on this little upgrade.