Im looking at getting a friends John Cooper Works factory original exhaust for 01/2004 to 09/2006 BMW MINI Cooper S R53. According to RealOEM.com, the rear section will work on all R53 built between January 2004 and September 2006! Apparently EARLY 2002 and 2003 R53 have slightly different exhaust hanger arrangement. Mine is a 2002 model s

 

Make some new brackets. They don't look complicated. Or, have new hangers made. Any muffler shop can just weld on new ones, they're just metal bits.

 

Use a torch heat them up carefully twist 90 degrees, donezo

 

Awesome!

I was kinda figuring it would be something like that but wanted to be for certain before I went to put it on an it be totally off