Beautiful car! I haven't bought a cooper yet but if I had enough $$ i would buy one like yours!

 

Are you sure that the motul fluid you saw was $40 for a litre? RBF comes in 500ml bottles....

 

1/2 L here

http://www.raceshopper.com/motul_brake_fluid.shtml

$20

 

ah.

My bad

 

No worries

 

Awesome car and photos!

CCWs and BC Racing.....come on.....

- Andrew (from GTWorx/RCE)

 

Whats wrong with either? I know you guys are KW fans but the BCs shouls do great for Stock Class

 

CCWs are baller, no doubt about that. But with BCs it's like....a nice steak with some Milwaukee's Best instead of a nice red wine.

- Andrew

 

I had great results with them. Danny and the guys at BC give me all the support I need for getting the car dialed in for Time Attack, and have been far better then the guys I worked with at KW on my old E90.

I know there is the debate about short travel coilovers vs long travel (such as KW) but I have done my research on both and have been successful on short travel setups like the old Bridgestone Coilovers I had on my Evo IX (and yes Bridgestone does make coilovers, or well at least they use to ... lol)

 

just giving you a hard time...your car is a beast.

- andrew

 

Updates ....

Got some of the brake parts in :D

2pc Rotors by DBA (5000 series) - right now these are the only 2pc rotors on the market for the JCW OEM Brembos :tu:





Stainless Steel Brake Lines:



Also the Recaro Pole Positions came in :D:D:D ... Im just waiting on one more set of brackets.





BK brackets to work with OEM sliders:



And a new seat weight sensor to keep the passenger air bag working

 

siiick

 

Nice! Cant wait to see the seats installed!!

 

question are the rotors lighter than the stock ones and where did you get them.

 

+1. it'd be great if you could measure both the stockies and the dba's

 

I will be sure to get weights when I take off the OEMs.

I got the rotors directly through DBA, but anyone that sells DBA rotors can get them for you as they where just released the start of this month. Just use the part numbers shown in the photos on the boxes.

 

Racecomp Engineering sells DBA.

410-579-1501

Since the rotors are new they might not know off the top of their head but they can get you a good price. Let them know Andrew with the Mini sent you.

- Andrew

 

Thanks . Luckily I live in Australia, DBAs are made here...

 

M3,
Did you get the seats installed yet?

 

Nice work, I'll be following this build closely.

I recently installed some similar brake lines to my Cooper S and am thinking seriously about getting some DBA 5000's fitted soon, looking forward to seeing them fitted to yours.

This R56 aftermarket seat install write-up might come in handy when installing those Recaros.

 

Got the seats in last night. Man that was a time consuming project. Took me most of my night last night since I got off work and I already had all the tools, drill bits and other tid bits ready to go.

However they are in, I have all my stock seat belts working and functional, and no air bag lights, and seat weight sensor working.

Will get some photos later today and post them up.

 

Got the seats in ... sorry for the crappy photos

 

 

Wow awesome car man. Love the CCW's awesome stance. Seats are WOWo

DO you have specs on the CCW's? I know they don't give offsets out.

Nice work man.

Chris

 

They are set to my specs: 18x8.5 +32 all around, and I added a 5mm spacer in the front to add some Challenge car like front stagger