I haven't seen many R52's with low mounted driving/fog lights, so I did this.




Alta rally light bar with Hella 500's wired to the fog lights (pita, but worth it) and I gave him some teeth too

 

I like that! I want to mount my driving lights low like that.

Dave

 

I like it, but I'm biased .

 

Ordered my alta 15% puller and blood red intercooler diverter. What should I do next??

 

I also like it, but I'd add a single one centered above the license plate, if I could figure out a mount for it....

C ya,
Dutch

 

I did this yesterday. Stoptech cross drilled rotors and street performance pads. I also painted the calipers blue with Duplicolor caliper paint.

 

^^ Those are nice.

 

i like those as well but keep reading about how drilled rotors are not a good idea since they crack. let us know know they work out.

 

DDM Intake. Wanted to go ahead and order an exhaust while at WMW, ATL.... Hubby found a part that makes the CEL go away even in the absence of catalytic converter..... hmmmmm, just wonder if anyone can tell me if MilliTek or Borla have any real advantages over Megan? I know they are more expensive, and have seen several videos on YouTube w/ different exhaust sounds. Not really finding a diff. there, J/W if any of you would help out one of the newbies lol

 

I've got Zimmerman cross drilled rotors and have about 10K on them and no problems. Also running EBC redstuff pads.

 

What generation cooper do you have? I have an '03 R53, and I am very happy with my Megan Racing exhaust. For $515, it's almost half the price of the others.

I've noticed a slight uptick in MPG and I love the sound.

 

They do crack if the rotor is not appropriately sized for the application. This is the 10th set of cross drilled rotors I have had on my vehicles and the only set I have had crack are the ones on my 2000 Dakota R/T...braking system sucked on that truck. I will keep a close eye on these, but I have alot of faith in the braking system on the Mini, we have the same size rotors in the front as the Pontiac GTO that weight 1/2 a ton more than our cars.

 

I put 100,000 miles on a set of drilled rotors on my Volvo, no problems. They finally wore out. I replaced them with a set of non-drilled Zimmermans, because I got a good price on them.

Dave

 

I just installed my new VIP customs stb very nice quaility and fits perfect.

only thing im not sure about is on my passenger side the plate doesnt sit flush towards the front. im guessing this means its mushroomed a little bit.....

 

Mine did the same thing when I installed it. I had to re-torque the passenger side strut mount several times before it held the torque setting. I could feel the plate pulling the strut tower back into flatness as I repeatedly re-torqued it.

HTH!

C ya,
Dutch

 

Yep shifting is so much smoother, best 50bucks I have spent on the car yet

 

and 2nd best thing I did (actually did it first) was a 19 mm h-sport rear sway bar. 100% improvement in understeer and handling.

 

thx for the info seems like i could do that on mine but im scared of pulling the studs out i heard they are onlu pressed in and well afraid to mess it up. dam i hate this....lol

 

If you put a torque wrench on it and torque to spec, then go back and it can be tightened without going above torque spec, then the metal is mushroomed and you're not going to pull the stud out by re-torquing it to the spec. If the thing's not tight, the strut may rattle and your handling will be weird, in a perhaps dangerous way. Certainly a re-check with the torque wrench is in order, since if it's up to torque, you don't have to tighten it any more....

Mine pulled up to about 18 ft./lbs. and then, as the metal re-formed itself flat against the bottom of the plate, I turned each nut at least two full turns past that point (going round-and-round a quarter turn at time on each nut) before they rose beyond that and finally held the 22 ft./lbs. or whatever the spec was. You could see the gap around it shrink with each crank on the wrench....

HTH!

C ya,
Dutch

 

Thx i will keep rechecking it and see if it reforms

 

Routine Oil Change, Standard Scope, and a Bath. Ready for MOTORING!

 

Well this was last night - replaced serpentine belt tensioner assembly and idler pulley.

 

Wouldn't "last night" run from October to March for you guys up there?

C ya,
Dutch

 

Put in an order for some Euro Halogen HIDs. Can't wait to get back to CA to install them!

http://www.protuninglab.com/07micoeuhapr3.html

 

wow those like real nice i may have to look into those for my 2008 MC, i want some black headlights. is there anything special needed to be done to wire in the HID's....?