Removed the bonnet lining fabric/fiber/whateveritis from the inside of the bonnet.

Man, it's dirty under that thing. Off to the carwash stall....

This was done in preparation for adding venting to the bonnet to reduce under-bonnet temperatures, in hope of rubber items lasting longer, slightly increased performance, and better cooling and (most importantly here in Mordor) a/c efficiency....

C ya,
Dutch

 

I had the windshield replaced :-( and added better venting to the hood scoop.

 

Will try to post pic on Monday...

 

Took him to a car show and saw some great cars. His first real excursion on his new summer sneakers - Enkei Imola's.

 

Kid C. looks great, W Loving the look

 

Picking him up yesterday felt like Christmas morning. It definitely was an instant WW when I saw him parked at the tire shop.

 

those looks sweet im thinking about going to 17's now and they look like my next wheels i do like my enkie edr9's but those lose just as good.....

 

^^^ Thanks. I like that you can really see my RSB now.

 

You should paint the calipers that will set it off even more. I did on mine and it really looks way better. I will be doing the RSB later on also

 

My plan is to get them painted in black to match the wheels. I don't want them to stand out, I just want them to not look so filthy and take away from the wheel.

What color are yours? I looked in your gallery, but I think those shots were pre-painting.

 

Mine are red heres some pics

 

Red would look nice behind those wheels...

 

Installed a new slave cylinder from a 1990 V6 S10
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ml#post3565475

 

wash it my self and in the prosses i admired those
great lines, then i toked for a spin, i like this little car

 

After looking at inkspot's, red is a possibility.

 

I installed Nm Engineering's discharge and charge pipe. What a difference! Gave me an extra 1.5 pounds of boost and a lot better turbo and throttle response. Simply amazing.

 

Just added pic of my bumpers Qwiklip to my gallery. LOVE the look. Day 4 with it and it is staying put. Also protects underside of bumper from scrapes (which I am guilty of)

 

Yup it will look sweet red.

 

Looks good. Is "Schmutz" the cat's name?

C ya,
Dutch

 

Yup....he took a dump in the litter box in our car when, after we adopted him, we were bringing him home, hence.....

 

Dude! Far out!



;-)

 

Drove 5 Hours to get my parts at "Nearby" shop!!!

Dropping everything at the mechanic tomorrow

Cant wait to get our baby back

Hummmm Babyback, on that note....

 

today i change the air cabin filter, it was easy

 

I changed the rear brake pads and rotors and had the windshield changed damn rocks.

 

I blacked out the grille bars on my Pepper White R52 (1st gen convertible). I left the chrome grille surround and used plasti-dip to paint the grille. Plasti-dip is all it is cracked up to be. The finish matches the fender flares and such on the MINI very well. I got a piece of dirt in the first coat I did on the lower grille, so I just peeled it right off and redid it. It is also really easy to get an even coat with no runs because the stuff is viscous and contracts a lot while drying. Pretty fun.

One thing I did a little differently was prompted by how difficult it is to get the grille off. The little plastic studs sticking out of the grille have little sheetmetal nuts that hold them to the car. It is hard to get the nuts off because they don't want to just unscrew, and it is easy to break the plastic studs off. So, I drilled holes where the studs were and used plastic expanding rivets to hold it on. The rivets I used are the ones used to hold the insulating pad onto the underside of the hood. Now I can remove the grille much more easily if I need to touch up the plasti-dip some day. I plan to add stripes soon, too, so I'll be able to remove the grille for that. The plastic rivets have part number 51481915964, cost about $0.50 for each of eleven of them, and needed to be shortened a bit to work. I used a bench sander for that.