I painted my gas cap and grill satin black. I love it. Next up is retrofitting my headlights

-B

 

Sweet I love my aero grill one of my favorite mods I also blacked out my headlight rings really tied it together

 

Washed, Clayed, Compounded, Waxed and photographed! Just gotta pick a set of summer rims and she's ready.

 

Looks fantastic! Nice effect on the pic.

 

Notified my GP2 rear diffuser shipped. Should have it next week.

 

Changed the fuel filter in a 2007 mini cooper non-s.

 

Installed an Ignition package that i ordered from WMW, still have to install my 16% pulley reduction and bushings but i dont have the tools, then i cleaned my ddm works uni air filter, and then received a passenger weight sensor by the mail man today with it still attached to the cushion from Snakebitx1 who i bought it from on here and spent the rest of the day installing it, and was glad to see that the air bag light turned off without needing to take it to a mini dealership to get it reset. All in all a great day

 

Painted my dash trim black, more black to come!

 

Looks nice.

 

I fit my band equipment into it, including a 60"-long keyboard case.



Of course, there's no room for passengers:

 

Installed a 180 deg thermostat, flushed the cooling system , added "water wetter"

 

Took him for a track tour at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI! Heard a little vibration in the dash at about 90 mph. Not sure how to explain that to my SA!

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...rica-77466.jpg

 

After the sucessful 180 thermostat and coolant flush ...I did a rear wiper delete and installed a intercooler sprayer

 

Wash, clay bar, DA polish, and wax. Restored all the plastic to a proper black.

Worked out a "few" scratches from the previous owner (who apparently had a thing for driving into bushes)

 

Went for my third cruise in a month. On the same roads but different car groups.

 

Drove it 170 miles to a wedding through 56 miles of windy backroads and dodged dozens of ground squirrels crossing the road minus one. On the way home, took same backroads and had a near-miss with a pack of wild hogs/boars crossing the road as I went around a blind turn. Luckily only one of the hogs/boars was actually on the road and the others were still on the bushes. I honked to get it to move out of the way faster and slammed the brakes and swerved just a foot to the right to come within inches of the wildling. Gotta love the braking and handling of the MINI. Had the wife and I taken the SUV on our trip, I'm pretty sure we would have hit the hog/boar.

 

cleaned off the plastidip, removed my broken antenna base, cleaned out all the junk that I had accumulated inside, reinstalled my above windshield weatherstrip, added some oil and water,

AND SOLD IT.

So long mini! It was fun while it lasted, but you were expensive to maintain, fun to drive, but the stick and 26mpg just wasn't the right combo for me. Plus, I had to get rid of my other car and it just made the best financial sense.

I'll miss you Mini, perhaps we will meet again when I can afford a Blue/Black JCW A/T.

Goodbye everyone!

 

So you're saying the MINI's handling is squirrely, and that driving it is a boar?

;-)

 

I went to the 2103 Bimmerfest event at the rosebowl. Nothing like a few thousand BMW's in one place



Here is a link to my photo bucket page for those interested.

http://s118.photobucket.com/user/max...merfest%202013

 

Did you take the DeLorean?

 

What size tires are you running?

 

Replaced chrome headlight trim with anthracite headlight trim. Now my baby is smiling

 

Thnx ECS Tuning. The best place for MINI OEM stuff...hands down

 

I'll second that! ECS Tuning is the best!!!!!

 

215/45 on a 8 inch rim .

Randy