At least those of you who have been following my mod adventures for the past 23 months won't believe it.

Yep, after 50 purely aesthetic mods on the three MINIs, the originator of The Mad Modder Club is finally doing a couple of performance mods !!

Behold: Megan cat-back systems. Notice also the red filters I put out. WMW/DDM Cold Air Intakes to be installed also. Work to be completed on Thursday.



And yeah, I know the garage floor needs to be mopped.

 

I lust after your garage floor, as admittedly weird and perverse as that sounds...

Oh, and that exhaust is very nice, too!

 

Yea that floor is a bloody disgrace

I wish my kitchen was that clean

 

you guys....

Here's what the floor looks like when it's CLEAN.

 

Looks the same to me

Just kidding, the whole set up looks really cool.

 

Ha ! Thanks but that first pic does show a pretty darned dirty floor.

BTW... www.racedeck.com

 

Wow, I don't even know what to say!
I'm now ashamed to call myself OCD!

Although, my husband's in charge of the garage

 

That garage looks exactly like my fathers...only instead of MINI stuff everywhere, its porsche stuff (i like yours waaaay better )

I'd do anything just for a driveway

street parking is the worst

 

Nice garage dude

 

yeah, yeah, the garage is okay but what about those EXHAUSTS ?!

 

Oh no he's been hit by the power bug . I'm sorry but it will never end now . You will never have enough POWER, .

 

It started when my other half heard some of the exhaust stystems at MOTD. She HAD to have some burble (or as she called it, "verbal").

So anyway, she mentions this to Mishka at the farewell dinner and the next thing you know, we are both getting rides to listen to the growl of the CAI. Thanks to Hansie, too.

So... we come back home, I do a little research here on NAM and listen to some audio recordings of the aftermarket exhaust systems... couple weeks later, here we are.

 

Nice pipes, you going to hang something on all three? Good choices, btw.

 

Thanks... yeah, we loved the sound of the Megan system.

Nope, no pipes for the MCSC for now. Being a convertible, you already hear quite a bit of Hummmmmmmmm while motoring. I'm afraid it would be too loud inside the car with aftermarket exhaust.

Who knows if that particular itch will need to be scratched in the future though.

 

I like the garage, how many tiles does the cooper take up? If it isn't ridiculous pricing I kinda want to do this to my garage.

 

Great too see them on display. Nice MINI room too.

 

The Racedeck tiles are 1 sf each. As you can see in my pic, the checkered area is 6 tiles wide by 11 tiles long... 66 tiles. So if you just want to do an area large enough to park the MINI on top of it, that's all you'd need.

I assure you, you'll want to do your entire garage floor though.

Those Racedeck tiles are a little pricey. I can't quote you a price because my flooring is over a year old. Not sure what their current pricing is.

Other garage floor tiles are not as expensive... Big Foot, for example.

 

BTW... if anyone wants to hear what this exhaust sounds like, go here:

http://www.autoxcooper.com/megan.html

...and click on the link on that page that says, "Go ahead hear this bad boy, you know you want to".

Go ahead... you know you want to !

 

I was just getting ready to send you a PM to ask if the new 'toys' had arrived.

Can't wait to hear how you like them. (More important: How does Roxanne like them? )

 

I'll let you know in about 34 1/2 hours, Mike !

She's more excited about getting some growl and burble than I am... and I'm looking forward to the extra pep, too, so that's saying something !

 

The best compliment I ever recieved on my Megan exhaust was from a owner of a 03 JCW. He liked my sound better than his.


Art

 

Now there is a guy with too much time on his hands LOL

 

So how do you like the exhaust? Wow, catbacks and intakes, welcome to the dark side

On a side note;
I really liked the JCW cat back on the cabrio S. Had a very nice tone and sound level for it. Added an OBX, it got significantly louder, now the RMW system requires earplugs Well, not really, but close.
In the vert, the louder exhausts are quieter with the top down, there's a resonance in the cabin with the top up.

 

LOVING the Megan Cat-backs. They sound rrrrrrreally good.

As far as the CAIs go... I'm seeing a slight increase in MPGs but I feel no appreciable increase in horses. If there is any, it's not enough to notice. But I'll take the increase in gas mileage. After all, that's why we opted for the two Justacoopers in the first place.

Thanks for asking. And yeah, I like it here on the Dark Side.

 

Beware, the darkside is very powerful, before you know it you be giving Jan a blank check