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Old Jul 18, 2008 | 07:40 PM
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ALTA's Latest Test Mule is HERE! Pics inside!

ok so I lied just a little bit! My apologies but I was just so excited. I will post pics tomorrow of our:

2009 JCW Cooper S Launch Edition
Chili Red / black roof
Premium
Cold
Aero
The list goes on!

i-phone pics SORRY! Real Camera was dead. Better pics tomorrow!


CLICK HERE TO GO TO GALLERY! WON'T LET ME POST PICS


Questions? Just ask me!
 

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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 01:24 AM
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Awesome! Congrats! I don't need pics, but do everyone else a favor and post em!! can I just come by Alta on Saturday and check it out? Then I can show you what a CR/B is supposed to look like
 

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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 01:47 AM
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awh you tease! haha
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 06:46 AM
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Adam you tease!!

Sounds great and also look forward to seeing the pics posted as soon as possible.
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 07:09 AM
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Awesome! Congrats! I don't need pics, but do everyone else a favor and post em!! can I just come by Alta on Saturday and check it out? Then I can show you what a CR/B is supposed to look like
LOVE IT! I will try to be back to the shop before we close with it. So MONDAY might be a better bet? Who knows!

Thanks again for the support!
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by everytimeidie027
awh you tease! haha
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Adam you tease!!

Sounds great and also look forward to seeing the pics posted as soon as possible.
I know I suck, but I JUST couldn't resist!

Chat soon!
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 03:21 PM
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LINK TO GALLERY ADDED ABOVE!
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 03:26 PM
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let me know if you want to sell some of the parts you replace with alta parts
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 03:28 PM
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so the new JCW doesn't come with the special shiftknob anymore?
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 04:00 PM
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 04:18 PM
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so the new JCW doesn't come with the special shiftknob anymore?
No it actually does! Black w/red and the shift pattern lights up!
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 04:24 PM
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Adam,just came home from driving the exact same car over at Alexander Mini in LA.The car just showed up without any notice and Shep called me to try it out.The car is great but it will certainly be much better when you put on the tubes and the intercooler.I got to drive it pretty hard and I love the way it feels,but it does need your breathing goodies to make it a little throatier like mine...Will certainly love to hear your impressions...drive it hard and have fun...hope the family is well,my best regards...
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 04:37 PM
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Wow congrats Adams ...I might be going up to Pittsburgh this week to see if they have a jcw demo in.
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 04:45 PM
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So if I move to Oregon will you let me work for you? =)
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ADAMSALTAMINI
No it actually does! Black w/red and the shift pattern lights up!
wow... cool... so they put a wire with LED in there...
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 09:27 PM
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So if I move to Oregon will you let me work for you? =)
HECK YEAH! Send me your resume!
 
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Wow congrats Adams ...I might be going up to Pittsburgh this week to see if they have a jcw demo in.
Let me know what you think if you get the chance!
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark Kurzius
Adam,just came home from driving the exact same car over at Alexander Mini in LA.The car just showed up without any notice and Shep called me to try it out.The car is great but it will certainly be much better when you put on the tubes and the intercooler.I got to drive it pretty hard and I love the way it feels,but it does need your breathing goodies to make it a little throatier like mine...Will certainly love to hear your impressions...drive it hard and have fun...hope the family is well,my best regards...
Thanks as always Mark!

I am going to drive it a bunch tomorrow so I can put it on the dyno early in the week to get some baseline #'s for everyone. Then start going from there.

Also, we should start publishing the fitment crossovers from the "regular" R56 MCS for folks very soon as well. But it looks like much will cross and much will NOT.

Thanks again!
 
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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 10:12 PM
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Very nice......I'll be very curious to see dyno results and comparisons to "ALTA" tuned cars!!!...how are those brakes?
 
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Old Jul 20, 2008 | 12:46 AM
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Lookin' good Adam. So did you get the JCW suspension kit as well?
 
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Old Jul 20, 2008 | 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by scott48
Very nice......I'll be very curious to see dyno results and comparisons to "ALTA" tuned cars!!!...how are those brakes?
When I parked it after getting home from the dealer it had 14 miles on it. So I need to bed the pads in a bit before letting you know. I have the WILWOOD kit on LLoyd and that will make a good comparison once I can get on em both hard.

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Old Jul 20, 2008 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by amazingrando
Lookin' good Adam. So did you get the JCW suspension kit as well?
I don't think so, but I will go look. MINI f'd up all the launch cars window stickers, so I really don't know what is completely on the car, and you can't build it that way on MINIUSA.com. So I will go poke my head under there in a few minutes!

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Old Jul 20, 2008 | 10:36 PM
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...so I may get an answer to my question in one of your other threads after all... Looking forward to your company's results.
 
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Old Jul 21, 2008 | 06:52 AM
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...so I may get an answer to my question in one of your other threads after all... Looking forward to your company's results.

What was the question so I can get going on it ASAP for you?
 
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Old Jul 21, 2008 | 08:56 AM
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In the " NEW ALTA R56 Plug-n-Play ECU Q&A Thread" (post #528) I'd asked:

Towards any of the Alta employees... What are the plans for a '09 JCW specific tune by you/UniChip? Yes, I know someone's got to get their hands on it [the car] 1st. <grin> I'm just wondering if estimations were made of the form "we expect we could have our tune altered specific to that model N number of days from the date we get our hands on one..."?

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