alright guys so i thought i would start an official progress thread for my 2006 royal grey mini s, six speed.


Bought her stock in feb of this year. Heres a pictures of her in her stock glory


anddddd onto the fun...

Installed - Red
Ordered - Blue

Current Mods:

Suspension:
-Stratmosphere V-Maxx Coil Overs
-Stratmosphere Front End Links

Performance:
-Short Ram Intake
-Alta V2 15% Supercharger Pulley
-Slotted And Cross Drilled Rotors/Red Calipers

Exterior:
-17x7 Black Evoke M5 Rims
-Smoked Side Markers
-Shorter Antenna
-Black Mirror Caps Grill/Grill Slats, Headlight Rings And Gas Cap
-Tinted Bumper Reflectors
-Rear Wiper Delete Kit

Interior:
Black Door Handle Cups


Audio:
-Auxiliary Audio Input

here she is...








Some Of The Future Mods Consist Of:
-Full Cat Back Invidia Exhaust
-Spacers
-Possibly A Different Top Mount Intercooler Set up(high flow probally..mines just all dinged up..id like it to be shiney and new looking under the hood)
-Detroit Tuned Bypass valve
-Tints
-and lots more.

and im sure there will be alot of random odds and ends along the way...

thanks for stoping by

 

Update 8/18:

got bored today and painted the interior door cups black..i think im going to do the speaker grills as well...thoughts?

before:


after:


and also ordered the black tint overlays for the bumper reflectors, thank you outmotoring :-)

 

Update 8/21:

cars dirty and they are just cell pics..but the bumper lights are tinted..





think ill be picking up a rear seat delete kit next..probally in the next week or two.

 

That looks pretty good, I would loose the stickers on the windows though.

 

nice car, and yeah i agree about the stickers (unless they sponsor you), i got buncha alta stuff too, but sure as hell am not gonna advertise it unless they pay me

love the car tho, it has a nice stance, and all the black bits really accent it nicely.

i'd suggest loosing that useless rear windshield wiper

 

Beautiful car! You've definitely done your homework. Thanks for sharing.

 

thanks guys...stickers are gone..i just hadnt had the time to take them off...and im iffy about the wiper

 

Yup, darn nice looking machine!

 

you thinking about tinting the windows at all?

 

i didnt realize how cheap the kit was for the rear wiper delete...so i just ordered one...kudos for the idea.

 

yeah i plan on getting them tinted over the winter when its cold out so im not angry that i cant roll down my windows for a few days lol. 35% is the legal limit in mass so thats what ill be doing.

shell be getting alot done to her over the winter..going with some 16x8 rims with streched tires, 3" dish/lip...going a little lower once im able to with the stretched tires. then a full cat back exhaust..and who knows what else..in the process of refinishing my stock s-lites in white for the winter.

these rims will be up for grabs come december...

 

nice, yeah in IL they just passed the tint law, same 35% but i did limo including windshield lol (in hopes that they dont look at tinted cars anymore hehe).

but yeah, nice looking car and steady progress. keep at it

 

thanks bro..how do you like your dtbv?

 

Where are you guys located?

We are about an hour west of Rockford, IL.

 

Lookin good!

 

for the guys who have done the wiper delete..to get the arm off the motor..what have u used...will a basic c clamp work?

 

when i did mine few weeks back, i just grabbed it and it slid off. there has been a case of people having to beat it off, i guess for starters spray some wd40 to loosen it up a little, but whatever you do just pull STRAIGHT out.
let us know how it goes, and post up some pics

 

Dude. Are you from Pepperell/ Pepperell area? PM me.

 

Update: 8/31

bye bye wiper


tried everything to get the arm off..nothing worked..days of p.b. plaster soaking..tried with a puller, nothing..so hacksaw it was..the arms only 30 bucks so ill live.

 

I'm most likely right pretty close to your homestead. You need any help/info it'd be glad to help out.

 

where abouts?

Update: 9/6

since winter is getting close and my stock s-lites have some curb rash from the previous owner...they are now white...p.s. thats masking tape around the valve stem..i didnt paint those.

 

mock up for ***** and giggles.

 

crappy pics..whatever..

 

Nice looking car. You've done a great job personalizing it.

I, too, had to take a hacksaw to the wiper arm to get it off.

Now you need to get rid of the chrome in the tail lights. I think there's a couple of older threads speaking on how to do that.

....Les

 

I'll apologize ahead of time...