I know some of us have gotten out of control with our cars. I'm in the middle of having some new interior rear panels made for my baby, but I was wondering how many other people have made their car a two-seater? What little cargo space I had before is now the front passenger footwell<g>.
Now there's 11 speakers, 1500 watts of amp power (Planet Audio), custom VUE gauges (beneath switch panel), DVD, XM radio, iPod, and Bluetooth. You can't see it in the picture, but on the front side of the roll cage (behind your head) are the Polk/Momo tweeters.
On the top side of the roll cage, underneath the rear sunroof, is a custom XM radio antenna mount. None of the tacky "sitting on the dash" stuff. Any other tricked-out audio/interior setups?

 

You are having too much fun. That is insane. I was happy with my simple after market sony h/u + ipod and my little 10" sub...everything else is factory. Wow.

 

Fracky,
That's sick!
Who needs rear passengers?
Your mucho audio/video system is hurting your power to weight ratio!
Add another two tanks of Nitrous quick!
Custom roll cage? Nice.

 

Looks like Ozzy on the screen. Good choice!

 

Thanks guys!
My Mini is my pride and joy. The rollcage is a modified Autopower setup. When I installed the original Autopower rollcage, the mounting plates in the rear passenger floorboards took away all of "scoot room" for the front seats. The cross-bar kept rubbing against the Oricari seatbacks and leaving scratch marks in the paint. So, we took the cage out, chopped it apart, took a bunch of measurements, and welded our new design back together. Instead of using the mounting plates, the cage was welded in the front and in the back.
The bars coming back were bent and then pointed down, so people looking in through the side rear windows would see cage tubing, ie. for show and theft deterrent.
The power of the stereo is *unreal*. The volume can go up to level 40, but at setting 19 my crewcut is blowing! I have the video/live-version of Black Sabbath's "Changes" on constant repeat. It's better than being at the concert, I feel like I'm row 1, seat middle, getting the shivers<g>.

 

Very nice! Looks amazing.

Richard

 

Fracky, very nice setup! A few questions for you...

Which pedals are you using? Was it difficult to fit the dead pedal?

How do you like the Orciari seatbacks? Do they just fit over the OEM seatbacks, or do you pull the stock back off? Did they come in that colour or did you paint them?

Thanks.

 

We have a Hamann/Momo theme for the car. The pedals, dead pedal, shifter and e-brake handle are made by Hamann, but for an M3. We had to make a backing plate to get the dead pedal to fit on top of the factory dead pedal, but everything else was easy to install.
As far as the Oricari seats go, I have mixed opinions. When I ordered my car I wanted the heated, leather seat option, which I *really* like. But, if I had it to do all over again I'd get a set of Momo's, Sparco's, etc. so I could fit harnesses in the car.
The Oricari's were pricey ($495 at the time), plus I had to have them painted (paint, materials, labor, $$$). They installed right over the original seatbacks, so that part was easy. After everything was said and done though, I ended up with some really expensive seats<g>.