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Car looks great man! It's inspring. I'm still working on the performance end... 15% Cravenspeed pulley and last night's install of my Alta CAI. Cat back exhaust is in the mail. Ebay cheapo..not expecting much but it was worth a shot for $219. For now. On the exterior side I do have the look-a-like JCW grill on the way too. But I may send it back and hold out for the real deal...not sure. Got me some Matte black plasti dip...but it's cold here in NY still. Gotta wait for now.
definitely worth the hassle to fit the aero grilles, yea it's freezing here in buffalo. High of -2 this sat...
definitely worth the hassle to fit the aero grilles, yea it's freezing here in buffalo. High of -2 this sat...
Man, I'm about 5 hours southeast of you near Utica. I'm seeing -17 overnight for Saturday. Brrrrr...
Digging the rims you posted. Thinking about plasti-dipping mine matte black w/ satin finish. At the same time blackin out the other chrome on the car. Just waiting for the weather to break.
soo many mods...soo little time..and money. Sigh...
Shoot me some pictures of what you have as far as the wheels go. (PM me and I'll shoot you my cell #). Every Saturday morning, I hang out at my friends wheel repair shop. I can get you a quote. He does everything from Hyundai to Lamborghini wheels. I'm in the middle of a complete refurb of some R98's. The next pics show what I was playing around with. I'm not going to go with this finish for the center but I wanted to see how it would look.
Other wheels I've done.
Never seen r98's like that, very different wheel now.
Car looks great man! It's inspiring.
I'm still working on the performance end... 15% Cravenspeed pulley and last night's install of my Alta CAI. Cat back exhaust is in the mail. Ebay cheapo..not expecting much but it was worth a shot for $219. For now.
On the exterior side I do have the look-a-like JCW grill on the way too.
But I may send it back and hold out for the real deal...not sure.
Got me some Matte black plasti dip...but it's cold here in NY still. Gotta wait for now.
you have any more shots of your car? looking for some more r98 r53 shots so i can get an idea of how they will look.
These are the only other shots I have atm. They where the dealers photos. Been waiting for the weather to break so I can take my own. -21 This a.m. and the power went out for 3 hours.
thanks, that royal gray is awesome, I looked at one but it unfortunately was in too rough of shape to buy.
thanks, that royal gray is awesome, I looked at one but it unfortunately was in too rough of shape to buy.
Yea, I'm really happy with the color combo. I did have to bring it back to them and have them put the correct tail lights in the car. If you notice it had the wrong ones in it. I had no backup lights.
It's a very clean car for the most part and it spent most of it's life in a State without salted roads thankfully.
Ordered some LEDs for my interior and my license plate lights. Bought them on eBay for a total of $26 shipped. Supposed to be error free lights so for the price I'll try it out.
Yea I really love Royal Gray. Come to find out there was a small collection of the caps in the glove compartment. So I squared that away pretty quick. Have extras to boot, thankfully.
Good to know where to get more when I need em. Thanks.
Yea, they must have gave u extras , make sure they clip down or hit them with a dab from a glue gun.
Glue gun sounds like a good idea. I didn't get the racks themselves with the car so I don't expect I'll ever use it. Might as well make sure they don't fall off.
Glue gun sounds like a good idea. I didn't get the racks themselves with the car so I don't expect I'll ever use it. Might as well make sure they don't fall off.
Yep glue gun it , two dabs and it will be the insurance they hold ,. I have not tested them at over 100mph+
Ordered some LEDs for my interior and my license plate lights. Bought them on eBay for a total of $26 shipped. Supposed to be error free lights so for the price I'll try it out.
If those give you any issues I got some off of Amazon from the seller "cutequeen". No errors and they're all spot on as far as color matching goes.
color matched to hids? I'll keep that in mind hopefully I won't have issues.
Tried to get some pictures for you. The running lights look a bit orange because it's catching the light from the amber half that's the blinker obviously.
Tried to get some pictures for you. The running lights look a bit orange because it's catching the light from the amber half that's the blinker obviously.
those do look nice, much brighter than the oem lights.
Hey ecs, is there leds for the door handles available? Can't find them on your site.
No ziza for that.
For the door handles stock has MINI orange / red leds built in for 7/2004+ cars. You would have to tap a line and run a wire from the power turn on from the lights to make them work , its an old school gen 1 MINI mod from the 2005 days.
Forgot you have an 05' , unfortunately no part number for the LED itself. Comes as a whole part, i would see why its dim. Connection or maybe the led slid out of the mount or something weird.
