As many of you know I recently had a catless Evolve Downpipe installed and had a local shop, VS Motorsports (No longer open) flash my R56 Mini Cooper S. Well I was not able to take any pictures during the install, BUT the good news is my cousin just recently picked up a R56 Mini Cooper and I got to snap some pictures.

The crazy part of this is that he went ahead and purchased both the Catless and HiFlow Downpipes. He was not sure he could bare driving it catless (pissed off wife and whining kids haha)

So here are some pictures:

Top is Catless and Bottom is Hi-Flow Evolve Downpipe

Evolve Engraved into the downpipe

Measurement of Evolve Catless Downpipe:

Outlet side of Evolve Catless Downpipe

Portion that connects to Turbo:

Evolve Hi-Flow Downpipe:

Another Picture of measurement of Hi-Flow Dowpipe:

Close up of welds:

Evolve Hi-Flow Downpipe and Evolve-R

Evolve-R


We placed our order through Evolve with there US contact (pm me for his info) Shipping was really quick as well, we made payment and they arrived very quickly.

Overall, the downpipes are awesome, they seem very well built and the beads of the welds are very nice and penetrate all the way through. Hopefully we will be installing one of the two this weekend. We have already sent Evolve our DME file and hopefully get a new and improved tune on Monday, I will update this thread with more pictures.

 

Can't wait to see the progress. Great buy!

 

Why did he buy two down pipes? I wouldn't mess with the stock down pipe without a tune.

Don't forget to wrap that thing with some heat wrap, cheap and works well

 

Can't wait to hear more. The welds are beautiful.

 

I ceramic coated my Evolve Downpipe the other day.

 

he purchased both to see what he can handle driving around daily, he has a wife and kids and he rather not upset them and deal with hearing that the car is too loud or too much drone. They will be ceramic coated and he has has the evolve-r which he should receive a tune shortly

 

Evolve is a fantastic stand up company. I've had their tune on my MINI for a year and it's **** hot!

 

I bought the catless DP from you last year and had it mated with the ALTA exhaust (no 2nd cat) on my 07 S. It was surprisingly quiet even when I got on it. At the same time it was a very good DP IMO. I might just get tempted and mate it with the JCW exhaust. I've seen/heard the videos on YouTube.

 

Very nice pieces. Excuse my naivety, but what is the advantage of coating/wrapping the DP? Is it to reduce temps in the engine bay, increase durability, or . . . ?

If it would significantly reduce temps under the bonnet, I'd be interested in having my manifold and DP ceramic coated.

Any good coaters in Southern California?

 

It really depends, on this unit there is no point, from my understanding stainless steel parts do not necessarily need it. I could be wrong, but that is what I have been told. He is doing this because hes likes to keep his stuff pretty and really **** about it. Other parts like steel will be worth it because the high temp paint will retain the temp better

I would not recommend wrapping it if you are dd, moisture can get trapped in it and start to rust the material

 

I don't see these on their website. How did you find them?

 

pm me and I can send you the US distributors emails

 

Is his name Jaime? LOL If so I have it.

 

soon planning on getting a tune from them

 

Me too.

 

nice nice what mods you have on your mini? what mini you have? sorry for all the questions lol

 

no his name is not jamie

 

how much you are paying for your tune ? or how much did you pay for it?

 

799, they have it on sale right now

 

Don't want to clutter the thread but...

2007 cooper s with JCW package and brakes.

Helix intercooler, Dejon cold side intercooler to turbo, dejon inlet, hot side muffler delete, alta intake, forge bypass with boost control solenoid, BC coils, cattless down and JCW exhaust, and currently an AP. Plus crap I forgot...

 

jesus lol 799 :O

 

god dam lots of money and work put in to this ride

 

its definitely worth it for me, you add on parts and you want to be able to gain power with the money you spent. Running there tune with dp made such a difference

 

Wife's ride, mine is....

 

Exactly, can't wait to get the evolve tune going.