I figured this would be more suited in the suspension thread as I have been a lurker on here for about a year. Normally I am a post ***** by day when I owned my VW Corrado, but I seem to stick in the shadows now.

Anyways, I purchased my Mini Cooper S in Dark Silver the day after Christmas in 2008. Was the greatest Christmas present I have given myself!!

I wanted to post up a few pics (theyll be up shortly I need to re-install Lightwave since I just installed Windows 7), of my mini that is now on H&R coils and Maxxim (Konig) 18x7.5 with 215/40/18 Falken 512 tires.

One thing that I also wanted to ask was I noticed after coilover install, as most people report anymore, I have the vibration/shimmy when accelerating in lower gears. Im not THAT low, but it seems to have come back since the wheels last night.

One thing that I noted was that the upper strut attachment (for camber) had shifted since I installed the coils. You can clearly see this by the way the nut was holding on the paint, and is now visible when you look at it. I had torqued them to the factory specs....should I lift my car and adjust this back?!

Thanks

 

dang. Well Ill take better pictures later today... Heres a (lame) teaser for now

 

My mini went under surgery again today...

from this:




I need to take better photos! I stopped by the MINI dealer here to say hi to
a buddy of mine.. nothing special

 

Looks great! If course I'm partial to DS!

 

very nice. maybe you can be our new RedBull.. his car was siiiick

 

What happened to Red Bull anyways?

 

he sold everything off his car and sold it last i heard

 

yup :(

 

He just couldnt hang with us big boys

 

you havent seen his other toys. his 'in the meantime' mini alone was something

 

Ive seen his other cars. lol. Its just not the same

 

Looks great!

 

Hey if anyone's interested I'm selling an aerokit just like the above- completely new in box, .... lower price for you!

 

nice looking ride , love the color, if I had to do it over that would be my color choice.

I am looking into some future installs for this spring. For the front bumper install, how was it? Does one need extra (spare) parts for this install. I have heard of extra tabs???

 

Sorry I took so long to respond I never got a notification email saying someone replied! lol.

As far as install it was very straight forward. If you can unscrew and unclip a few plastic pieces its very simple. The hardest part was getting to the bolt that is behind the plastic fender piece...I ended up breaking a clip on the passenger side but thats it.

I used the existing bolts that came from my old front bumper (maybe 6 screws and some push tabs).

The problem I ran into was the bottom lip section had some that I couldnt find..so I took them from the front damn off the original bumper. Easy Cheesy!