wow, sweet car and nice wheels!!!

 

Hey thanks, and it was mainly your car that sold me on getting the m7's...as I liked the way those sat the best.

 

Eibach springs with Koni Sport struts and the ride is incredible!

 

saakey looking good!

 

Hi Saakey,
Your car is looking really good.

What size wheels are they? they look like 18's. are they 215/35's or something else? rubbing?

If possible could you take a picture for us with the front wheel straight? interested to see the gap with the fenders of the front wheel.

Cheers.

 

Hey thanks guys . The wheels are 18's...I'm getting slight rubbing in the left rear around certain corners and some bumps. I do have 215/40/18 tires...and am wondering if 215/35 would make a difference. But I liked having that slight bit of extra cushion (as much as i can get anyway ) under me. But honestly the rubbing isn't that bad. I think I can live with it...I also haven't had an alignment yet...maybe that would help.
I'll post a different picture with wheel straight as soon as I can.

 

side...with wheel straight

 

^^ very tastefully done.

 

I love the superleggera's.

 

Methman,
Nice MINI! Do you get any rubbing with a 7.5 wide wheel and that lowering combo? Those wheels are teh hotness!

 

nice Sakey, pure beauty

 

Thanks y'all ...now if i could just keep 'er out of the way of all the pot holes, we'd be golden.

 

Saakey - exactly the picture i was looking for, thanks a bunch! The car looks awesome, and the M7 springs sit really well.

 

Thanks! No rubbing at all! What an improvement for not a tremendous amount of money!

 

Sitting on H&R cup Kit

 

since when does any company make a cup kit for the MINI!?!?!?!

I need the kit!!!

 

Koni Sport Springs

and.....



An H&R Sway Bar, hehe

 

Whats a cup kit??

 

Sorry not the Cup Kit, its the RSS Club Sport Coil Over

 

Damn man, dont tease me like that!!!

I cant afford coil overs, so cups would be a godsend on a Cooper!


I still get anygry cause they make them for just about every car BUT mini's, lol

 

What is a Cup kit? Sorry for my ignorance....and I really don't feel like researching....just a simple basic answer would be more than appreciated.

-Cody

 

Cup Kit on my old BM




Cup Kit by H&R comes with springs and struts and is like $500-600 you use a lot of your stock parts, strut hat, bump stops etc and it just slams the car.

The pic above is ~2.2" drop all around.

 

Nice, but does it help in performance like coilover's do? I'm guessing no if a cup kit is $500-600 and coilovers are $900-3000+.

-Cody

 

Yes it does help, stiffens up the car a good amount. I used them for one autocross season then ended up moving, then getting rid of the car to get my first mini.

It doesn't help as much as a nice set of coilovers. But it is better than stock.

 

agreed, it is a good alternative for coilovers, helps the handling a lot, but coilovers are a little better. It is like having Bilstein/H&R combo, we know they work well, but not as functional as c/o kits.