Sort of a new member here. Joined in Sept. Had a mind fart and it tooka friend of mine sid, aka "MISFITOY" to remind me to be true to my Mininess. So here is a shot of the car with her PIAA 18's and other stuff.

Chris

 

Very nice car, great style. I like your custom grill (see my sig )


Are you the one who hooked sid up with his rally light brackets? If so, i would love to get a pair

 

I fabricated my bracket last spring. I'm doing a bit more modification to it but basically it's completed. Sid purchased his from a source. You'll have to ask him which one. I've see them and they are very nice. Too small for my lights (depth wise). Ask him or perhaps he'll see this and give an answer.

Oh, yeah..thanks on the grill. One of the first things I did when I got the car home. I used Vinyl tape type material (3M). It's been on a year and a half and it's holding up well. No chips etc. In fact most think it's painted. I opted for a semi gloss appearance. How do you do yours? Also changed to the 05 (smooth grill). Not on the images. I just changed over last fall. I like it so much better than the "grooved one". Easier to clean and goes along much better with the headlight chrome trim section.

Chris

 

I had a few spare grills lying around so i just sprayed mine black, but i have been looking for impact resistant vinyl for some time now (mine only has 1 chip, but im bound to get more ) ....your vouche for 3M is great

apparently great minds think alike because i changed over to the 2005 model grill as well...I'm slowly shaving and smoothing my whole car

 

Looks great

This may be a stupid question, but aren't you afraid of someone cracking your driving lights when backing into a space in front of you?

 

cxrk- As soon as I saw that pict, I as going to say... MISFITOY?!

Nice job on the install. Looks great.

 

you park near other people........LOL

 

Now that's funny!

Naw, I don't worry about it too much.. I'm so used to dealing with parking "selectively" My TR6 is bumperless... Much cleaner lines... But any impact will leave a mark! But car designers..well, what can you say? The "Look" is all important!!!

 

Thanks!! To be take a little shine from "MISFITOY".... I put the lamps on last spring/Summer. Oh, what a surprise I had when I found new lamps sprouting from his bumper over xmas! It's all good! I figure if other people like it enough to do a varient on their own, the idea must not have sucked!! I liked his install... Enough that I am going to modify my existing bracket.. See, we learn from each other for a better end result!

CXRK

 

Chris's lamps are HUGE He had to custom weld extra heavy duty brackets to hold them double D ***** steady...talk about high beams Now we got Josh doubling up with ideas of his own using the same brackets I used. Come Thursday evening at Fontana village...put your sunglasses on

 

Where in michigan are you guys? Maybe i will have to make a trip up there to check it out

 

Sid and I are in the Detroit area..He's on the "East" side and I'm on the "West". Yeah, Sid..."D"s...Ummmmmm. I like large round pleasing objects.

As for learning from each other...Hmmmm, Always loved that splitter Sid!!

Hint!!

 

That is a friggin' sharp car.
Dig the placement of the driving lights. How was that set up?

 

Hey Chris, I guess I do owe you some credit. For some reason, I thought your lamps were mounted lower. Now I see we're really at the same height. Josh is going to put his closer together.

 

Thanks for the compliment! I fabricated a a joined bracket with four attachpoints that mount to the bumper. Two of them are threaded inserts and two are tapped in. I think I will modify it in the spring and add two more "L" sections to mount to the forward section of the bumper as well as underneath. Overkill maybe, but the lamps are fairly heavy and I would like to get as little vibration as possible. I have some now and after seeing Sid's new brackets I see a way to resolve it. Why I didn't think of this earlier I'll never know! So far everything seems kosher. PIAA'a wiring kit was excellent and I wired as close to "invisible" as I could when you open the bonnet. They DO light up the night though..Love it!

 

No big deal Sid!! Thanks for the acknowledgement! Of all the MINI's I've seen for some reason I had not seen the lamps in another location...Yet. And I liked the look of the lamp location on the Classic Mini. Since I never had the chance to put them on my Orange car, I wasn't going to miss out on my 03'. I also like the proportion of the larger lamps in relation to the headlamps. The ones mounted to the grill just never did it for me.... I'm just careful not to park by "Brail" .

Josh is putting them closer together? Better watch it....Depending..they may look like buck teeth

 

I wasn't going to tell him your thoughts but since you just did...