Year 2002
Make MINI
Model Cooper S
Color Electric Blue/White
History
Started life in April 2002 in Pennsylvania as the doctors' wifes' city runabout car. I bought the car in June '07, left it stock for 3 months, and then starting making it my own.
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Exterior
*Lamin-X blue tinted headlights and smoked side markers
*Cooper side grills and rear bumper trim pieces
*Shaved "Cooper S" badge on boot
*Clear CHMSL
*"GrassrootsMotorsports.com" windshield banner proudly displayed
*Removed rear wiper, motor, washer line
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Interior
*Sparco Evo [black] seats w/custom mounts
*Autopower "Race" 4-point roll bar painted Electric Blue
*Braille 15 pound battery mounted underneath driver seat
*Schroth Profi II FE ASM 6-point [black] harnesses
*No rear seats, rear interior, or headliner
*All exposed sheetmetal painted Black Night Metallic
*'06 OEM shift knob [LOL]
*Euro shelf with headlight manual-level dial
*Relocated RKE
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198wHP & 173wLb/Ft SAE peak on MonkeyWrenchRacing's DynaPack
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Suspension
*Mini-Madness Cro-Mo front control arms with spherical bearings
*R56 aluminum rear trailing arms
*ALTA rear control arms [upper and lower]
*TSW-tuned KW V3 coilovers
*KW competition "light" springs 400Lb/In front & rear]
*Powergrid front and ALTA rear sway-bar drop-links
*H-Sport Competition front & rear sway-bars
*Helix13 R56 rear damper adapters
*Ryephile-built dropped front spindle
*Ryephile-designed front suspension pivots and relocated steering rack
*Powerflex steering rack and rear control arm polyurethane bushings
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