Received this from Turner Motorsport today – two stickers to run on the rear windows per our agreement. Not a bad deal to start a relationship with a company as successful as Turner Motorsport! As of 2/23/2015, Turner Motorsport and I have amicably ended our sponsorship relationship. Best of luck to them!
Received a few parts today and the other day: Mainly, Bilstein struts! Somehow, not sure how this happened, but I only received the FR, FL, and RL struts. Confirmed on the shipping slip as well, just the three. Must have been a mixup somewhere, and thankfully I don’t need these right away (it snowed again…
Everything with the MINI is caught up now blog-wise. Parts ordering has finally begun in order for me to complete my build: JCW Springs and FSB, matched to VIN have been ordered from MINI of South Atlanta Hotchkis Competition Rear Sway Bar & Red Schroth Harness have been ordered from Way Motor Works Bilstein dampers…
Car is all wrapped up. Will only be using it on nice days out (no salt) this winter.
Some under the car pics. Struggling to put miles on the car – I think I’m right around 360 miles, so haven’t changed the oil or filled the tank yet even. Doing a moderate break-in, been WOT a few times, and went to 5k rpms recently. Will continue that until 1000mi, then do somewhat of…
After having the new MINI for about a week now, I can definitely comment that everything feels “tighter” in the suspension (not in the understeering sense). Most likely this is due to brand new bushings all around the suspension compared to my ’08 with nearly 100,000 miles on it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it…
Bought a brand new 2013 MINI Cooper built to order to replace my 2008 MINI Cooper for the 2014 autocross season! The main reason for doing this was to have the car spec’ed exactly the way I wanted it, and particularly so that it could have a chance at being competitive at SOLO. The old…
9/27/2013 signed the papers 9/30/2013 on order Mini Lounge 10/1/2013 Scheduled for Production 10/7 – vehicle is in body shop 10/8 – vehicle is in paint shop, estimated completion today 10/9 – vehicle released to carrier, awaiting transportation to port of exit (awaiting transport) 10/10 – vehicle is being transported to the port of exit…
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