With the 2015 season prep underway I wanted to share a quick post about bumpstop tuning, or at least my understanding of it. One of the updates I will be doing to my Mini this year is swapping the rear bumpstops out in hopes of getting the car a little looser, so I thought this…
Special thanks to English Racing for letting me try out their new ACD Tune. I can happily say that this is so far the most effective ACD tune I’ve used, and I’ve tried many. My tune was the 3 mode tune, not their newer 6 map tune. For me, the evo spends about 4-6 months…
Pretty much since Spring Nationals at Lincoln, I decided I would greatly benefit from tinting the windows. No limo tint or anything illegal, but enough to cool down the interior (black car, albeit white roof) & protect me from UV rays. The sun felt like it was 5 ft above me at Lincoln, and in…
Just when I had said no impact from the eLSD system, called EDLC by MINI, I believe I have encountered an issue with it. The two most noticeable times this has happened, the car feels like it completely locks up and goes into “ice mode,” where the car would just plow straight ahead. Both times…
As alluded to, I installed a new suspension on Thursday night (3/27) with the help of the St. Louis MINI Club. I wanted to wait on posting until I got some more driving impressions in as well as an autocross event (more on that later). Thanks to a loaner garage, we were able to take…
Got a lot done yesterday, starting the updates slow: Brand new Enkei RPF1s in Silver, wrapped in beefy Dunlop Z2’s! A while back, I was debating between 205/50 & 225/45 – now that I see the 205s on the 16×7 wheel, I’m glad I went with them. There’s not too much bulge, and the fitment…
After a small debacle of not getting my JCW strut tower brace on time, I finally received and installed my JCW STB today! As luck would have it, it started drizzling as I was installing this piece, so I was a little crabby about everything getting wet. Regardless, it was a straightforward install, especially since MINI USA…
One common complaint about the Craven Dipstick is that it is too hot to touch after the car’s been running. Simple solution: plastidip the handle.
This will probably be one of my most invisible mods lol. I had this done for my evo, and LOVED it. Looks like it’ll look just as clear on black as it did on white. I went to a local clear bra specialty shop here, and the film they used was XPEL Ultimate. This film…
First mod! Cravenspeed Dipstick! I, like many others apparently, have had a difficult time reading the oil dipstick – however, my number one reason for purchasing this dipstick was because I heard the OEM dipstick can actually break – a bit of a nightmare apparently. So, decided to go ahead with this new Cravenspeed dipstick,…
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