Thanks mate you take it easy buddy and glad to see you commenting

It is a mint car but it’s now sold and gone

Cheers mate

No mate have you seen my other video where I set fire to this car 😂😂😂 it was all a joke mate for this channel You didn’t actually believe by coming here I was doing mini did you ???

Man this car is something else man it’s made me not like driving my bmw this is just pure fun everytime I get in something my bmw is lacking

doesnt a normal go kart have wheels?

@@MrShikfootball no

Exactly mate so do I prefer supercharger the new generation won’t know about this thing everyone is turbo crazy these day’s me I’m not like that never liked turbo cars

@@BMWDoctor Exactly! Knowing the early forms of both, the basics ARE better understood, IMO. I'm "old school", late '70's, early '80's. Pre computer control. With computer control only are turbos worth anything. Difference is that with computer control, superchargers are still better. Why manufacturers haven't pushed more that direction boggles my mind.

I have a r52 too ! There a lot fun :)

I love BMW my friend I HATE mini though and I’m not going to lie I really do as most who drive them I have a complete different personality compared to the mini people as most are hippies and not very rich people Something I noticed everywhere whether that be forums or anywhere else But the R53 is a very nice car and quick but not by today’s standards so I’m glad I went back to BMW and got M5 and no more mini for me I would rather have the Audi RS3 over a Mini again I think that’s my next car to join my ranks

@@BMWDoctor I've met some strange people that own Mini's but all the owners I've met that have these R53's seem to add more boost and make them very quick, above average on cars of today. My Jaguar XJR was very fast (0-60 in 4.5 secs) and this R53 is very close to that figure as well now, ... But each to their own I suppose because if we all liked the same cars life would be boring ;-)

Exactly and I agree with you. It would be a boring life indeed R53 is nice car but I like BMW M cars that’s why I own that R53 doesn’t really get noticed like that and people don’t take them cars seriously, but BMW M cars they do !

@@BMWDoctor Only BMW car I liked was the M3 Evolution ... Pretty rare car these days ... Or the other one I liked was the Series 8 (E31) 1990'S .. They had the flip up headlights - Looked great!

Do it yourself Fletcher, theyre not that hard to work on. Im a driveway mechanic and Ive done stuff to this car I would never attempt on anything else. Plus there is so much info out there and so many forums.

5 speeds is all you need for a manual gearbox imo. 6 is better with automatic.

Similar situation

Man insurance on this mate isn’t cheap trust me on that I’m lucky enough now to have trade cover so I can cover all my cars regardless for one cost a year but I don’t know how much it would be it goes by your age , where you live , how long you been driving and all that

willbgaming46 hiya mate... I’ve got an r53 at 17 - first car. I pay £3600 a year for mine. No black box.

probably blown the engine since he moved on to grown up BMW's and stopped making Mini videos =/

@@k12rising lol

15% reduction pulley with work with stock intercooler but always better to just upgrade the intercooler

Yess

19% pulley KAVS motorsport

No no I don’t do dynos I do estimates and I guess this is running about 183bhp right now

And I wouldn’t want to be either I’m TOTTENHAM boy born and bread and proud Don’t associate me with there kind there wasted people down here all living barely on the breadline my kind and there’s ain’t the same I’m very proud of where I come from London made me I definitely wouldn’t want to be associated with being Cornish I’m only here for one reason build myself up and get myself back to my routes I help my old area in London a lot by donating but I don’t donate crap to down here 😉 And trust me I have a lot of money to donate but I use it to put the youths out in the estates getting them into music and paying for them that’s what you guys watching helps me do

@@BMWDoctor only playing mate, I've got a pepper white too. hopefully see out on the road some time

Mate this car is long gone you won’t be seeing me in this 😂 This was sold last year in November it was just for the channel and sold none of my bmw people wanted to see this

Nah mate it’s loud enough lol and in England we have speakers detecting if your exhaust is to loud and they will fine you so I don’t want that it’s perfect for what I need man

@@BMWDoctor yes. I do know that. I was of course joking due to what I cal "fart canning" exhaust that is/was overused here in the US. 😁

Around 185bhp without rolling road it’s hard to tell

Perfect no issues in the last year and drive it and red line it everyday without issue. But bear in mind I overhauled the whole car including supercharger oil , waterpump , thermostat , valve cover , upgraded intercooler , upgraded ignition coils and coil pack. All pulleys and crankshaft pulley and seal done new belts new oil filter housing gaskets all done and oil cooler gasket

MTC INTERCOOLER im working with them and have alot more to fit from them now

No problem mate don’t worry about it

R53 all the way, if you can find a decent one. Becoming a mixed bag now as many have been thrashed merciless/mistreated/badly maintained or inconsiderately modified. Definitely going to see a rise in values of good ones though as they are regarded as the best modern Mini and becoming sought after (particularly later facelift cars with the factory diff). R56 generation are a real mixed bag....in some respects an improvement in others really not at all. The earlier cars with the N14 are generally worth treating like the plague.....over complicated and not reliable....they have a penchant for cam chains, high pressure fuel pumps etc. Cheap to come by now because of the well known risk factor associated with them. The later LCI/facelift cars (believe from mid 2010) with the revised N18 motor were alot better but still not without their problems.....but probably the only R56 Cooper S I'd consider. If I could impart any advice, go for the car that seems best kept/maintained......dont be scared off by high miles if it has heaps of history and big receipts to go with it.....these cars can do big mileage as long as they are properly looked after. Dont be scared off either by some level of modification......reduced pulleys (15/17%), intakes and exhausts are common mods for these and done well bring excellent performance and sound gains. 15% pulleys the sweetspot....if it has a 17% but no intercooler upgrade that's a bit of a no no. Exhausts often end up being aftermarket stainless jobs as the pattern mild steel exhausts tend to be both expensive and poor quality and the OE Mini catback is c.800 quid for the parts alone! I dont think anyone in their right mind would spend that sort of money on an exhaust for it to just rot away once more! The cars to avoid are those that clearly haven't been maintained.....they'll end up just being an unreliable money pit and not worth the time of day.......or alternatively if you buy cheap you'll likely end up putting a few grand into putting it straight.....so you pays your money you make your choice.

It’s me my friend

Go for 19% mate you won’t regret it like I didn’t

15% is the sweet spot really. 17% will give you a few more horses across the rev range but you will need an upgraded intercooler to deal with the heat buildup. Problem with going too big on the pulley reduction is the stress it places on the charger....at 15% reduction you are there or thereabouts at the M45's max RPM's.....also there is a point where the charger goes beyond it's useful efficiency range.....where you're basically trying to get it to generate more boost than it's really capable of doing (given its size/spec etc). With 17+ sized pulleys you'll find low and mid range power is improved as the boost pressure generated across the rev range is that much greater.....but as you reach higher engine speeds the efficiency of the charger tails off and so top end power gets affected. You'll probably tend to find that a car with a 15% pulley (on the stock charger) will make better (or more linear) power towards the rev limit vs the smaller pulleys. Also the smaller the pulley, the more boost.....so as well as the obvious heat increases, you really need to start thinking about fuelling too. These cars do run fairly rich but if you push too hard I have no doubt that without a proper map and injectors you'd soon start leaning it out too much and probably blowing the engine. 15% and nothing else fine, 17%....definitely consider an intercooler and just bear in mind the stress on the SC and the efficiency tail-off. 19% I wouldn't be doing that without an IC, injectors (at least JCW spec) and a decent map personally.....also would want to be sure my supercharger is in A1 health before I did.

No they don’t mate your nuts for 5k I will go buy a 2011 JCW mate mate I can get decent ones all day it depends on what your looking for if your trying to be extra and get extremely low mileage or trying to get a auto then yes they are expensive but if you want one normal then these are not expensive cars at all I find them all day for 1500 the Cooper s JCW holds it’s value

@@BMWDoctor fair enough, market must have gone down for the mini. Was a good few years ago i was looking at one for the mrs.

Yeah man it’s gone down BIG time because of that 100K service and there all approaching it or over it that’s why the price drops it costs 1300 anywhere to have that service basically the price of the car to buy that’s why it ain’t worth it for many people who ain’t gonna do it thereself this car cost me £250 to put right based on I was given most parts for the channel

Man you paid that much for it I wouldn’t have paid that much for a mini mate for bmw I would but not for Mini that’s why I waited until they dropped massively before getting one

That’s the way

😂😂😂😂 never ever will I do that never have never will I’m not a law abiding citizen and never will be !!!