What did you have on before ? And do you do any track days ?

@@DamoDrives I had the AP coilovers from Orranje. I ran them for about a year. They're not the most expensive but they wern't cheap either. Maybe they would be good for track days but I just cant deal with bracing myself when some uneven road or a bump/pothole when I'm trying to enjoy myself down a country lane. I think they made the car have less grip aswell as it would spin its wheels when accelerating and abs would kick in when braking into fast corners . I think my current setup is quicker on the road than the coilovers by quite a margin as i feel confident with the car and can feel what its doing. Tried the coilovers on a number of setting before giving up on them and selling them on ebay for half what I paid for them. P.S if your looking for better pickup change your crank pulley and alternator pulley for the +2% and +5% ones. The power stays the same but the pick up is really impressive. Sounds like all your power is so far up the rev range with all your mods that your lacking anything much down low where you need it when your out on the road ;-)

It is a very good car for the track and surprisingly good for the public roads. I would not want to daily it mind you 😂

Thank you for the advice, was fine when driving as lots of cool air but as soon as you stop it shot up so not doing anything until I get it fixed

Good advice about the 2-stage fan resistor, these can easily and cheaply be replaced. The temperature shouldn't really be shooting up, even without the fan running... The first stage fan doesn't usually come on until 105°c, second stage at 112°c.... Normal running temperature is roughly 88-90°c. Changing your thermostat and adding new coolant and bleeding the system thoroughly could make a huge difference in running temperature. It really helped with mine. Hope this helps, keep up the good work Damo... 👍🏻

I don’t know as I purchased the car as you see it pretty much. Only change was a decent fast road setup. Having it remapped again as it’s not quite right at 1320 mini in a few weeks so a few ££££

Thanks for the tip will try that and see what happens, let’s hope it’s a cheap repair ; although nothing on a Mini seems to be cheap lol

Which car are you talking about ? The car with race seats and Roll cage or my car

Also good to see that despite the controversy on the r53 page this video has done well views-wise. Lack of recent R53 content on youtube as a whole IMO so good to see.

Have not been very well recently so getting back to full health and will be more mini content. Trying to arrange to go to 1320 Mini for a new map on the car and for them to give it good look over as it does not feel right (I am Hoping some time next month for this) not sure on next steps as it depends on what 1320 say. Some small things need doing like new wing mirrors and possibly wrap the roof white.

I’m going to do a full video on the car in the next couple of weeks

@@DamoDrives thank you.

Guessing you mean my white wheels ! If so Fifteen52 turbomac 8j Et30

Yeah exactly, they are awesome. Cheers!

They don’t make them anymore

Thanks for that , I had a look and good not see anything loose

Driven an r56 with KW club sports and they were amazing

Well spotted , did not notice until near the end of the filming

An Ultra gauge , a huge amount of information on there but just have the most important read outs

Sir, you are correct 🙌,

I don’t mind truthful opinions as I can do something about that and hopefully 1320 can sort some of the issues but I won’t be buying an LSD or upgrading the coilovers due to budget. Get the car to where I think it should be. Not sure about the design, will ask him next time I see him

Thanks 🙂 It's always a worry to know if mods will alter things for better or worse. There's a fine line between making our cars more fun and making them undriveable it seems

Purchasing a car with all of the work done I am unable to get a true history of the source of the parts, who fitted them etc. not suggesting there is anything wrong with them but gives you piece of mind. Hot of the press car is booked in to 1320 for 10th Feb for inspection, leak down test , oil check , rolling road , road test, drivability test, remap car to what is required then another dyno test.

They're sure to sort it! My 08 R52 is going in to Mini Worxx nr Tewkesbury on Friday for a full supercharger service, -15% pulley and a remap, I'm hoping for some extra fun out of Kirsty the mini (originally named after a girl we knew from Newcastle who used to like to take her top down at every opportunity, but when I found what mpg it does, she's often now called 'thirsty' Kirsty 😉)

Having had some work done on the car and a faulty part we have managed a 0-60 (2 up) in 6,3. More recently have had a new map and power is up to 201 whp so would expect that to drop slightly (maybe 6.1) considering a stock Cooper S is 7.4 thats a good increase

@@DamoDrives I could definitely do better than that with my completely stock r53 with 227,000km. I’m not even tryna razz ya.

Your stock R53 cooper S you can get 0-60 less than 6.2

You missed of Brazilian built engine 😂 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9yKlrdq2KvaiWQ.html

Actually it's a Chrysler,bmw,Rover engine. That's why it's called a 'Tritec' co developed with 3 companies