1st Gen R53 Cooper S Most liked posts in thread: For my next trick: Water Methanol Injection

Ya think!

There is a reason the cheapest option is the cheapest! I got by with a cheap system... After tracing and sorting quite a few issues. But in the end, I will keep the tank... Thats it! The rest will be an HFS 3!

Just to clarify things here, and not to be a swinging Richard... You have an RMW engine badge of honor, yet you want to do everything cheap as possible (up to and including, teaching yourself to tune with ByteMyAssTroniK) where you hit in the head as hard as I was at some point, or did that just come with the car?

 

Yep thats me.

It is good that you are learning, and even trying things your own way. I can respect that because I did the same when I first started really tearing into my MINI. And just like now there where people trying to give me advise to get me off of the path of failure I was setting myself up for. I didnt want any part of what they where telling me at the time, because "I knew better" and wanted to do things my way.

When my engine finally quit putting up with all my "great ideas" and died, I began to realize who was actually right all along. I began to see things differently, and understood why they where being so hard on me. Its been 3 YEARS, since my failure, guess what... My car still isn't running! Only because I am not going into things halfassed, and I am not going the cheap route. I've already proven to myself the cheap way doesn't work.

Sooner or later, you will know what I am talking about, and realize why I have been such a D|CK... Really just trying to help you out, so you dont end up with your car on stands for the next 3 years.

 

Nice. Glad to see you kept an open mind with your car, you're definitely headed in the right direction.

 

Good luck with your Meth project. I went with the Howerton kit and it was worth the money to run 100% VP M1 meth and have been running it for years without any issues.

I also had have Jan /RMW tune my car for 100% because you really won't gain much power from a 50/50 mix.

The Howerton pump is made by Aquamist and will work fine running 100 % they just have to say they do not recommend 100% for warranty reasons.

 

In the trunk / boot on the drivers side and it holds about a gallon.

I also take a 5 gal VP jug to the Dragon because we run all week you never want to runout of Meth when you run race fuel. :devil::ihih:

Also meth helps start nice Bon fires at night. :mad5: :lol: with the aide of Sterno. :cornut:

 

Watch out for that A-Pillar Airbag or that well made gauge pod could become part of your face if you are ever in a front collision accident.

 

When I did mine we left the tethers in place. We also did some back of a napkin figuring moving the cover around on the tethers to check range of motion. So long as one uses the tethers there is little chance of getting smacked in the face by the pillar cover.

 

You can rewire my car when you're done

 

Nice clean work.

 

Looking good and your are making great progress. Keep posting the cool pictures.

 

this is very interesting. Glad you are posting it so we may learn.

 

Looks sharp.

 

We just wanted you to be safe. Have fun wiring all that up tomorrow I am sure it will all like great when it's done.