Just bought an 03 Mini S for cheap!

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    Chuck....

    Texting with a mirror again I see....:D
     
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    Seat belts save lives. The cuts on her head came from when she unbuckled herself and fell on the ceiling of the car. I don't want to even think if my son was there.
     
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    Glad she is ok.
     
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    A few posts back before the discussion about the Volvo you mentioned the PTO side of your Supercharger was dry so you filled with oil.....if it was dry when you pulled it off there is a high probability the S/C seal is gone on that end...if so you'll need to keep an eye on it as the oil will get sucked out again in little time and then the gears will wear.
     
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    Is there a way to replace this seal and those gears you're talking about without tearing into the sc?
     
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    No. Sorry.
     
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    Mini got rally lights!
     
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    It looks great!
     
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    Very nice.
     
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    I did a rollover in an Audi TT several years ago, and it wasn't pleasant at all. Glad to hear she is ok.
     
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    Looking good!
     
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    Look what my wife got as her replacement from the volvo. Got her last month.
    Sticking to that German engineering!
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    Also minis getting ready for race season. 2 more weeks!
     
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    Got my race magnets. [​IMG]

    And here's some more pics of her. I tried taking some cool ones but the s4 doesn't take good quality photos at night.
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    Hi guys, so this thread has been known to be my blog so to speak. It's been a long time since I have posted here. I have some bad news, I did not make it to 300k mile marker. I'm just shy of 290k and lost almost all compression in cylinder 4. So I pulled the head and found too many cracks to count. Some going half way up the spark plug threads, some over to the water jackets, most going under the valve seats. The head is garbage without saying. My valves, springs, retainers are all in perfect shape. The valves had less than a thousandth of wear on them so I may sell them to recoup some cost down the road. I have found a solid rebuilt head for 750$ I think I'll be buying. It's complete with rocker assembly and cam. Which I won't have a need for(I'll move my rockers and cam over). Here are some pictures of my busted head. [​IMG][​IMG]
    Looks like all my cylinders were being steam cleaned. My compression test was 125/120/130/60 psi. The photo of the valve seats was at cylinder 4. My bottom end seems fine. I just had the pan off and replaced my timing assembly and oil pan gasket as well as oil pump, I put a new belt on too. My boost went from 14 psi to 18psi where it should be given my mods. Then the head went. I'm guessing I had these cracks for a while and must have had my timing off a tooth or two and when I redid my timing I gained back my power which pushed the limits of the already weakened head causing it to finally crack all the way through. I had combustion gases coming out of my oil filler cap when I was compression testing cylinder 4 as well as air bubbles popping up in my coolant reservoir. The others I didn't have combustion gas emitting from the oil filler cap but I never took the water reservoir cap off until cylinder 4. So I'm thinking I probably would have had the same bubbling in the coolant from the others as well.

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    Also the coating on my supercharger turbines is coming off. Is this something that should be addressed immediately or wait until it fails?

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    I spoke to Jan from rmw and to Mike at thumper heads. Both heads are 2200-2600$ and if I know I'd be happy with either head. But if I snag this stock rebuilt head for 700 then that leaves money for the alta light bar bracket, an oil cooler, a cheap header like Megan and a wideband gauge. Plus I'll probably run a oil catch can. Not to mention the gaskets and head bolts will run me another 120 or so. So there's a huge variation in costs. My cars fun for now anyways. If I go with a BV ported head I'd want it tuned and I'd have to worry about leaning out with my stock injectors and my oem header would be a huge restriction. I also plan to have my CSF radiator repaired and reinstalled once again. It blew probably from my combustion gases over pressurizing the cooling system..

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    I was going to get the Alta light bar. A few people here have them and like them. But I went with this one form Outmotoring and really like it.

    http://www.outmotoring.com/mini-cooper/mini-cooper-driving-light-brackets.html

    As you can see from my avatar I went from 4 lights to 2. Before I had the ones that attach to the upper grill. Don't use those, they are worthless. The ones from outmotoring are very solid. You can add 4 if you like. the only down side is you have to cut the grill but they still look good.
     
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    While the functionality is nice I plan to keep mine all level with each other and looks like I'd have to buy two of those kits to mount my 4 hella 500s

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    You can keep them all one level but yes you would have to buy two kits. My old mounts would let the lights shake when you hit bumps these don't do that, they are very sturdy. The down side is they cost more than the Alta.
     

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