2nd Gen JCW Most liked posts in thread: New Mini Owner 2009 MINI JCW With A Few Questions

That supra sized turbo in a mini is beautiful. Is that and R53 because the engine looks a little older than a r53 but im a noob so i could be wrong

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Cute and girly until it two steps and throws a godzilla supra sized flame out the hood and pops your ears.

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So after getting this little bad boy and loving it (before buying it finally i test drove a WRX, Genesis Coupe, and Focus ST.) it now made me curious, ive seen it for R53 but would a Omex or Wot Box work with the R56

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Yup, for now the R56 is good but i have a friend that has access to Adesa looking for a R53 for me so i can have a project car and make the R56 a daily. But the ST was really nice, except i like the interior of the Mini more (especially since the Mini has the winter package, i enjoy my heated seats) plus i really really really enjoy the exhaust sound of the Mini JCW way more, has the perfect amount of growl with poping sounds. The ST was a fair amount quicker but, after having a great sales person who let me play with both for a while, i still feel like the Mini could still have it on cornering. Also thankfully a Mini JCW is and extremely rare car to see around me and i know way too many people with a ST and WRX and talk about them way too much.

I already have an appointment at a local tuning shop called BrenTuning who will clean the valves for a nice price. But so far my road map for this thing is suspension, then minor engine mods like an intake just because pushing more boost or strapping a bigger turbo on it seems a tad bit too risky for my liking

Also since i know on my Mazdaspeed and WRXs if i put a BOV on them they run too lean, is it bad to strap a BOV onto on a R56 or is its kinda alright. Just more a curiosity question.

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I kinda figured, like with my Speed3, a BOV would send thrm into limp mode or make it run really lean.

Mini S i should say. Locally around me its a disgusting amount of civics that have been trade to every one locally, has an anoying exhaust that sounds like some one bolted a coffe can to it and "its a b20b with an ebay turbo and equal length headers and pops vtec hard so its has to be a race car". Plus its also a lot of WRX, Mustangs, and Miatas (i have to deal with Haggard Garage people since they're 15 minutes away from me so miatas are the god car around here...) You rarely see a Mini drive around or even go to a meet.

But i though a JCW did come with a few extra things besides just a badge, like exhaust and intake?

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Sorry if this is a complete scrub questions, still new to the mini world. But where precious models before the R56s marked as a John Cooper Works or did theu just go by thr basic Cooper S?

Its horrible, there is way too many and the fart cans need to stop. Thankfully the handful of S2k owners around here arent dumb enough to put a exhuast like that on their car. But race car civics are the bane of existence around here since apparently theyre a race car, they all have extreme body rot but theyre counted as a clean car and apparently they also like to slam the living hell out of them by cutting their springs.

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So im so loving this car. But one thing im slowely getting concerned by is for what i thibk is the annoying timing chain rattle of doom. Are there any good videos of what it truely sounds like. The engine is at 75k and sold by a Mini dealer so i would think they would have replaced it before sale but i rather act fast sincd thanks to MA thry have to cover issues withing 90 days.

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