1st Gen R53 Cooper S Second best coolant expansion tank?

Seriously? I am self employed, so I "respect" a man getting as much as he can for his products and services. I have no reason to beleive that your products and services are not top shelf. All I did was question whether a coolant tank is worth 200 bucks.

Some people are fine with my prices, and others aren't. I deal with that. I am grateful for the opportunity to present a quote for my services, and if they think it is too high, I take it like a man, and move on. Pull the corn cob out, and deal with the fact that some people will gladly pay 200 bucks for a coolant tank, and some people won't.

CD

 

Why not the Canton tank? It's what I run and have had it for years and years.

 

I guess the answer is its worth it to some people but clearly not to you?
As far as the canton tank? Dunno. They look just like the RMW ones, and thats well suspicious.

 

You don't always get what you pay for...BUT you always pay for what you get. Buy quality (Colin or RMW) and you will be OK

 

Buy from Colin or Jan, and support MINI vendors who are dedicated to the MINI crowd. Or buy Canton and support a generic company who copied someone else's work and slapped their label on it. Choice is yours, but if you do the latter don't be surprised someday if their are no MINI vendors creating new products.

 

Colin and Jan are great people and I will always look to them first when it comes to MINI parts, tuning, and advice. Got Jan's head and tune in 07 and have been working with him since then and just recently finished up our RMW engine install, but truthfully I bought a Canton tank back in 06-07 and RMW wasn't making them until just a couple of years ago. If I was looking for one now I would go with Colin or RMW because they make quality parts and always are there to help me if needed.

 

Looking to find out "level of modification" needed to mount Greene tank.... Before I decide what to get. Any chances a proper "instal manual" available somewhere?
I have no problem supporting True MINI people, but little help before I pay $175 please?

 

I am going to replace my expansion tank. I have been looking around for a while and have decided to go with a tank from Colin. Although there are many tanks out there that will perform adequately, Colin's come with something no other manf (except RMW) supplies---Colin. I was able to get a tank the way "I" needed it, not just 'off the shelf'. That's customer service and worth every penny.

 

Ok so lets cover this a bit better, i know its my fault that I was lacking in shiny pictures!

heres how i did this.



I pull the frame out of the car, drill some holes from the back and use a furniture fastener from the back, I include those with the tank so you can put the fastener though the frame and the frame will still fit flush to the firewall.
Now, you don't have to do it this way, thats just how i decided to do that.
I also found out that you dont need 4 mounting points the top two will do and the lower rings for mounting the factory tank are just fine, Though, i went over board bent those out of the way and put the 4 bolts in.
The only real modification that needs to take place is removing the tab with the threaded rod for the nut on the top of the factory tank.
easily done with a hack saw a file and some spray paint to prevent rust.

 

Colin, how do you monitor level of coolant in your tank? Can you do one in "chilli red"?

 

Just like you do with other none plastic tanks. When they are cool you open then and look inside and check that they are 1/2 full. It's just that easy and I have been doing it that way for 3 or 4 years now.

 

Like dave said, i just open it and look.
Its not like i could ever see though the factory plastic tank anyway.

i pm'ed you back about the finish stuff.

 

Thanks!
I actually found the way to see exactly the level on shitty OEM tank by shining the handheld led lamp on one side and reading the level on the other... But, I will go for aftermarket one.

 

I would've gotten this tank had I not gotten the Canton(which works) long ago. My sketchy memory seems to point to Canton coming out ahead of Jan's, too.
I use a drinking straw as dipstick. Dip, cover the top end, lift & read level.