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Not sure how its going to look with the current blue paint, but I bet we are thinking along the same lines.

My vision involves removing all the mechanisms for the soft top too, but that is about as practical as a 3 wheeled Morgan.

 

These T&B cable ties hold in all weather and have a metal lock.

Nothing beats T&B

http://www-public.tnb.com/ps/fulltilt/index.cgi?part=CSS135

 

Oh my, a Union Jack was removed. :confused5:

 

I was getting worried there for a bit.

 

Yup it's 30 MPH for me the entire 11 miles. :devil::ihih:

 

The last picture above is what epic failure looks like.

FYI ~ he slid off (Hellbender) facing the road to towards Fontana and went airborne and hit a tree with his passenger rear quarter panel. That spun him 180 degrees as he went over the edge and hit a tree ( 20 + feet down) head on 6 or 7 feet up with his hood scoop and slid down the tree.

He was not hurt and was only wearing OEM seatbelts and none of the airbags went off.

He did drink a whole bottle of Patr'on that night.

I ran him down to MINI in Atlanta a few days later and the guys at Helix (Eric) got the car up and running and he drove the Dragon a few times and drove the car home to PA on Saturday.

 

Rotors will hold up, but those calipers (outlaw) are going to flex big time--no center cross-member, and a long distance of thin metal in the middle until you get to the more rigid ends. if you hit the track, make sure to flip your pads every now and then to even out the taper.

I had horrible support from Outlaw, I hope your luck is better, Chad probably had an in with them, but at the end if the day I'm done with that company.

 

It did ! His insurance paid over 15 or 16K or more when it was all said and done to have it fixed. :frown2:

He traded it for a WRX.

 

It's why I'm really seriously thinking of buying trailer--Dan makes a fantastic one specifically for the MINI.

 

Looked FUN up to that point. Glad it was only cosmetic.. Now that Blimey has a few battle scares your good to go!!!

 

Be cool if you can ever get to Road America or Blackhawks-I instruct for some of the groups there. Maybe not well, but I do it. The thing with instructing is I learn as much from that as I do from being instructed, both are extremely helpful. Not a whole bunch of MINIs to instruct though, wish there were more. I'm instructing an FRS driver Friday with the Milwaukee Branch of the PCA, should be fun as I've never been in one on the track:

 

You are the LAST person to tell someone that dents are ok.

 

From one Paul to another, I'd like to pick your brain about the Schroth setup you have... my biggest annoyance with my car at this point is that I can't keep my ass in the seat when cornering. Although I'm not a huge fan of a 4-point harness for street use (even with ASM straps), being able to swap to a track-ready harness in a couple of clicks sounds great, and probably better than I could do with the stock seatbelt in place.

Do you still have the custom shopping list from HSM? I'd like to take a peek and see what you bought and why :arf:

 

The Schroth's 4 points work great for me, I don't use them on the street, but 5 or 6 points are better, I'm switching to them as soon as I decide wether I'm keeping this car forever or not.

And Paul--the ABS bleed--thanks for the post about enginuity stuff from a bazillion years ago, it was one of your posts that I referenced when I bought it--rather fork over for the ABS bleed myself than at at the stealer.

 

I run a ton of HPDEs and NEVER failed tech with Schroths, with any group. They are street legal belts for a 2006 and below MINI, they work with the belt tensioners, there is no reason on god's green earth that you can't run in class 2 with them. Class 1 requires cage/harness and at least 5 points. You don't want to run class 1 unless you enjoy being on track with race prepped GT3s....

I'm instructing with the Milwaukee PCA tomorrow....if you're going five or six point, that's where they get strict with the proper seat, harness bar and at least a 4 point bar.

 

If I'm gonna turn into a nutter and buy seats, I may as well get a bar... And strip my interior... And put 6-points in... And mount a fire extinguisher...

Oh boy.