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Nice job Teddy. Next weekend I will make the outside paint look that good. Have a safe trip.

 

Where does one get these metal jack points?

 

Same here in GA. It's awful.

 

Nothing new with the MINI, she sat home while we went to Birmingham for a softball tournament. My fielding was kinda shitty Saturday but batting was on point Hit a homer! That night I ended up with food poisoning, puking and s******g my brains out till about 4 am. I didn't play Sunday.... but did sleep from 3 in the afternoon till about 5 this AM.

 

I may go this route. Thanks!

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I hate those plastic ones. Actually had mine pop off while jacking it up over the weekend.

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Take the plastic one and have someone copy it in solid aluminum. Maybe CNC you 4 of them. Then drill a hole in the center and use very strong toggle bolts to mount it where the old one was. That’s all the TSW ones are.

 

I may still clean the injectors. When I get on it, no problem getting to redline. Boost is at 17 psi at redline. Get in the driveway and park, then it starts to sputter and bog down, almost like choking, then smooths out. I dont think it's the pump. Starts fine and all that. Just when it is idling it'll do the sputter and irradic idling. Not seeing any vacuum leaks. Upstream O2 bounces up and down like it should and downstream is smooth. Any ideas?

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Fuel filter could be really dirty and causing an issue when idle-ing, or the fuel pump may be at the end of its life.

 

I agree. Hoping fuel filter. Just changed that last month. I'll look at pumps too. Easy fix I hope.

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I picked up and had had my fuel pump replaced a 2 years ago with the one Colin sells.

https://www.greeneperformance.com/collections/mini-oem-performance-parts/products/fuel-pump

 

My duct work is permanently out since it's no longer used, still the issue is that damn expansion tank. The stealership actually cracked that little plastic T fitting below the tank during an oil change and replaced it, super glad it didn't happen to me. My 12' doesn't have a notch either, but I always lay a rag on that radiator support thing so the socket extension doesn't rub the paint any more than the previous owner did.

 

It wasn't a demon, it was Z Germans They love to over-complicate EVERYTHING, I grew up with a pack of them in the north woods and am like 60% German (2nd gen American). It also could be yet another way to get folks to pay someone to change their oil instead of DIY. Sonsabitches.