it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car and here's this week's winner,
this is my 2005 Mini Cooper S, I purchased this car a little over three
years ago as my first car and I enjoy driving it every day, now these cars are
kind unreliable and they're pretty high-maintenance, but they're really fun
to drive, when I purchase this car it was pretty much stock except the head and
intake and it had an exhaust, but over my ownership I started to modify it little
by little as my money would allow, I'm pretty happy with where the car is at
right now, it makes a decent amount of power and it handles really well let me
show you some of the bits I have done to the car
now this is the r53 generation mini cooper which comes with a supercharged
1.6 liter iron block motor that was designed by chrysler, this car from
factory came with a hundred sixty-eight horsepower at the flywheel and 162
foot-pounds of torque, however my r53 is estimated to make over 250 horsepower at
the wheels and around 195 foot pounds of torque, to achieve this power I have a
cold air intake, a GP intercooler, I have a 15% supercharger reduction pulley
which increases boost to 15 psi factory was around 10 psi, for the cylinder head
I have an RMW big valve head which is a fully CNC ported head with oversized
valves, dual valve springs and titanium retainers, in the head I have an RMW
Grand Am cam, which is a really big cam it's got a 264 272 duration and a
.450 lift and the cam nearly touches the spark plug tubes I really
like it, I made it to the head I have an RMW shorty header down there which you
can't really see and then I made it to the header I have a way Motor Works
exhaust, the car also has an RMW 450cc
injectors and an RMW tune to make everything work, with the tune the
limiter has been bumped up to 7800 rpms whereas the stock tune was set
around 6750 rpms, I built the car to have more of a
high-end power band so it just keeps pulling when I floor it, this car doesn't
really move fast below 3000 rpms, but it pulls hard from 5,000 rpms all the way
up to 7800, for handling I have Coney yellow shocks paired with a set of swift
lowering springs, I also have an Ulta 22 millimeter rear sway bar set on the
stiffest setting and then I have an H Sport front sway bar set on the softest
setting, the car has polyurethane control arm bushings as well, which all brings a
somewhat stiff ride, but the handling is worth it, the upgraded sway bars allow for
very little body roll when cornering which I really like a lot, for my
summer wheels I have a set of NK RPF ones wrapped with Michelin Pilot Super
Sports which are nice tires for spirited daily driving behind the wheels I have
what's called a poor-man's big brake kit, which is a set of R56 cooper s brake
calipers which are from the next generation of mini cooper and these
brake calipers are a little bigger than the stock ones and I gotta say paired
with a set of good pads and rotors they bite really good I'm using a set of stop
tech rotors and G lack pads, but enough of me talking
let's rev up our engines and go for a drive
one final bit I'd like to include is that these cars only weigh in at about
2,600 pounds from factory, so they don't really need a lot of horsepower to get
them to move pretty good, that being said thank you for watching
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