[mutilator]

ok, i just done a few mods on my convertable, nothing much but here goes.

18" technomagnesio detroit f1 wheels
chrome flame side repeater covers
and eibach springs

the car is a yellow (!!!) mcc and it is goddamn fantastic, i love it. i got the chilli pack and anthracite dashboard with black half leather seats.

check out the pics:

[mutilator]

next on the list, i want to modify the front grill, im thinkin of getting black bonnet stripes, and im not sure weather or not i want to color code the arches.

thanks for looking, what do you think?

tom.

ps i painted my calipers too

[MINI Poser]

Very nice little bumblebee you have there!

Black bonnet stripes = Voila!

Nice wheels as well!

[mutilator]

thanks, im not sure about bonnet stripes though, i gotta deside.

[mutilator]

this is how i wanna modify the front grill, i gotta get hold of another first so i can hack one up time for some dremeling. hehe

tom.

[Tigger, Eeyore & Roo]

Very nice indeed.

Bonnet stripes should normally be a legal requirement for MOT purposes. Yellow is not such an obvious choice, so I think that can be downgraded from "legal requirement" to just "essential" Joking aside, it's not a huge commitment as they simply peel off if you really don't like them.

I will be colour coding the arches on mine as soon as time allows (about 2007 at this rate!) because it just looks so good. I've seen it done on a yellow hard top and it looked fantastic. Go for it...

Tigger.

[Tigger, Eeyore & Roo]

Quote: Originally Posted by mutilator

this is how i wanna modify the front grill, i gotta get hold of another first so i can hack one up time for some dremeling. hehe

tom.

You should be able to do a direct swop with a MINI One owner, shouldn't you?

Tigger.

[mutilator]

does a grill like this exist already?

Great colour for a convertible !

Has anyone seen a pic of a Gold Metallic convertible with cream leather seats???

I have ordered a black one with cream leather seats but the Gold Metallic one was
my second choice.

[zyo]

Tigger Eeyore and Roo is talking about the standard MO grill.I've attached a couple of photos of my old MO with one on.

[Tigger, Eeyore & Roo]

Quote: Originally Posted by mutilator

does a grill like this exist already?

If you are talking about black grill bars and a chrome surround then that's the standard grille on a MINI One.

Tigger.

[mutilator]

aha, well i want to get rid of the bars altogether, and have tight black mesh there instead.

tom.

[Gr8Dain]

http://www.mini2.com/forum/showthrea...t=75109&page=5

Try this link in the Exterior forum. Sounds like you want to mix the Chrome Aero Grill with the Black Aero Grill. I say "DO IT!!!" And go with black viper stripes on the bonnet and boot. Just my opinion.

I want to do the black aero grill on out BRG MCSC.

[mutilator]

well kinda, i want the mesh to be removable, so i can spray a logo onto it, or mabe a couple of diff logos, and change em whenever i want.
heres what im kinda thinking.

tom.

[Hmmmm]

Hey mutilator - nice mods.

Please can you post some pics of your interior mods particularly the carputer. Part done pics or even telling about your plans would be great too.

Getting my MSCS in less than 2 days. Planning to put a carputer in as soon as I can decide what will fit where.

I like Nano-ITX but it is not out yet and may not be for a long time http://linitx.com/news.php?news_id=79#newsid79. That leaves a Mini-ITX or even the very tasty new Mac mini.

Screen placement is the big issue for me though. I have seen http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww. naviokun.com%2ftext%2fsp_technique.text%2fmove_min i_01.html but as I don't speak Japanese I am a bit knackered. It would work very much if this http://www.digitalww.com/IH002.htm vaporware ever comes to light though.

Have you see any good MINI carputer install pictures as I have not been able to find many?

Are you the the mutulator from mp3car?

Cheers

[mutilator]

thats me
yea im droppin a epia in, m1000, im doin a full boot install, filling the boot with a sub box, but the box is separated at one end and a hinged top on it sos i can get my carpc built in there.
im just gathering parts at the mo, infact once i got a HDD im ready to go, just got my wifi card and ext antenna (which is goin on the back of the rear headrest.)

by the way im gonna try to move the heater controls down below the switches and mould a screen into where the heaters/stereo were, i want it to look factory too, so im gonna shorten the gearstick so it dosent look wierd infront of the heater controls... although it will never look perfect since it will block the cup holders.... but ill have to sacrifce those

anyways, that website looks good. ill have to look into it

my system will have ODBII/gps etc too, what you looking to do?

are you in the uk? whats your mp3car nick?

tom.

[Hmmmm]

Sounds like a great setup - should sound great too

Not fussed about the cup holders they seem a little bit colonial to me just like the bizarre concept of having an auto box or an arm rest each to their own of course. ...

London based - but you can't have everything. I just lurk on mp3car - still picking up info till I can add something useful back. Is it just me or does it seem that things are always 99% finished.... 800x480 sucessfully on a lilliput or xenarc, motorized in-dash touch screen housing, Nano-ITX .....

As for the carpc I think DVD, DVB, MP3, GPS, web browser, Bluetooth, WiFi are good to start off with then experiment with ODBII possibly a PS2 and anything else that people would like to suggest!

I have the HK sound system so will live with that for a while before venturing boldly on that front. I have auto AC so that should make the dash jiggery-pokery a little easier. I thought about keeping the AC and toggles where they are and moving the HU below the toggles. I need to get a couple of down tubes to play with but tried it out theoretically at the very helpful http://www.coolnew.co.uk/index.html with a spare dash of their's and it looked very plausible.

I'll try and post some pics of MINI installs here to keep them all in one place if you don't mind me abusing your thread?

[mutilator]

no problem man.
i cut some mdf to size ready to put into the space where the heaters/headunit are, and am about to start fabbing the screens bezle into it, i wish i had AC now, cus its gonna be a pain in the **** to move the heaters down.
on the sound front, im going for infinity referance components in the back, (75rms each) some infinity kappas in the front (i think, and roughly 150rms) and some random 12" sub, infinity/somethin like that 500rms ish.

an amp in the boot, and one under passanger seat.
gotta strip the whole car out to run cables tho, thats the ****** side of the carpc. mine will do dvd/divx all that crap too. oh and im experimenting with bluetooth at the mo, so that should be good.

tom.

ps you seen digital-car .co.uk?