Hobbies

[mrtr33]

[Cigarbear]

Wood working/turning and distance running. I haven't found a thread for the latter though I'm not surprised

Todays hobby was replacing the crankshaft balancer/pulley on her Mini Cooper S . It was a shitty BMW design and they wanted 400$ for a factory one. I went online and got a billet aftermarket one that weighs less than 1 pound. Now the lil bastard will fly down the road. Gonna save up and get a 15% larger pulley for the supercharger and go eat some Mustang GT's

What year is your Binnie? My sister in law had a 2007 and the transmission was all kinds of fucked up. The later years supposedly ficed the problem but my father in law never failed to tease her about it not being original. He used to race the British models in the 60s and never lost the love for the originals.

[mrtr33]

oh, Hobbies. I got it.

I like to kill things, blow things up, bake bread, write code and build fires.

[kevin7]

Wood working/turning and distance running. I haven't found a thread for the latter though I'm not surprised



What year is your Binnie? My sister in law had a 2007 and the transmission was all kinds of fucked up. The later years supposedly ficed the problem but my father in law never failed to tease her about it not being original. He used to race the British models in the 60s and never lost the love for the originals.

05 S 6 speed manual ,supposedly a Getrag transmission .We drove an 07 S and it was turbocharged,it was OK but the boost came on weird to me. With the 05 being supercharged there is 0 lag if you are above 2000 rpm . Its just haul ass to 7 grand and shift repeatedly I got the new pulley on with no problems in approx 2 hrs start to finish. I like the old Brit ones but to be honest all Brit cars are a 1/1 repair/drive ratio and it's Candys car so its gotta be reliable.

[Cigarbear]

That's quite about the Brit cars but my FIL was a car nut. He had 3 running and 6 for parts at his peak. The NW mini club he helped found had a reunion a few years back and it was so cool to see the all the originals. They even had a mini moke.