@mazda616 Coolant temp gauge in the Mini. If it moves from its normal position, the head is already warped!

If its got numbers on the side, that means its a race car right
Finally bought some magnetic numbers for the Mini

Slightly used OEM shocks and struts, camber plates and front strut tower reinforcements installed on the Mini!
1st gen BMW Mini had issues with the top of the strut towers deforming too much so I fixed that too:

Basically hit it with a hammer till it flattens out Between the camber plates and the red colored strut "protectors" the towers shouldn't mushroom again.
I didn't have time to get an alignment today but im guessing I have around -2 deg of camber on the front now...time to order tires!
The ride has also improved a lot, something about not having blown shocks lol. It now puts down power better too, i floored it in 1st from a stop while turning right at a junction, it spun the inside wheel a lot before, now its just a hint of wheelspin!

So now, the entire front end suspension is 'new' on the Mini, I've replaced control arms, ball joints, tie rod ends, driveshafts and shocks springs in the last 20k miles. Poly bushings looked fine 10k miles ago so thats there as wel...

This meme always cracks me up lol:

Me and @RallyDarkstrike met up in Elite Dangerous to do some mining on a planet. It was as close to a "car" meet that ive been to in a while

It was also a lotta fun ramping my rover over Darkstrike's ship

Later, another guy joined us:

WOHO!

Thanks again for the platform @jminer @RallyDarkstrike @Jb-boin @nickhasanexocet

I beat my own personal record around this track! I guess all that gaming and autocrossing did help

I still need to out some of the panels that vover the wires back in but its built and it works!
Specs:
I5 9600k OCd to 4.9Ghz with a 280mm water cooler
Stock Nvidia 3070 FE
Z390 Aorus mobo
A couple of ssds

Im excit!

@adversemartyr Twin turbo!

@darkbrador I'm tilted at your usage of ff.

@aremmes I think @dieseldub has/had one aa well!

@trivet I bought mine from etsy...but seems like they aren't selling em anymore

@nth256 you know that you can stop once you buy a Mustang...so I would suggest to buy a Mustang

@taylor-martin I have a vehicle ready for this one! Just need to think of a back story and give it a name
Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to attend the race on Sunday, I'm driving to Illinois to autocross the Mini!

@way2blu I'm no expert but it seems to be writing at 1.3*2= 2.6 MB/s which is not a lot at all...could you go over to the performance tab in task manager and look at the average response time on the bottom? If the in the hundreds or thousands of ms, it could be that the hard disk is failing...
You could also download a tool that looks at hard disk s.m.a.r.t data, thats the hard disk diagnostics thingy

@musashi66 aah ok! Idk why its so expensive on the Mini website...I bought those rims almost a year back and they've cost around that much ever since, so its not a special deal or anything...

@musashi66 the link that I posted has em for $112 each

@musashi66 https://parts.miniofkennesaw.com/oem-parts/mini-wheel-alloy-36116775855

@facw or just buy aftermarket