Send me a message, might be interested if the price is right
Big Jim’s modded chilli red R53 (225bhp)
As you may know I’ve decided to sell up the R50 convertible and blue 03 cooper S to fund a newer 06 plate cooper S supplied by carsorbikes
the blue car was starting to become a money pit and I’ll be honest I didn’t really want to sell the convertible but I needed to find the new car, the convertible has (or will be soon be) going to a forum member as a summer car
as for the my new one, it’s an 06 facelift R53 with factory fit LSD, Sean has taken a few bits off the blue car and refitted the to the new one for me, i went over and ‘helped’ last Sunday with things like the exhaust, I’m sure I was a helpful 2nd set of hands!
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so off came the bilstein coilovers, miltek exhaust, janspeed manifold and wheels, all of which Sean refitted in the day, it then went back later in the week for the airtek intercooler, MSD coil pack, magnecor leads and catcam to be swapped as well as having a vibratechnics engine mount and my powerflex mounts fitted
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This was it at the weekend before I returned it to Sean while I was experimenting with dechroming it, used the black door handle covers off the blue car and a piece of belt line tape I had left over, you can see it covering the door chrome, also put black scuttle vents on too, I like the look of it so have ordered a new roll from kill all chrome to do the job properly when I pick the car up
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cosmetically I’ve got the carbon G-wing to go on, got to remove the cooper spoiler though, the atomspeed scoop needs to be fitted too but I may get that professionally painted red to match the car before I refit it (or run it black for a bit), just going to put 2 black LED spotlights on this one as opposed to 4 on the old car I recon, keep this car a bit stealthy!
Internally it will be just the headunit swap for now, putting the double din front/single din rear pioneer unit in it so I don’t need to start cutting the centre console up like I did for the Sony in the blue car, I’ll also upgrade the speakers and fit an so and sub box, again going to see about going stealthy in the front and using the original grilles, mount the speakers behind the door card
performance wise as well as the stuff already swapped over I picked up a pipercross panel filter new off eBay for £13 and last night grabbed me a new 15% Kavs pulley and belt this evening for £70 plus postage, that can be fitted by carsorbikes when I get it back to him in the new year for a supercharger service
Not going to add the superchip bluefin to this one but put the money toward a proper dyno tune/map at 1320 as well as getting them to fit the 550 injectors I had in stock for the blue car
the other major thing I need is the decat removing and a tomcat putting in its place as it’s a bit to noisy for my liking at the minute
so there we have it, just need to pay for it fully on payday and it’s mine, hopefully this thread won’t be like the blue one where I describe how it’s broken again or somethings snapped or gone pop on me in every other post!
And there we have it, new car, new thread, when I collect it, watch this space
the blue car was starting to become a money pit and I’ll be honest I didn’t really want to sell the convertible but I needed to find the new car, the convertible has (or will be soon be) going to a forum member as a summer car
as for the my new one, it’s an 06 facelift R53 with factory fit LSD, Sean has taken a few bits off the blue car and refitted the to the new one for me, i went over and ‘helped’ last Sunday with things like the exhaust, I’m sure I was a helpful 2nd set of hands!
so off came the bilstein coilovers, miltek exhaust, janspeed manifold and wheels, all of which Sean refitted in the day, it then went back later in the week for the airtek intercooler, MSD coil pack, magnecor leads and catcam to be swapped as well as having a vibratechnics engine mount and my powerflex mounts fitted
This was it at the weekend before I returned it to Sean while I was experimenting with dechroming it, used the black door handle covers off the blue car and a piece of belt line tape I had left over, you can see it covering the door chrome, also put black scuttle vents on too, I like the look of it so have ordered a new roll from kill all chrome to do the job properly when I pick the car up
cosmetically I’ve got the carbon G-wing to go on, got to remove the cooper spoiler though, the atomspeed scoop needs to be fitted too but I may get that professionally painted red to match the car before I refit it (or run it black for a bit), just going to put 2 black LED spotlights on this one as opposed to 4 on the old car I recon, keep this car a bit stealthy!
Internally it will be just the headunit swap for now, putting the double din front/single din rear pioneer unit in it so I don’t need to start cutting the centre console up like I did for the Sony in the blue car, I’ll also upgrade the speakers and fit an so and sub box, again going to see about going stealthy in the front and using the original grilles, mount the speakers behind the door card
performance wise as well as the stuff already swapped over I picked up a pipercross panel filter new off eBay for £13 and last night grabbed me a new 15% Kavs pulley and belt this evening for £70 plus postage, that can be fitted by carsorbikes when I get it back to him in the new year for a supercharger service
Not going to add the superchip bluefin to this one but put the money toward a proper dyno tune/map at 1320 as well as getting them to fit the 550 injectors I had in stock for the blue car
the other major thing I need is the decat removing and a tomcat putting in its place as it’s a bit to noisy for my liking at the minute
so there we have it, just need to pay for it fully on payday and it’s mine, hopefully this thread won’t be like the blue one where I describe how it’s broken again or somethings snapped or gone pop on me in every other post!
And there we have it, new car, new thread, when I collect it, watch this space
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So here we go
from rusty old manifold to this.....
Scott has done a fantastic job creating a tomcat from my existing cat cut out from the old manifold
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after that was done and fitted the car was strapped down for a dyno run to see what sort of power it was putting out before the 15%pulley is fitted along with a proper bytronic remap and 550 injectors
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The final result being 165 bhp at the wheels which equates to 195 bhp at the crank
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had a little friend keeping an eye on me today as well
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from rusty old manifold to this.....
Scott has done a fantastic job creating a tomcat from my existing cat cut out from the old manifold
after that was done and fitted the car was strapped down for a dyno run to see what sort of power it was putting out before the 15%pulley is fitted along with a proper bytronic remap and 550 injectors
The final result being 165 bhp at the wheels which equates to 195 bhp at the crank
had a little friend keeping an eye on me today as well
Nice figures them Jim, looking good.
I was close on the power mate 😂 👍So here we go
from rusty old manifold to this.....
Scott has done a fantastic job creating a tomcat from my existing cat cut out from the old manifold
after that was done and fitted the car was strapped down for a dyno run to see what sort of power it was putting out before the 15%pulley is fitted along with a proper bytronic remap and 550 injectors
The final result being 165 bhp at the wheels which equates to 195 bhp at the crank
had a little friend keeping an eye on me today as well
Cars looking great, really liking the G Wing/Cooper spoiler 👍
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Stereo swap today, this one as good as it is is an absolute swine to get into the dash as you have a big cage and have to get the wires in place before you start to push it in, took me about an hour to eventually get it into place, worth it though!
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Then it was onto the rattly speaker, sure enough it was pretty wet/rusty connections, however before I got the car the window on that side wasn’t correctly aligned, there doesn’t look to be fresh water in the bottom of the door so I removed the old speakers.....
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and fitted an Edge 6.5 component speaker and tweeter as well as putting a bit of sound deadening in the door
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That’s as far as I got as it wa s getting cold and dark, don’t need the car this week so I may try and do a bit in the afternoons after work but it may have to wait until next weekend to get the drivers side speaker and the rear 6x9 in place
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some better pics of the G Wing and cooper spoiler
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And some subtle1320 decals
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Then it was onto the rattly speaker, sure enough it was pretty wet/rusty connections, however before I got the car the window on that side wasn’t correctly aligned, there doesn’t look to be fresh water in the bottom of the door so I removed the old speakers.....
and fitted an Edge 6.5 component speaker and tweeter as well as putting a bit of sound deadening in the door
That’s as far as I got as it wa s getting cold and dark, don’t need the car this week so I may try and do a bit in the afternoons after work but it may have to wait until next weekend to get the drivers side speaker and the rear 6x9 in place
some better pics of the G Wing and cooper spoiler
And some subtle1320 decals
Planned on doing the spotlights I got off dave^ today and then do the wiring from the headunit to the amp but it went cold very quickly once the sun disappeared behind the houses so I just fitted the amp for the sub ready for the wiring between Christmas and new year
going to keep this boot build as minimal as possible just a board for the amp and a single bass box, Im was big fan of Rockford Fosgate equipment in the 90s so I thought I’d go back to them with a classic amp, not the mid 90s ‘landmine’ type I used to have but the later model from 1999-2000 era
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I’ll most likely use the black bass box I have instead of the red one (which was the first to hand for photos), if I mount it on a couple of pieces of 1 inch square runners it will fit further back under the corner shelf than in the pics
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I’m also planning on swapping the JBL sub for a Rockford Fosgate dual voice coil sub running at 4ohm from the amp in mono which should sound awesome
going to keep this boot build as minimal as possible just a board for the amp and a single bass box, Im was big fan of Rockford Fosgate equipment in the 90s so I thought I’d go back to them with a classic amp, not the mid 90s ‘landmine’ type I used to have but the later model from 1999-2000 era
I’ll most likely use the black bass box I have instead of the red one (which was the first to hand for photos), if I mount it on a couple of pieces of 1 inch square runners it will fit further back under the corner shelf than in the pics
I’m also planning on swapping the JBL sub for a Rockford Fosgate dual voice coil sub running at 4ohm from the amp in mono which should sound awesome
I've had a phoenix gold 4 channel amp of similar vintage sitting for years. I must make an effort to do something with it or move it on 
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