Since it appears that Mini made the door armrest plastic from Kevlar, I had to have them professionally reupholstered. So now my interior has the Redline downtubes, doorbar covers and FINALLY the arm rest covers. They (Shelby Trim) are doing the center armrest tomorrow.
I’m very happy how it turned out, the narrow blue stripe with the orange stitching looks great.
Also blacked out the lower speaker grills. I’m not 100% happy with how they turned out, and am looking into some aftermarket grills to use. And for those of you with really sharp eyes, I blacked out the door button inserts. The little plugs that fill in the otherwise gaping holes where two screws are.
Month: June 2008
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Redline Leather finally in!
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More Chrome
Put on my chrome spark plug caps today. I really need to call the chrome plater guy and get all the bits to match. Dark Chrome for everyone! Painted the lower speaker surrounds black too, pictures once I pick up the re-wrapped arm rests from Shelby Trim.
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Jan Tune Results and Disney ‘Cars’ window shade
Jan from Revolution Motor Works was in town this weekend doing Dyno tunes at Monkey Wrench Racing, so you know I got one. With all my mods, before he started it ran just over 200 HP on the Dyno. Final results from some Fuel/Air ratio and other tweaks:
208.5 Whp and
170.1 FtLb of torque on a nice fat curve. They weren’t able to give me the digital graphs, so here is a scan of the print out. I had to enhance the lines to make them visible:
Also picked up a State Farm Disney ‘Cars’ Sunshade. It came with red eyes (as Lightning McQueen). I trimmed it down and painted it black (like everything else 🙂 )
And for those that want to know, here’s the paints I used: Pactra Lexan RC Car body paint, and basic Rustoleum Plastic paint:
I ran out of the Pactra paint so I finished it off with the other. Once it dries, I’m going to go over the creases with a fresh black Sharpie marker to get rid of all the red peeks.
Here it is in Chakik: A bit too tall still, need to trim it.
