Awesome build. Expensive brakes! I have the Willwoods front and rear, but couldn't justify pulling the trigger for Brembos. During Covid I did the same project to my 2005 R50 (owned it since new); I pulled the subframes, ground off all the rust and repainted them with POR-15, upgraded all the bushings, control arms, sway bar, R56 aluminum trailing arms, Vorschlag camber plates, etc., etc. It was great to have everything out on the garage floor to clean and assess, and reassemble better than new. The car is rattle free and handles like a dream. I put Bilstein PSS-10s (the adjustable ones) on my wife's F30 and would like to put them on my R50 (it currently has FSD dampers with 30mm lowering springs, which work great, but just lack adjustment).
This is to the creator... Keep up the content, you have done great work so far, and you are gaining some traction, keep at it and you will be able to find success
Subbed, just watched your entire 'series'! Fantastic to watch. Be really careful in future if you remove the shock mounting bolt at the bottom of the trailing arm. Mine were nuked so had to get another set of trailing arms :( I stripped the thread removing some crappy coilovers.
thank you! The subframes were powdercoated black and aluminium parts like the supercharger and horns were cleaned up with a wire brush and painted with high temp silver :)
thanks! Take ALOT of photos when you're taking it apart it helps wonders, and get a Haynes manual it's very useful for disassembly instructions and torque settings for bolts :)
Hi mate thank you for watching :) yeah the plan was to refresh or upgrade the parts, the cam was Newman's PH2 which I had dynoed with the supporting mods up to 235hp which I was very pleased with. Suspension is completely overhauled too meaning it handles very nicely and predictably now, it's only had one track shakedown so far so more testing needed
bwalky films excellent! I was surprised how in depth you went with it tbh, nice to see it all fresh, did you paint under the car while it was all apart?
@@MiniMattTV the front of the car was okay there was some rust at the back of the car which was ground back and then the rear has been undersealed completely. Other than that the car was in reasonable condition
They are Renault Mégane 275 brakes! They use an adapter available from a guy in the R53 Owners Club on Facebook, they use 330mm disks and do stop really really well, I think all in all cost about £600 with disks, pads and braided lines from HEL
Literally been dreaming about doing this to my mini since a first watched this vid a few weeks back. Do you have a parts list for the subframes? Mainly just need the list of bushes and bolts if possible?
sorry for not getting back to you that fast, new poly bushes were all brought through powerflex www.powerflex.co.uk/products/R50-52-53+Gen+1+%282000+-+2006%29-503/1.html there are a little bit harsher and slightly more noise but do help with handling, most of the bolts were cleaned up and painted underneath and smaller m6 bolts were replaced with stainless items from eBay
No worries at all, thanks for the reply!! Yeah I can imagine the improvement being poly'd. Interesting those bolts cleaned up so well, did you send them to the blasters along with the subframes etc or just a home scrub up job? Got a good quote from a local blasters, ordered the bushes yesterday just need to buy hubs, tie rods, control arms, I am looking at getting all that stuff from lohen, their house made control arms and drop links seem reasonably priced unless you know otherwise? Not sure I can afford to go the whole hog with brake and coilovers like you :( Thanks again for getting back to me!
the bolts I reused on mine were just a home job with a wire brush on an angle grinder, it takes a little time but it's worth it to put things back together nicely again, I used there arms for this build but the lohen arms do look nice although maybe a bit more harsh with pillowball bearings rather than bushes orranje.co.uk/shop-by-brand/hardrace/hardrace-adjustable-rear-control-arms-hardened-rubber you don't need to replace all four lower arms but it does help for super fine allignment adjustments
@@trackdriven Yeah thats a good point about pillow ball/poly that I hadn't considered, so thank you. Out of interest, how are the bilsteins on the road, I wonder how they compare to the ohlins...I want to try and stretch the budget and get coilovers and brakes also now.
The bilsteim B14s are much nicer than stock worn suspension, but they are a bit pricey and lack adjustability for stiffness and damping which could be useful for very track based cars, however they are excellent for a fit and forget type mod. Overall a good ride and with the bonus of height adjustability they are a good improvement, they do handle well on track too. I have heard good things about Ohlins also so you probably can't go wrong with a reputable company.
Gotta love finding a hidden gem of a video series like this on CZcams. Well done guys!!
Awesome build. Expensive brakes! I have the Willwoods front and rear, but couldn't justify pulling the trigger for Brembos. During Covid I did the same project to my 2005 R50 (owned it since new); I pulled the subframes, ground off all the rust and repainted them with POR-15, upgraded all the bushings, control arms, sway bar, R56 aluminum trailing arms, Vorschlag camber plates, etc., etc. It was great to have everything out on the garage floor to clean and assess, and reassemble better than new. The car is rattle free and handles like a dream. I put Bilstein PSS-10s (the adjustable ones) on my wife's F30 and would like to put them on my R50 (it currently has FSD dampers with 30mm lowering springs, which work great, but just lack adjustment).
Thank you for sharing that Awesome rebuild.
Mahalo & Aloha from the Bigisland of Hawaii
every gen ones dream to have time/money to throw at it. i envy you...nice work.
This Cooper will be fresh as hell!!:D wow
Good job Dad.
Fantastic work.
Such a clean build
Love it fella, can’t wait for next video
This is to the creator... Keep up the content, you have done great work so far, and you are gaining some traction, keep at it and you will be able to find success
I've got an R50 Mini ONE and need to rebuild its suspension. For this years trackdays.
Should be pretty quick at Brands Hatch once she is finished
really nice job!
Job well done...great video also!!!
So fucking relaxing to watch. Love your Videos and Mini. Greetings from Bavaria.
Wow congratulations
Good job!
so helpfull for my project thanks a lot!!
Subbed, just watched your entire 'series'! Fantastic to watch. Be really careful in future if you remove the shock mounting bolt at the bottom of the trailing arm. Mine were nuked so had to get another set of trailing arms :( I stripped the thread removing some crappy coilovers.
Good job 👍👍👍
Bro I wish I had you in Los Angeles California swear keep up the great work I have a 04 r53
Great Works!!!!!
Awsome!
Love it
Brilliant work! Awesome...... planning to do something like that. Can you tell me how did you painted the supercharger and al the other Stuff?
thank you! The subframes were powdercoated black and aluminium parts like the supercharger and horns were cleaned up with a wire brush and painted with high temp silver :)
This is pretty awesome, I have a very similar mini, that I plan to do the same thing with this winter. Any tips?
thanks! Take ALOT of photos when you're taking it apart it helps wonders, and get a Haynes manual it's very useful for disassembly instructions and torque settings for bolts :)
@@trackdriven brilliant stuff,keep up the good work. 👍
Beautiful! Where's the parts list?
This is a great idea, I will put one together.
Just watched all of your videos, they’re excellent! What’s the plan? Just freshen everything up? Was the cam anything special?
Hi mate thank you for watching :) yeah the plan was to refresh or upgrade the parts, the cam was Newman's PH2 which I had dynoed with the supporting mods up to 235hp which I was very pleased with. Suspension is completely overhauled too meaning it handles very nicely and predictably now, it's only had one track shakedown so far so more testing needed
bwalky films excellent! I was surprised how in depth you went with it tbh, nice to see it all fresh, did you paint under the car while it was all apart?
@@MiniMattTV the front of the car was okay there was some rust at the back of the car which was ground back and then the rear has been undersealed completely. Other than that the car was in reasonable condition
Great rebuild. What car are the front calipers from? Or are they part of a big brake kit? Would love to fit them on my race car!!
They are Renault Mégane 275 brakes! They use an adapter available from a guy in the R53 Owners Club on Facebook, they use 330mm disks and do stop really really well, I think all in all cost about £600 with disks, pads and braided lines from HEL
@@trackdriven Thank-you for that, I'll check them out!
hi Track Driven, i want ths intercooler bay pls i ned link for thats
Are you recoating all the parts or are these brand new? Specifically looking at the supercharger horn.
Great content!
I just painted the super charger horns, most subframe bits were powdercoated
Bilstein PSS9's are not good coilovers those went bad on my mini in a very short period of time. Great videos BTW!
Ahh really that's unfortunate :/ hopefully they go a bit more for me, they have been great so far! Thanks!
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Literally been dreaming about doing this to my mini since a first watched this vid a few weeks back. Do you have a parts list for the subframes? Mainly just need the list of bushes and bolts if possible?
sorry for not getting back to you that fast, new poly bushes were all brought through powerflex www.powerflex.co.uk/products/R50-52-53+Gen+1+%282000+-+2006%29-503/1.html
there are a little bit harsher and slightly more noise but do help with handling, most of the bolts were cleaned up and painted underneath and smaller m6 bolts were replaced with stainless items from eBay
No worries at all, thanks for the reply!! Yeah I can imagine the improvement being poly'd. Interesting those bolts cleaned up so well, did you send them to the blasters along with the subframes etc or just a home scrub up job?
Got a good quote from a local blasters, ordered the bushes yesterday just need to buy hubs, tie rods, control arms, I am looking at getting all that stuff from lohen, their house made control arms and drop links seem reasonably priced unless you know otherwise? Not sure I can afford to go the whole hog with brake and coilovers like you :(
Thanks again for getting back to me!
the bolts I reused on mine were just a home job with a wire brush on an angle grinder, it takes a little time but it's worth it to put things back together nicely again, I used there arms for this build but the lohen arms do look nice although maybe a bit more harsh with pillowball bearings rather than bushes orranje.co.uk/shop-by-brand/hardrace/hardrace-adjustable-rear-control-arms-hardened-rubber
you don't need to replace all four lower arms but it does help for super fine allignment adjustments
@@trackdriven Yeah thats a good point about pillow ball/poly that I hadn't considered, so thank you. Out of interest, how are the bilsteins on the road, I wonder how they compare to the ohlins...I want to try and stretch the budget and get coilovers and brakes also now.
The bilsteim B14s are much nicer than stock worn suspension, but they are a bit pricey and lack adjustability for stiffness and damping which could be useful for very track based cars, however they are excellent for a fit and forget type mod. Overall a good ride and with the bonus of height adjustability they are a good improvement, they do handle well on track too. I have heard good things about Ohlins also so you probably can't go wrong with a reputable company.
Hi, great job. Where did you buy batery protection?
This was something that I had made up, although the company GTT offer something similar.
Any updates?
Hi Pal, do you have a link for the heat wrap you used? thanks
Are you talking about the Gold heat shield on the power steering pipes?
Yes buddy
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more updates on this car
Things have slowed with this build due to other commitments, but I'm aiming to bring some new content soon.
any more videos?
Hopefully soon mate I have something planned :)
What's happened, is the car OK? Why didn't you upload any more videos bud?
The car is doing great! I'm hoping to upload finally a follow up video soon.
Great build, I just subs to your channel, but a mistake that I also did, is silver project camber plates..they’re sh*t :(
thanks! yes I drove it for a few miles with them on, and then immediately swapped them out they were way too noisy