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I can imagine. On Tar Heel's Blue Ridge Parkway Tour last weekend, some of the drivers let the car in front of them get out of sight. No one was exceeding the speed limit by more the just a few, yet others were holding up quite a few MINI's. And this was after drivers meeting on both Friday and Saturday telling people to keep up. You wouldn't have seen anything on a Go Pro with them!
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Less than a month remains until the Cooper Vineyard MINI event. Get your tickets soon!
We'll have details within the next couple of weeks on the route and starting point. Though Bruster's Ice Cream on Staple Mills road is still the leading candidate.
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We had a great time the last couple of years. Two years ago, Crown gave them a good amount of money for advertising and they had right at 200 MINI's and a couple of classics. Last year Jacque told me they weren't gonna have any advertising money from Cr
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Over the weekend I tried Seafoam in my 94 Jeep Wrangler with 136XXX miles on the odo. No real PVC so I disconnected the intake cranked up a few rpms and trickled some in the intake. About half a can and shut it off. The other half went into the tank. Just after dark I took it out for a couple of miles. Smoke? Yes. Run smoother? Yes. Am I impressed? Pretty much.
It's running smoother and quieter. Will do another in the oil soon then an oil change. Impressed so far.
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One thing we did with our gimmick road rally for relay for life was to divide the rally up into legs. We split the rally up into three segments. At the end of the first segment, you'd get a new set of instructions for the second leg. At the end of the s
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We have four of us from HR MINI up here in DC for the run. Looks like the meet up time is 8ish. Just to be on the safe side, we'll get there a bit early. 3 of us are over at the Comfort Inn on Oxon Hill rd, so we could almost walk there.
See ya in the
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Bite me Craig!:laugh:
We have no pity!
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Where did you get your Porter cable from?
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Make sure you find me and my Clubman Sunday and I'll have a look at TGGRR. Opinions and Answers are free. Correct answers are a bit more.
Craig, All the meblems on the MINI's are adhesive and easily removable. Just go slow and easy.
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I'll be at National Harbor for the drive up. Looks like we have a good amount of interest in the trip from other HR MINI members.
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Well, my 30 years in the body business might help. What's happened is the color has been bleached out by the sun, even though it's clear coated. Kinda like the reason plants grow in a green house. The suns UV rays still affect the pigments in the paint, and with orange being a shade of red and reds not being super UV resistant, the color gets bleached out. Since the stripes hid the color from the sun, it didn't get bleached out like the non bonnet striped area, so basically it was still new color under there. I don't think you're gonna bring any color back to that area. More stripes might be the only answer short of a repaint. Though DuPont matches hot orange nicely.
As for the Celica, Toyota didn't clear coat their red until the late 90's, though they should have much earlier. They'd start out red then fade to a nice lipstick pick! But with no clear, you could buff through the fade and expose new paint and start all over again.
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Not sure where I'll be coming from, but I'll be at Towson well before 10AM. I think I'll have a few others tagging along from HR MINI.
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Sorry- new to the MINI group. So, does everyone meet and drive to vineyard together?
Most folks drive to the Vineyard on their own. However, they miss our drive over. We had something like 30 MINI's on the run last ye
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I'm heading up that way for the meet. Trying to convince a few more HR MINI guys to join in. It might be worthwhile driving up to NOVA and cruising up with y'all. From Hampton Roads to Baltimore and back would be a looong day!
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I'm just getting into this mini community thing. HR Mini? What is HR?
-EDIT: Just googled HR, Hampton Roads I am assuming?
Yep, that's us. Hampton Roads club MINI to be exact. We do a fair amount of events down here in SE
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Don't forget, HR MINI will be hosting a drive to the winery like we did last year. We basically took over the ride when River City MINIs folded.
Still working on a start location, we may once again use Bruster's Ice Cream again. I'll keep y'all inform
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Hey Folks, we had a great time. I think the other R MINI guys did too. I'd love to see half that many MINI's come out to our events. Of course we did have 24 at our Fall Colors Run. Once we got out of suburbia the roads were great. No matter how many ru
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We just put Koni FSD's on the front of the kids 07 MCS. Seem fine so far. Got them from Tire Rack too.
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We did the last two days from Cherokee, NC to Waynesboro last year. We had a blast and we're planing on doing the whole run from north to south this year. You'll have a good time if ya go!
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I have/had Yokohama S Drives on both of my MINI's. They are now so noisey I can't stand it! They sounds like 40" tall super swampers on a big ol' Chevy 4X4! Well, close to it anyway. It's so bad, I put the run flats on the 07 and they sounded and rode better!
I'm in the market too, but I can swear to ya, it won't be S Drives!
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Hey DC Gang,
I think I'm gonna join up with y'all for your Spring Fling. But...if ya want a little more motoring fun that weekend. us down here at Hampton Roads club MINI also have our Spring Fling that Saturday. Coincidence or fate?
We'll head out of
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Hey Craig,
Only limited experience with the MINI. But I've been autocrossing for over 30 years. Got a closet full of trophies and I was the Solo II chairman for the Old Dominion Region-SCCA for about 15 years.Oh, and Regina is a two time SCCA Divisional Champion. Of course I did the car prep!
The son and I ran his stock 07 MCS at events down in Charlotte while he was in school there. He'd run G/S and I ran D/SP. We hate running against each other. With nothing but Hoosier radials, we were both undefeated in 6 events.
The biggest thing I tell people, is drive it STOCK as long as you can. Stock cars are harder to drive fast, so it;ll make you a better driver. One thing people do too fast is put on sticky tires. They mask a lot of bad habits. I made Tyler run the his MINI stock for the first year,then we started modding it. And of course, we haven't done an event since!
I'd also do tires LAST. I like a bigger rear sway bar to help the car rotate. But be careful there. Springs and shocks are debateable. Lower helps, but if you bottom out the suspension, you'll have your hands full. Likewise stiffer shocks will take some learning. If the car doesn't lean, then the tires absorb the deflection. over load them and they'll slide. On a tuning side remember "Stiff end slides first" Big rear bar, the rear will want to come around faster. Big front bar, it won't want to turn. Same for springs and shocks.
Tires are important and make a MAJOR difference, but can be A) expensive or B) mask some bad habits because they forgive more. Up to a point!
The biggest adjustable part is the driver. Drive the car, learn the car. Learn it's "quirks". Know what it's gonna do and when it's gonna do it. THAT will make you faster in the long run!
Good luck!
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Here's a couple of shots of our MINI's The son's 07 MCS is actually Honda S2000 pearl yellow with a good amount of extra pearl in the clear. We call it UN mellow yellow.
And our 09 Laser Blue Clubman S.
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I gotta agree with Stinker, we made a good choice coming up from Hampton Roads. The event went very well. For something put together fairly quickly, it was great. You'd have thought the planning went of for a good while. (Which it may have and I just do
7th Annual Cooper Vineyards MINI Event
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Cooper Vineyards MINI Cooper event starts at 11AM. HOWEVER, HR MINI is hosting the annual drive over to the vineyard again this year. We'll head out promptly at 9:30 (Or so....I know, I said promptly) the route is about an hour and a half long an