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The platypus mounts work well to mount a front plate without requiring holes in the front bumper.

realistically the answer it, It depends. Is the downpipe you are looking at a cat deleted one or does it have a free flow cat? Have you changed the exhaust system and modified the second cat from OEM? 1) if it changes the emissions enough to trip a code, automatic fail at an inspection station. Clearing the code before driving will result in a no test due to the ecu "ratting you out". You will have to drive about 100 miles to reset. 2) If it removes the downpipe cat, then by the law it fails, but that requires the inspector to know the car hasa second cat, and checks to see if it is there. So depending on the inspector or day it could pass or fail. Now if someone was you pass through a rapidpass mobile test, they would be able to go to the website and for a small convenience fee pay for their emission test if they passed (I have never seen a failed one), and there would be no physical inspection. Where might these tester be? https://rapidpassvirginia.com/VaPublic/Locations

Maybe you will get lucky and some ice or snow slides it a week. That has been the case the last two years

Event Title: The Mistress Run Event Date: 02/19/2022 10:00 AM to 02/19/2022 02:30 PM Event Address: 6003 Burke Centre Pkwy, Burke, VA, 20180 Join us the Saturday after Valentine’s Day for some quality time with our MINIs (Mistress). We will be meeting in the Giant Parking lot in Burke, we will be heading southwest exploring many of the great twisties around Manassas and Warrenton as we wind our way for about an hour with a lunch stop in the Bealeton, VA area. Lunch Stop: We will be doing a picnic lunch, pack your own, this year at Monroe Park (14421 Gold Dust Parkway Goldvein, VA 22720). The park has restrooms, picnic tables and plenty of parking. The current weather forecast is 52 degrees and sunny, so please plan accordingly. After lunch we will continue west and north through Culpeper and into wine country, the route is nearly two hours of continuous country roads that are a great combination of sweeping turns, rolling roads, technical twisties while enjoying countryside views. We will be ending this year at the Three Fox Vineyards. End Point: Three Fox Vineyards, 10100 Three Fox Ln. Delaplane, VA 20144 check them out at threefoxvineyards.com Schedule of events: 10:00AM: Driver’s meeting 10:30AM: Run Starts 11:30AM: Lunch stop 12:30PM: Start afternoon leg 2:25PM: Three Fox Vineyard RSVP on the event here:

Good looking MINI, I would agree with @SneakyBaron any time I am not doing the work myself I go to GTPeace. They are comfortable doing everything from basic service to track mods. If you are looking at ECU tunes, check out detriottuned.com, They are good friends of the club and produce high quality parts. They also go ECU tunes, you pull and ship your ECU to them and they return it with a staged tune. I know @MELO-R56 did this, and can speak to it. He has an 09 which was a year MINI tuned out the pop and burbles, and they were able to add them back in with his tune.

Congrats, on your MINI purchase, we look forward to see you at a drive once we get through winter. Look forward to seeing photos

I have not seen any come out for an event yet.

used the extra day off, thank you snow day, to rebuild the carburetor on the classic Mini. Hopefully I can find some time this weekend to get it tuned up and running. I am thinking of taking it down to the dragon this year, but need to get some good shake down miles first.

You are welcome to participate individually or once as a couple. Brandy and I do it individually as we don't share well.

For everyone thinking of attending some quick information for registering. Be sure to do the registration part well in advance of the Feb 19 date that runs open up fast , like black Friday big screens at Walmart fast. Many of the desirable runs fill up within the first 30 minutes of being open. I will post a calendar that show how events overlap in mid Jan to help you pick and choose. As well as some helpful tips to consider for your trip down. I look forward to seeing you all there, and this is a must do at least once. I am sure many of our other seasoned veteran will share their personal tip as it approaches.

Welcome, you are moving into a new frontier with working on the Gen3s as they are just coming off warranty for many folks. I will keep an eye out and share any information I can turn up. The LCA is the same type as gen2 and other BMWs, should just be pop the two ball joints (bottom of spindle and subframe) and them the rear tab just slides out of the bushing. Here is the pelican part write up: for previous gen MINIs: https://www.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/MINI/41-SUSPEN-Control_Arm_Bushing_and_ball_joint_Replacement/41-SUSPEN-Control_Arm_Bushing_and_ball_joint_Replacement.htm I was unable to find the torque specs, but it seems pretty standard across BMW/MINI paltforms: 90nm+/-1 for the inner (subframe) ball joint, and 56 nm on the outer (spindle) ball joint. We look forward to seeing how it goes and hopefully a gen3 person can confirm. There is no service manual released for the Gen3 yet, but you can get a one day subscription to BMW online manuals at www.bmwtis.com for $30. Pretty much everything but the wiring diagram is a PDF and downloadable.

I have added a few more details to the event post for everyone. hes-gonna-find-the-jolliest-bunch-of-assholes-this-side-of-the-nuthouse-clark-griswold.mp4

Great, we look forward to seeing you at the event

Looks great

His son did the design, and he asked if I could make it into a graphic. the owner of the MINI is Colin, he is a staple at the Tail of the Dragon. Not only for MINIs on the Dragon, but randomly throughout the year. he estimated he has 15,000 miles on the Tail of the Dragon!!!

knocked out a custom roof graphic for a fellow MINIac that was in town this weekend.

Sounds like it could be a speed sensor going bad. Without pulling the codes that’s just a guess based on abs error but no noticeable lose of braking ability

I am open to suggestions

Hey all, Colin is going to be in town this coming weekend and he wanted to know if anyone wanted to get together. Reply if you would be interested in a bunch on Sunday. @TGGRRR (Ali) @Edge @MarkDDrew @GreenCactus @NYRican MC40 @CHILLIN please tag anyone you might think would be interested

Oil pump shouldn't be to bad, hope he's back up and running soon.

Looks great. We have club discounts with PTuning and GTPeace. We will be working to re-establish agreement with other vendors in the near future.

Here is the GPX file (turn-by-turn nav) if anyone would like to use it. The link below will provide the steps to download the app and use the turn-by-turn Antique_Run.gpx

Welcome, I look forward to meeting you at a run soon