Wow, what a great day today was. Got the John Cooper Works wheel installed (albeit with tripping the air bag light), hung out at Detroit Tuned for the “clean up” party on a beautiful day, with old and new friends, then capped it off with the Red Wings 2-1 win over the Penguins to bring Lord Stanley one step closer to being home!
Thanks to everyone at the party today for being so friendly and welcoming to me and the dogs, and especially Chad and Tori for having us over! You ALL rock!
Month: May 2008
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Detroit Tuned Spring Clean Up Party
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I can see clearly now, the chrome is gone
Finally tore apart the dash and painted all my chrome line interior trim rings 🙂
BEFORE: with chrome rings
AFTER: nice and dark… it looks much more different in person. Also note custom shift knob and ‘dragon’ cig lighter
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Pulleys, Pulleys everywhere!
Just got back from a nice morning/afternoon at Detroit Tuned.
Added on a 15% supercharger pulley, 2% crank and the 5% alternator pulley. Also accidentally got a Milltek exhaust installed.HOLY COW! Not only does it feel a lot faster, but the supercharger whine is crazy now, and the growl from the exhaust just adds to it. It’s going to be really hard not to redline Chakik to every shift now.
[For those of you keeping score, I went with the Alta V1 15% Reduction Pulley, and the Alta 2% Crank and ALTAnator units. The Milltek tips were blacked out as soon as we opened the box]
[pics later]
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Whalen Shift Machine Custom Knob
I’ve got a new knob! Doug Whalen of Whalen Shift Machine not only did an AMAZING job on it, but I got in in two days! I probably shouldn’t be as exicited as I am about a new shift knob, but this is the first step on my interior upgrades. (Techincally the fourth, if you count the Craven Shift Well Cover, Hamann Pedal set and the blacked out down tubes that I painted)
Some photos:
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Hamman after Hamann logo
I’ve been toying around with making a custom Hamman logo for myself. Using the Hamann logo for inspiration I came up with this:
I wanted it to have the same feel as the Hamann one, but obviously with a squirrel 🙂
Here’s what its going to look like on my Whalen shift nob
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BBK painted and spacers
Today was a busy day. I painted the rusted rotors on my Detroit Tuned Big Brake Kit. Also put in spacers on the wheels (5mm up front and 15 in the back). Now I have to wait for the suspension to settle back in to see if the rears will rub or not.
Also blacked out the 3rd tail light and painted the backs of the gas tanks and exhaust shield black. 🙂 -
On Killboys blog 🙂
Well, there are about 6 photos of us driving from the Dragon. But one made it to Killboys blog!
CD came today, so here’s a few more:
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More MOTD 6 Photos
Here are some more decent pics from Minis on the Dragon 2008.
Special request for Paul. –update 5/2018 -I’m not sure what happened to this gallery, nor what images were here. I’m sad about that.
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Right back at it
Well, not being one to leave anything alone. I repainted my side markers (inner bits blue) and blacked out the “S” part, replacing the red sticker with a blue one I got at the dragon.
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MOTD 6 Pics
Some pics from Minis on the Dragon 6. I took a lot more, but really, how many pictures of Mini’s do you need to see? 🙂