What did you do for your ZHP/ BMW / MINI today? #2

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Let the powder coating begin

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More assembly

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Originally Posted by fredo

Another one here: IR, angel eyes, performance kidneys. BTW, my ZHP comes with 6MT / black leather and according to the stats 388 were made like that. :applause

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I wish my paint looked that good up front though. Most of my pictures have to be instagram'd to hide the imperfections :shift

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Originally Posted by stephenkirsh

What kind of paint do you guys use?

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I masked it off with a TON of paper and blue painters tape and just plasti-dipped it. I typically take off my rear diffuser, tape off and plasti-dip my exhaust pipes once a year too, sure I could buy some black tips, but I typically just plasti-dip them at the same time as my wax cycle.

The first time I did it, before...
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Originally Posted by fredo

wsmeyer ... do you have the part number handy ? Also, did you replace the clips at the same time ?

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Why not paint it? I removed the bumper and took it apart, sanded them down and painted them with SEM Trim Black paint.

Incredible work Stuart!

I'm just considering options at this moment. I didn't think about buying the part until wsmeyer mentioned about it.

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Originally Posted by Fenrir

Finished installing the Stett Intake Boot today. The fitment with the AFE is tight. Not much tighter than the OEM boot though. It's just stiffer so it won't flex as much as the oe boot. There is one fairly noticeable bend in the boot once installed but after refitting the oem boot, I noticed the bend was on the old one as well. The bend has zero noticeable issues in performance. The boot is well crafted and personally, I love the way it looks. Some people like all black engine bays. I have a TiAg car so I want some color somewhere lol. The car feels much better with the new boots. The throttle responds a little better and all of the tiny cracks causing vacuum leaks are gone.

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thanks, ben. that is quite a kink there. i found with the OE boot (i have the aFe intake as well), if i rotated the upper boot piece counter-clockwise a little bit, the kink was less pronounced. i have also considered modifying the aFe heatshield/bracket to allow the entire unit to move forward a little.

peter

Looks good Marcus

Drove my ZHP for the first time in several weeks since being on vacation! I appreciate it all over again after driving terrible rental cars for that time period. Plus, no transmission drips on the garage floor after a new pan gasket several weeks back. :cigar

I have been driving less my ZHP lately since she hit 140K. Have been using my newly acquired truck as my daily driver. Maybe its psychological that I would prevent further upticks on the mileage. Gives me shivers every time I think of high mileage.

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Originally Posted by das boots

Gives me shivers every time I think of high mileage.

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I definitely get the shivers out of my 216k ZHP... every time I go for a backroads-carving blast. The joy can't be contained.