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

[Rovert]

Yup I will!

[330i Lover]

I looked at it and admired the day I can drive it. Stupid recall!

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[Rovert]

Rasp terminated!!!

After driving for the first 20 minutes I feel like I just performed a vasectomy on the car. While the Eisenmann exhaust screams, the tone is now smoother and all low to mid bass. It sounds a bit like an aggressive M54B30 now.

I didn't know what I had until I reduced the rasp 95%. I did feel partially empty when I gave it! But it sounds like nothing is broken. LOL. I'll see how it goes as I drive it more. The resonator probably needs to break in more with heat. My stock untouched section 1 is sitting at the side of the house ready to provide rasp when I want it back.

[fredo]

My 2005 Mini Cooper got some love today (143,500 miles) :

- oil filter housing gasket
- valve cover gasket
- oil pan gasket
- spark plugs
- fuel filter
- transmission fluid
- engine air filter

She will be around for a while !

[BMWCurves]

My 2005 Mini Cooper got some love today (143,500 miles) :

- oil filter housing gasket
- valve cover gasket
- oil pan gasket
- spark plugs
- fuel filter
- transmission fluid
- engine air filter

She will be around for a while !

That's quite the list. Good stuff!

[Sockethead]

Rasp terminated!!!

After driving for the first 20 minutes I feel like I just performed a vasectomy on the car. While the Eisenmann exhaust screams, the tone is now smoother and all low to mid bass. It sounds a bit like an aggressive M54B30 now.

I didn't know what I had until I reduced the rasp 95%. I did feel partially empty when I gave it! But it sounds like nothing is broken. LOL. I'll see how it goes as I drive it more. The resonator probably needs to break in more with heat. My stock untouched section 1 is sitting at the side of the house ready to provide rasp when I want it back.

You only replaced section 1?

[Rovert]

Yup I have a spare section one in mint condition. So that was the part I decided to hack up and TIG weld while my existing section one was on my car. The AR20 just filled in a section where it was just straight pipe.

Everything is more broken in after driving for over an hour now. Every time I stopped it smelled sweet. All the good manufacturing stuff burning away!

I'm getting used to the smoother/more refined tone. My friend said on the outside when I give it, about 10% of the rasp escapes at the mid rev range and up.

This is what the AR20 looks like inside:

[Sockethead]

The inside looks like the old glass packs we used to put on our cars in high school back in the seventies...
What's that on the other pipe? resonator?

[330i Lover]

My 2005 Mini Cooper got some love today (143,500 miles) :

- oil filter housing gasket
- valve cover gasket
- oil pan gasket
- spark plugs
- fuel filter
- transmission fluid
- engine air filter

She will be around for a while !

All this in 1 day? You go boy!

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[WOLFN8TR]

Trevor do you still have the stock headers?