Davis's Cars - I bought a Honda with a stupid wing

[motortrend]

I don't know about dinan, they're usually overpriced and don't really get you amazing power. I don't know about MINI tuning but at least in bimmers evolve, ess, bpm and some others are Very good tuners. You just tell them What you have done to the car and they write your tune, since the ECU adapts you don't need something too custom.

 

[SVX]

Fantastic car, fantastic work. Great thread. 👍

 

[Davis]

Thanks!

Sometimes I wonder if posting here is worth the effort, but I'm glad a couple people like it!

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So I figured I'd try one more time to get my hands on the Helix intake, this time I ordered it directly from their site... maybe I'll get another sticker to add to my collection.

And I passed 70k today.

 

[Davis]

Awesome.

 

[Zyla]

aw friggin rights buddy time to chooch!

 

[Doodle]

Nice pen.

 

[Dan]

Awesome car @Ferraridude308! I love Minis, but I never knew they made a Monte Carlo special edition. You learn something new every day, I guess.

 

[Ronald6]

The time you spend posting is definitely worth it. I'm envious of what you're able to do, you listed a price for an upgrade that was more than my car cost me.

Keep up the work and keep us updated.

Love those pics of Utah. I've driven there several times on my way to and from Portland Or to Kansas city Missouri, and Utah was my favortite state to drive through. (Or KC Misery, as I call it.) I'm going to have to post some of the great world class roads that are in my neck of the woods (highway 26 to Seaside, highway 101 along the coast, highway 84 on the Gorge) in my thread.

 

[Davis]

Awesome car! I love Minis, but I never knew they made a Monte Carlo special edition. You learn something new every day, I guess.

Hah, thanks! I had no idea they existed until I saw the ad for it. So many little touches in it that most people don't even notice.

The time you spend posting is definitely worth it. I'm envious of what you're able to do, you listed a price for an upgrade that was more than my car cost me.

Keep up the work and keep us updated.

Will do. 👍 I haven't actually added up how much I've put into it; I don't think I want to know. But I'm enjoying the slow process of upgrading it, so it's all worth it in the end... I think.

Love those pics of Utah. I've driven there several times on my way to and from Portland Or to Kansas city Missouri, and Utah was my favortite state to drive through. (Or KC Misery, as I call it.) I'm going to have to post some of the great world class roads that are in my neck of the woods (highway 26 to Seaside, highway 101 along the coast, highway 84 on the Gorge) in my thread.

Definitely post those roads. I spend waaaay too much time on Google Maps looking at interesting roads, so I'd be interested in seeing what you've got out there.

 

[Davis]

All of the parts are here, finally. Sometime soon they'll be on the car.

 

[Davis]

Took the time today to install the aux kit in the glovebox, since I don't have anywhere else to put it.

Cluster:censored: of interlocking plastic trim pieces, hexagonal screws, and wires.

Nice and tucked away in the glovebox.

And that sigh of relief, after cycling through all of the modes, when AUX finally popped up on the screen.

 

[Zyla]

do yer curtsy bud now you can crank up the choochers with ur own dicker'dness

 

[Doodle]

Friggin rights boys!!!

 

[Ronald6]

I saw this at work last night and thought of you dude:

I think thats the first RHD I've seen outside a car show / showroom. Wood steering wheel. I think the tyres are about a foot diameter, the steering wheel is bigger than the tyres.

@Zyle: I have no idea what you said. lol

 

[Davis]

I saw this at work last night and thought of you dude:
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I think thats the first RHD I've seen outside a car show / showroom. Wood steering wheel. I think the tyres are about a foot diameter, the steering wheel is bigger than the tyres.

So so so so jealous. I want a classic Mini so incredibly badly.

 

[Dan]

So so so so jealous. I want a classic Mini so incredibly badly.

Driving one is on my bucket list. Hopefully I can fit in it!

 

[Ronald6]

I almost took a pic of the inside, but without the owners permission I never take a pic of the inside of a car. I'll leave my card on the car next time I see it. He probably goes to car shows and I can get a pic of the inside then. The inside is stock (as far as I can see, but what do I know) and as beautiful as the outisde.

 

[Davis]

Quick edit from a shot I took in GT6.

My car is closer to the standard MINI, since it's a pre-facelift model. Their car is missing the lower bumper foglights, headlight washers, and xenon lights. The premium MINI has an error, the steering wheel is from a pre-facelift car, but being 06, the wheel inside should at least be 3 spoke. In the game it's two.

 

[Dan]

Quick edit from a shot I took in GT6.

My car is closer to the standard MINI, since it's a pre-facelift model. Their car is missing the lower bumper foglights, headlight washers, and xenon lights. The premium MINI has an error, the steering wheel is from a pre-facelift car, but being 06, the wheel inside should at least be 3 spoke. In the game it's two.

So real.

 

[Davis]

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Got up around 7:00 to hopefully beat the ski traffic up Big Cottonwood Canyon. Drove about halfway up without traffic, hitting 70 on the straights, rev-matching downshifts, then blasting through corners. Pulled over to maybe get some footage of this amazing canyon... That's when the traffic started. I think I waited for 35+ cars to cycle through before I could turn around. Started recording, but the camera fell off, just like the last video. So I went back down the canyon with tons of oncoming traffic... didn't stop me from having fun; but it's a little unnerving when a big bad Tundra crosses over the line mid-corner.

The winter made me forget just how capable this car is on tight, winding canyon roads. I cornered so hard one time that my face felt like it was moving, but no sound from the tires.

Edit: And then this happened... https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...-read-first-post.78950/page-1211#post-9506425

 

[Davis]

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[homeforsummer]

Quite like the Clubman. Pity the next-gen Clubman is a lot more conventional.

 

[Davis]

Full oil change, JCW spark plugs, and this finally got put on.

The pulley requires a special tool, which I figured the shop had. They did not. So I ordered it and it should be coming fairly soon. The overnight shipping was almost as much as the tool itself, so I opted to wait a week for it and save on shipping.

I don't care if the intake doesn't add power; the manufacturer claims 4.2hp but it's unnoticeable. The sound though... oh my god the sound it makes with the supercharger is amazing. I recorded a sound clip but I didn't feel like uploading it to youtube.

 

[Davis]

 

[Katiegan]

Love this photo. 👍

 

[homeforsummer]

Thought that was a light dusting of snow or hail on the ground at first, before realising it was blossom...

 

[Clark]

I like this car, in not a fan of the second and third gen Binis by I think the first gen got it right. It some how seems cool in the US yet any one I see over here I hate and I just think they're overdone as at one point it seemed like every other car was a Bini.

Cool special edition as well and not like the stupid 'Checkmate' or Park Lane version we got.

 

[Davis]

I like this car, in not a fan of the second and third gen Binis by I think the first gen got it right. It some how seems cool in the US yet any one I see over here I hate and I just think they're overdone as at one point it seemed like every other car was a Bini.

Cool special edition as well and not like the stupid 'Checkmate' or Park Lane version we got.

For what it's worth, it's more fun to drive than the 2nd and 3rd gens. It has just enough BMW influence to be quality, (because Rover was turning it to 🤬 from what I've read about) but it doesn't feel like a FWD BMW. With every new generation, BMW seems keen on overdoing just about everything, and I really hate it. I didn't buy this car to be in some kind of elite hipster squad-- I bought it because it's fun as hell to drive and relatively small. BMW doesn't seem to recognize that with every new iteration of car.

They're far from every other car on the road here; I don't even see one every week.

Thought that was a light dusting of snow or hail on the ground at first, before realising it was blossom...

It hailed for a few minutes before I left to take those pictures... so you aren't technically wrong.

 

[homeforsummer]

It has just enough BMW influence to be quality, (because Rover was turning it to 🤬 from what I've read about)

It's a complicated one.

The reason the MINI is as good as it is, is largely thanks to Rover - the company entirely developed it in the UK, albeit using BMW money and with some BMW stipulations (the Z-axle rear end and the front struts for example - Rover wanted double wishbones at the front). BMW signed off the styling too, as Rover wanted something a bit less retro.

It's terribly fashionable to criticize Rover for stuff (I'm not saying that's what you're doing, but it's certainly popular on the internet and nuances of the story probably don't make it to the U.S. without some BMW bias) but they actually produced some cracking cars. It was a company ruined by poor business decisions rather than poor product, really. The Rover 75 was almost entirely Rover-developed too and comfortably one of the best cars the company ever made.

Well worth having a look at AROnline's take on the MINI development story if you'd like further reading on the subject 👍

 

[Davis]

The reason the MINI is as good as it is, is largely thanks to Rover

I looked through that website a while ago when that Rover R53 Prototype was for sale on ebay, I read it late at night and got lost in all of the names. Some of those concepts were awful looking so I figured Rover was taking the MINI in the wrong direction. I honestly have no idea about Rover, other than through the R50, are there any in particular, aside from the 75 you mentioned worth reading about?

And maybe sometime soon when this nasty cold passes I'll re-read that R50 article and educate myself.