Nathans R53 Mini

[nathanrw]

I took some okay photos of my POS finally. My buddy let me borrow his camera to take a few shots. Let me know what you think!


Mini by NathanWaddey, on Flickr


BBS by NathanWaddey, on Flickr


Mini Final2 by NathanWaddey, on Flickr


Mini Final 3 by NathanWaddey, on Flickr


Mini Final 6 by NathanWaddey, on Flickr

And a better picture of my finished suede headliner wrap.

Headliner by NathanWaddey, on Flickr

[nathanrw]

Thanks everyone!!

[sterling archer]

noice

[DeleriousZ]

Damn man, those mini's and rs's are like peanut butter and jam!!

[e36rjbmw]

Clean. Id say smaller tires and lower it.

[vgrntbeauxner]

love it.

[nathanrw]

Thanks everyone!

looks nice!

Something is up with proxes 4. I had a few sets all stretched, and 1 or 2 would always get sidewall and orbead problems

Yeah I don't know what the deal is.... I may be trying to find two more 512's if these give me problems again.

[Blumagic]

looks nice!

Something is up with proxes 4. I had a few sets all stretched, and 1 or 2 would always get sidewall and orbead problems

[tyronaqb]

Those wheels look smaller to me, but either way looks clean

[NorCalFocus]

I'm a fan.

[logyt]

beautiful

[nathanrw]

Here's some pictures of how it sits now. They looked a lot better on my phone... Hahaha.







Rear.

Front.

[nathanrw]

Probably would have been smarter if I posted this on this thread and not in my intro thread....
Figured I might as well update this. It's been a while and a lot has happened.
I completely refinished my RS'. I put my 1.5" Slant lips up front and traded my 2.5" step lips for original 2" BBS slants. Powder coated the faces dark grey sparkle, and painted my barrels silver. I reused the BBS bolts again this time after polishing them up again but I am more than likely replacing them with gold bolts over the summer. The wheels are now at 16x8 +24 and 16x9 +24. Perfect for a Mini. I put my Toyo Proxes 4's from my fronts last time I built them on the 9's and found someone selling two 205/40 Falken 512's. Snatched those up and got a good stretch up front.
Anyway, here are the wheels. Sorry for my crappy pictures. I need a real camera.



Also I got my camber plates put on. My tie rods are seized up BAD right now so I have no choice but to order new ones and replace them but after that, I will dial in more camber. I only have a degree of negative camber right now. Also got my new control arm bushings in after having to drop the subframe to get to the bushing brackets. Car rides awesome now though other than my axle vibration from being low.


I think the camber plates some how raised my front end up a little bit.... May do some tweaking to them to get them to go lower.
This is the wheel gap I had after all that.....


I realized that my stock wheels and fat meaty tires had rubbed down the fender arches a lot so I got new fender arches and it made the car look ten times better with those alone.


I also got a JCW style grille a little while ago.


And after realizing the car needed a lot more low...... I maxed out my coilovers.
The bottom perch is where it sits now and where the spring is, is where it sat in the pictures. It's close, but it works!


I haven't had a chance to get a good picture of the car how it sits now but I will definitely try and get some pretty soon. I am going to IA in Atlanta this weekend so hopefully I will have some good pictures after this weekend. I'll try and keep this thread a little more updated from now on.

Oh, and seriously this time, this is coming in a couple months. My payments for school put me back a lot for a while because I wasn't working but I am moving back home in a week so it won't be much longer. I've decided on this for my set up since I need the camber.

[nathanrw]

I'm jealous of the clean kit. I'll fit an S kit back to mine one day.

Thanks. I just replaced the grille with the JCW style grille. It's gloss black and looks ten times better. Once my RS' are finished and I get them put on I will take some good pictures of it.

I like what i see here

Thanks!

[sterling archer]

I like what i see here