Hanging Out at MINI Peabody

Posted on by Ian C.

I headed to MINI Peabody at lunchtime to meet Jason, who drove down from Burlington VT today to have the John Cooper Works upgraded suspension installed on his MINI; after lunch at Legal Seafoods, we returned to the dealership to find that Derek (MetalMiniMayhem) had arrived – his current MINI is for sale, and he has an ’05 on order. Later still, Ivan arrived to collect his MINI which just had a clutch replacement …

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5 thoughts on “Hanging Out at MINI Peabody”

  1. Initial thoughts on the JCW suspension upgrade, after about 200 miles of wet pavement, and 10 miles or so of dry:

    For the comfort / performance scale, it appears to be at about the same point as my Borla exhaust. When motoring, all seems right with the world. When tooling around (he said “tool”), most of the time you don’t notice much of a change from stock. Every once in a while, you wonder just why you did what you did to your car.

    The biggest performance difference I’ve noticed so far is much less front / back weight transfer during accleration / braking / lift throttle. I used to be able to get a fairly sizeable change in car attitude by lifting off the throtle during a hard turn (the understeer would lessen noticably). With the JCW suspension, lifting off the throttle in the middle of a hard turn didn’t seem to do much at all in terms of understeer / oversteer.

    Since I really only got to make 4 turns on dry pavement, I cannot say too much about what the upgrade did to the handling.

    My springs are red now!

  2. Awesome Jason you really have me jealous now 🙂 Please don’t tempt me I don’t have the money!

    3M-where are the horns???

    Ivan what did you do to the clutch? You never let us know….Did you take the opportunity to LSDicize it?

  3. Hmmmm, are you gonna paint the brake calipers red to match? Sounds like an interesting upgrade, I’m still contemplating the JCW CAI myself.

    Ivan, this is a good sign, you’re feeling well enough to drive yourself, glad to “see”!

    Chris

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