Mini Cooper S 'Works R53 (Supercharged)

Here’s my modified MINI Cooper S John Cooper works I bought in January 2015.

Started life as a box standard 2003 Cooper S ‘Works, had a lot spent on it in a year. All work done by myself apart from the tune as i’d probably blow it up or cause nuclear fallout or something.

• Big Valve head
• SuperCharger Pully 17%
• 650cc injectors
• Front Mounted Intercooler from Airtec (Hoping to get a custom one made from ProAlloy in Cambridge soon)
• Remapped (EMU ECU)
• Cool Air Intake
• AP Racing Coil overs (At their max height for the winter and because where i’m staying the roads are more like fields)
• Aero Front Bumper with colour coded Aero Grilles
• Adjustable control arms all round
• DRL Function headlights with LED bulbs all round
• Standard JCW exhaust with a de-cat (You can’t hear it over the Supercharger anyway)
• OMP Removable Steering Wheel
• TSW 17” Alloys (They’re horrible, I know) with Hancook 235/45/17 & 215/45/17
• Brake cooling ducks
• Upgraded fuel pump

Soon to have a roll cage put in to make it nice and unpractical - In the words of JC, “god hasn’t made a creature small enough to fit in the back seats” anyway, so no loss there.

For the future if have the time/money;

• Rotrex conversion (That’s a lot)
• Dry sump
• big brake kit (The standard brakes on these are really good anyway so no biggie)

How much power does it make? Honestly, I don’t know. It’s had a cooler air intake and FMIC put on since it was remapped.

• Also removed the engine sound proofing which along with the other mods make it sound pretty insane for a 1.6 (See link) - Never heard a M45 (Eaton M45 SC) whine like this one does!