My wife took some photos of the Mini on its way to its temporary home. I liked a few of them. More to come...
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Well my Mini is officially in storage until I have a new home with space to tinker with it. It's a very sad day but I'm hopeful this will be a temporary situation and that it will come out the other side to a much better equipped garage. Since my current garage was shared with other tenants of my complex, I was never able to fully spread out. I'm hopeful my new home will have enough space for a work bench and a place to put an air compressor. In a dream world, I would be able to install a lift as well, but that's a bit of a dream.
However, the world continues to turn and my brain keeps on churning. Along with my hopes for a better equipped garage, it means I can hope to be more ambitious. I've talked for a while about rewiring the Mini to hopefully solve some of the issues I've had with my horn, turn signals, guages, wipers, headlights and so on and so on. Today's inspiration comes from mtymous on The Mini Forum and his excellent post on HID retrofitting. He was able to modify a set of crummy eBay projector lenses with some Acura TL bi-xenon projectors. This is a project that I would love to tackle and just adds to my list of things to come. I have done some research and found The Retrofit Source to be an excellent starting place. They offer for sale numerous HID compatible projector lenses. It seems to be a pretty managable project for a weekend. I imagine I will still want to upgrade the wiring before I tackle this project, but it gives me something to look forward to during the next couple Mini-less months. I will just have to continue updating my magazine archive. |
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