Nonsense Thread

[Chilezen]

FCP Euro should sponsor me for how many parts I have from them on my car. I've consistently had good service and easily reached them both over the phone and emails. Their lifetime guarantee is honored as well, I have gotten good use out of that.
Pelican has been a decent second choice. Between them two, I've never had to fall on ECS or Tuner.

[Northern]

Yes I know... FCP has the same part, but the price was $10 more and the shipping was another $15. FCP is pretty damn slow to ship things though, or is it just me? They discounted my shipping last time because it was multiple weeks before it shipped.

At the end of the day, my cheap-ass tendencies caused this problem lol.

[Chilezen]

Yeah they're a little more, and I will succumb to their threshold for free shipping because I have many parts saved, just for the purpose of bumping up the value of the cart. Am I falling for the consumerism trap? Absolutely. But as of right now, I have a window seal coming with my order that I wouldn't have bought outright. Shipping speed isn't terrible, it's usually 3-5 days for stuff in stock. Plus now that they have a second warehouse in Arizona, things are arriving a little quicker.

[Northern]

Yeah I wish places would do free shipping to Canada.
Some places up here will, but nothing like the usual suspects in the US.

Typically still cheapest to buy from Rockauto, despite the shipping and charging all border fees upfront.



More nonsense ranting - the Mini community is often kind of a shithole for information.
There was a big thread on one of the facebook Mini groups, where someone realized a Tesla X/S rear 4-pot brembo has the same lug spacing and was a direct fit with some shaving/rotor spacer. Looked great with a Mini GP2 330mm rotor, but he didn't share details about the piston sizes.

It looks great, but long story short, while it's a heavy-ass car, at the end of the day it's still a rear caliper and the pistons are tiny.
I dug up the numbers and it's like a 35% drop in clamping pressure over the stock caliper.

[Northern]

Man r3v is really taking a shit today.

808ETA
no idea why PMs won't send, but:
63.7mm Tip to tip
50.25mm tip to centre of hole