Cooper RSR - Looking good

One of the things that really is important to us in our Cooper RSR build is having the car look good. These days there are lots of different ways of doing that. In the last issue we talked about hooking up with the great people at Rice Rocket Poweder Coating in Etobicoke, ON. Since we announced that, we have been dropping some components off to get coated and the results are outstanding. We had the brackets that support the engine coated in a fluorecent red; once finished the under bonnet area is really going to pop! All the rest of the suspension is going to be coated the same color and when you see the car finished I guarantee you will be impressed by the work that comes out of this family owned shop. They strive to produce a product that is second to none and their aim of pleasing their customers is made so much easier because of that. You can see the front control arm below coated with the same color, contact surfaces for the ball joints ahve been left bare and uncoated. These are brand new arms that I sourced from FCP Euro. Because of the price of the new items it made no sense to use the ones we took off the car, after all they would require sandblasting before coating and who knows what sort of abuse thay have endured in the fifteen years the car has been on the road.

In addition to the the parts mentioned on a previous page you can see the Planted Technology seat brackets we also got coated.

When you take into account that FCP’s Lifetime Replacement Gaurantee also includes use at the racetrack it makes sense you source as much as you can from the Milford, CT based company. I remember having a conversation with noted MINI racer Alain Lauziere and somehow the conversation got around to the knuckles that the front struts are located in. When you lift one you could never saw that they are light. Produced in cast iron and then machined to accept the strut and ball joints Alain has seen these components bend and alter the front end geometry. Because of this and the fact that one of my original knuckles was drilled out in the pinch bolt area I decided to invest in a new pair of knuckles. These were sent over to Rice-Rocket for coating but we decided that they would look good if we color-coded them purple to match our MINI Challenge coilovers from KW suspensions. A Championship Winning Raceteam

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