@@UtahJohnnyL I recently saw a lifted Kia Soul. He was trying too hard to compete with Pepe, but it just looked garbage. I want this car so bad. You should make a list of all the parts so I can do this to mine in the future.
I have to say this is the best video of a project I’ve seen. Detailed narration. And even without video. I’ve been looking for a sub $1k vehicle to keep it basically cost free. Nothing in mind other than it runs. The vision you had with this vehicle is astounding. I’ve considered an old chevette. I would do what you did. Well played my man. Tires and wheels first and everything falls int9 place after that. I love it
Pepe was spectacular, I loved the whole transformation ,,, I congratulate him. I share that concept of a mini “baja” style, I have a mini countryman, I increased the height and all terrain tires and roof rack. It is not at the level of Pepe, but it is the concept .. I congratulate you, Pepe is a dream and you did it !!!
great video and very nice pepe, seeing your video inspired me to work on a 2004 one that I have and I will do it just like Pepe, soon I will start working on it
Awesome, saw this car at the cars and coffee last weekend and was hoping I could find the owner to tell me how you did it. Randomly recommended to me as well which is strange, wasn't looking for lifted minis.
Wow just an awesome little mini , great build 👍 , gives me inspiration for my suzuki jimny , well done a true showpiece with a lot of valuable time, though and effort put in 👏
i have a 2011 mini i'm getting my hands on shortly and this is total feels right here. i don't know that i'll go with the same tire shenanigans but lift, bumper, top rack, half as many lights :P and hell yes.
Lol, that is a lot of squeeze for the juice! Your skill level is obviously far superior to the average mini owner. And the exhaust sounds like junior got a shot of testosterone and his voice got deeper and louder. What fun.
Hi, I just want to say good job and I would recommend you send this video to car throttle if you want to be featured because they would 100% like this Keep it up ^_^
DO IT. I have my mini countryman lifted 2 1/2 inches with some sporty offroad-looking tires ( I don't remember the specs) that also gives me 1 more inch. I took my mini on a little offroading and after offroading 4x4 cars with locking diffs, I am very shocked at how well the mini's all-wheel drive system is. Two wheels were off the ground and it sent power to the wheels on the ground really quickly. It also drives very similar to stock, just not as sporty. Well worth the mods. If you're still planning on modifying it, I can send links of the tires and parts I used. Have a great day.
L O V E the build; awesome modifications that makes the car look more proportioned than initially intended, such an amazing job! Now, I wanna know if I can get that same exhaust sound on a 1600cc VW type1?
I love Pepe, well done Johnny! I owned a Clubman (non-S booo) and if it wasn't a daily driver I would have loved to do a little lift and less aggressive tires.
Having just sold an R53 Jcw and now searching for a vehicle to drive me around the world, I might start looking at another R53! 👀 Amazing build, great to see a video on how you achieved it!
I’ve had so many issues with my runflat tires because they are so rigid they don’t take any impact so they just get transferred to the rim and because of that I’ve probably been to 8 rims i’ve been wondering if I could lift it and put some meaty tires on it I probably won’t go as meaty as you but this was very helpful
Nose si es muy funcional pero desde luego que quedo súper , excelente proyecto, me gustaría poner un porta vuelto en el techo , uno como este se ve genial, que lo disfrutes
Insanely cool build!!!! BTW, your "prehistoric sideshow " video is better than most of the plainly terrible videos that some of the RUclips hacks put up so please keep up the great work. Next project maybe a K24 swapped all wheel drive mini???😅😅😅
Great video. Two quick questions… How much ground clearance did your Mini have after fitting the Journeys Off Road lift kit (with standard wheels and tyres)? Once the lift kit was fitted, what is the tallest tyre do you think could be fitted without modifying the bodywork? Thanks. Mac
Dude this is un-fucking believable and you should video record yourself doing some of the stuff you mentioned, nothing fancy just pint the camera at the thing your doing, even if its a section at a time and then make that a high speed playing clips with you doing voice over. Anyway just my thoughts, best of luck to you. Love from Cape Town South Africa
The snorkel is just ornamental (mentioned in the vid), thanks and best of luck on yours! I've seen a few people having similar built rides these days 👍
Hi, congratulations it's a great project! How about fuel comsumption ? I don't guess it can stick to the road as before but is it still a balanced vehicle?
Thank you. I did not monitor fuel consumption too closely honestly. The lift and tires did indeed change the dynamics of the suspension as it would with any lift and tires, yes. Cheers!
Will depend on how large of tire you go. If you're lifting a base vehicle, you may not want go that large as it takes away some power. Stock wheels would be fine for a size or two up, but anything larger you will have clearance issues as the offset of the stock wheels is not correct. Good luck!
Great build. Thanks for posting the video and pics. For a few years now I have toyed with the idea of doing something similar to my MKIV VW GTI. Any chance you can dig up what the snorkel was that you used? I have not been able to find one and the one you used looks like it may work for my car.
All was well with the angles. No issues. Running the larger tires definitely affected the performance, so that required the engine power mods as noted to bring it back to where it needed to be. Cheers!
@@UtahJohnnyL nice! Well if you’re ever in Colorado offroading let me know. I’d love to see what that thing is capable of out here. Might do better than my 4Runner considering it’s not super wide lol.
The proportions feel right finally, if mini built this out of the factory I would probably have owned one by now.
This car is awesome. Johnny knows how to build cars.
Thanks kindly, Jeff! 😉
@@UtahJohnnyL I recently saw a lifted Kia Soul. He was trying too hard to compete with Pepe, but it just looked garbage. I want this car so bad. You should make a list of all the parts so I can do this to mine in the future.
This is an absoulty stunning car!!! Showeded to a tone of friends, and a buddy of mine is attempting to build a similar one in Egypt
This just popped up in my feed here.... What a great piece of work mate! Congrats from Brazil!
I have to say this is the best video of a project I’ve seen. Detailed narration. And even without video. I’ve been looking for a sub $1k vehicle to keep it basically cost free. Nothing in mind other than it runs. The vision you had with this vehicle is astounding. I’ve considered an old chevette. I would do what you did. Well played my man. Tires and wheels first and everything falls int9 place after that. I love it
Thanks Chester!👍🏼
Pepe was spectacular, I loved the whole transformation ,,, I congratulate him. I share that concept of a mini “baja” style, I have a mini countryman, I increased the height and all terrain tires and roof rack. It is not at the level of Pepe, but it is the concept ..
I congratulate you, Pepe is a dream and you did it !!!
That thing is so damn cool!
Looks great
great video and very nice pepe, seeing your video inspired me to work on a 2004 one that I have and I will do it just like Pepe, soon I will start working on it
any recommendations to get these rims?
One last question, do you sell that type of front bumper?
I love this project ❤️
This is the mini that I need here for the roads and streets of Bogota🤣😂😅, amazing job.
The changes you've made, make it appear at a glance like an original mini rally rather than the newer BMW which is cool
I saw this on build a trailer earlier today and now it on my youtube feed.
Awesome, saw this car at the cars and coffee last weekend and was hoping I could find the owner to tell me how you did it. Randomly recommended to me as well which is strange, wasn't looking for lifted minis.
Sir schnell gets my vote on this build 👍🏼 miss u bradah
Who dat?
Nice Romancing the Stone reference. Great build too!
Thinking outside the box. Very nice!
I came across this video the same day I got a massive check.. probably gonna go buy a mini now.
Wow just an awesome little mini , great build 👍 , gives me inspiration for my suzuki jimny , well done a true showpiece with a lot of valuable time, though and effort put in 👏
Thanks so much!!!👍
Great Job... Great story... my 2006 Cooper S is just a Ton of fun.
It looks awesome! I lifted my wife’s Mini Cooper and did a Jeep Rubicon build too. My Mini Cooper is lowered however.
great mini. well done
Thank you!
She looks so pretty and wild :). I own a JCW 2013 myself and getting a little obsessed about it. Beautiful work, Jonny :)
Siiiiick, that's Pepe the Frog's car?
(The meme liives rent free in my head)
Based, my dude. I clicked this vid to see if there are any frog comments.
I love the car
Actually, based on Pepe LePew, the skunk. It was black and white when I bought it! ;-)
i have a 2011 mini i'm getting my hands on shortly and this is total feels right here. i don't know that i'll go with the same tire shenanigans but lift, bumper, top rack, half as many lights :P and hell yes.
Lol, that is a lot of squeeze for the juice! Your skill level is obviously far superior to the average mini owner. And the exhaust sounds like junior got a shot of testosterone and his voice got deeper and louder. What fun.
Appreciate the video. Awesome build!
Great video, I need this for my 2016 countryman jcw!!
Love it!! Currently working on a lifted Clubman build!
Insane great build getting ready to build a mini
Sweet job keep up the good work
Man, just an awesome build. I love it
Hi, I just want to say good job and I would recommend you send this video to car throttle if you want to be featured because they would 100% like this
Keep it up ^_^
I agree
Thank you!
Great job, love this build.
THAT CAME OUT GREAT LOOKS BADASS !
This just showed up in my feed, and wow that mini is so awesome!!!! I have a mini and I love it 💓. How much more fun it would be to take off road!!!
S does not stand for Supercharged. It stands for Sport. Nice build though! I was thinking of lifting my 09 R56. Been lowered for a while.
I knew, but thanks for pointing out ;-)
I just sometimes similar and i pulled over to look to see what’s on the internet about a build like this one
Damn man thats sick! Im trying to do the same with my countryman :)
DO IT. I have my mini countryman lifted 2 1/2 inches with some sporty offroad-looking tires ( I don't remember the specs) that also gives me 1 more inch. I took my mini on a little offroading and after offroading 4x4 cars with locking diffs, I am very shocked at how well the mini's all-wheel drive system is. Two wheels were off the ground and it sent power to the wheels on the ground really quickly. It also drives very similar to stock, just not as sporty. Well worth the mods. If you're still planning on modifying it, I can send links of the tires and parts I used. Have a great day.
Man it came out perfect ✊
Thank you!
I would like to also do something like that someday ..because big off-road cars are expensive..so something small like that would work ✊
Nice job 👍🏼
My Countryman would be bad ass with a build like this
I just sometimes similar and i pulled over to look to see what’s on the internet about a build like this
L O V E the build; awesome modifications that makes the car look more proportioned than initially intended, such an amazing job!
Now, I wanna know if I can get that same exhaust sound on a 1600cc VW type1?
Man that’s awesome! I’m just getting into the minis and definitely inspired by this! Great video 💪🏼👍🙏🏼
Pepe is awesome and sound very sweet.
I love Pepe, well done Johnny!
I owned a Clubman (non-S booo) and if it wasn't a daily driver I would have loved to do a little lift and less aggressive tires.
awesome work!
Ohh, I want that.
Loved everything about this
Having just sold an R53 Jcw and now searching for a vehicle to drive me around the world, I might start looking at another R53! 👀
Amazing build, great to see a video on how you achieved it!
SICK RIDE..!!
this Mini Cooper is amazing, just beautiful🇺🇲/este Mini Cooper é incrível, simplesmente lindo🇧🇷
Peeeeeeeepe! Love this build, Cap.
Awesome build 👏
I’ve had so many issues with my runflat tires because they are so rigid they don’t take any impact so they just get transferred to the rim and because of that I’ve probably been to 8 rims i’ve been wondering if I could lift it and put some meaty tires on it I probably won’t go as meaty as you but this was very helpful
Looks really good I have a countryman all4 s that I love!
This is amazing, love the build
Great job pal 👍.
Nose si es muy funcional pero desde luego que quedo súper , excelente proyecto, me gustaría poner un porta vuelto en el techo , uno como este se ve genial, que lo disfrutes
This just came up in my for you page, guess they know I have a mini
need some videos of this beast off-roading
Well done sir
This is amazing
Insanely cool build!!!!
BTW, your "prehistoric sideshow " video is better than most of the plainly terrible videos that some of the RUclips hacks put up so please keep up the great work.
Next project maybe a K24 swapped all wheel drive mini???😅😅😅
Thank you!!!👍🏼
OMG SO COOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I demand more content from you.
Instant classic
Great video. Two quick questions…
How much ground clearance did your Mini have after fitting the Journeys Off Road lift kit (with standard wheels and tyres)?
Once the lift kit was fitted, what is the tallest tyre do you think could be fitted without modifying the bodywork?
Thanks. Mac
verry cool bit of kit ide like to do that with the countryman than put a roof tent.
I think I came across your post on Reddit already!
Wow so cool and beautiful.✨\
this is dope - well done
beautiful car!!
Dude this is un-fucking believable and you should video record yourself doing some of the stuff you mentioned, nothing fancy just pint the camera at the thing your doing, even if its a section at a time and then make that a high speed playing clips with you doing voice over. Anyway just my thoughts, best of luck to you. Love from Cape Town South Africa
Thanks kindly! Have some more projects underway and yes, using that camera now! ;-)
You added a cold air intake... Plus a snorkel?
Love the car btw, it's helped the similar plans for mine, thank you 👍
The snorkel is just ornamental (mentioned in the vid), thanks and best of luck on yours! I've seen a few people having similar built rides these days 👍
i need this hope you will build more for mini for sales
it would make sense if it would be all wheel drive
Sadly illeagal in the UK the wheels stick out further than the wheel arches
should be able to fix that with bigger arches
looks awesome though- what was the total cost of this project, including the car?
All in all parts weren't that much, but I do have a lot of time I put in it. :-) I would guess around $7k with the car.
👁👄👁
Why would I love this to go fishing when the river is 100 yards away........😮
I’m trying to do the same thing, with my car. That’s for the helpful info
My pleasure and best of luck!
Easy Cheap build but dammmm it looks nice
rad build
Hi, congratulations it's a great project! How about fuel comsumption ? I don't guess it can stick to the road as before but is it still a balanced vehicle?
Thank you. I did not monitor fuel consumption too closely honestly. The lift and tires did indeed change the dynamics of the suspension as it would with any lift and tires, yes. Cheers!
I think that snorkel is for a suzuki vitara/sidekick
any goals to make it AWD or 4WD i know that would demolish power but still would be cool.
No, will leave it and will be listed for sale here as it is. Maybe the next owner can take it to the next level! :-)
Thanks for the video. I have a 2011 Mini Cooper Base I am thinking about lifting. Any suggestions regarding using the stock wheels with larger tires?
Will depend on how large of tire you go. If you're lifting a base vehicle, you may not want go that large as it takes away some power. Stock wheels would be fine for a size or two up, but anything larger you will have clearance issues as the offset of the stock wheels is not correct. Good luck!
Great 'slide show', who needs video!
Great build. Thanks for posting the video and pics. For a few years now I have toyed with the idea of doing something similar to my MKIV VW GTI. Any chance you can dig up what the snorkel was that you used? I have not been able to find one and the one you used looks like it may work for my car.
Looks like it was for a 91-99 Suzuki Vitara! Best of luck!
my dream car ugh
Much?
The snorkel is for a Sidekick/Vitara/Escudo/Tracker.
NIIIIIIIIIIIIICE
That looks really cool. What does it drive like?
Never won any races, but drove great! ;-)
while lifting 2 inch on front struts, hows the cv joints angle? does it affect the performance/Function?
All was well with the angles. No issues. Running the larger tires definitely affected the performance, so that required the engine power mods as noted to bring it back to where it needed to be. Cheers!
@@UtahJohnnyL thanks bro. god bless!
Looks super. The base is an R53 Cooper S I guess….
This car looks familiar. Are you in "Safari all the cars" on facebook? I swear I've seen this before. Awesome build, super jealous!
Yes sir, it's been posted there a few times by various folks!😉👍🏼
@@UtahJohnnyL nice! Well if you’re ever in Colorado offroading let me know. I’d love to see what that thing is capable of out here. Might do better than my 4Runner considering it’s not super wide lol.
Oh yesh!
This is Just perfekt.
We need a video of it driving!
Recorded that today! Vid coming soon! ;-)