its easy to do yourself...I did mine with a friend and found it to be fairly easy..... since winnie is convertable its a little more challenging, but not by much....Its just loosing a few bolts jiggle and pry the bar out through the side and then reverse...so what bar you getting?

MY garage is available. I have installed at lest a dozen of them.

PM me if interested.

Jack

Lol...I just volinteered my room to host the MOT beer swap...I think that you'll not want me fixing your car friday night
'BLAH! YOu OnLY nede 2 Bolt fer Your TiRe~!!..>WAHt ahre you Tlaking a booot! he he"
but yeah if you and jack don't get it done by MOT I can help out...but I'd try going with Jack since I've only done 1 R53
Btw i did a 19 and I like it much....

I'd recommend getting some advanced driving classes if your going to do that so you know how to handle seeing the back of your MINI in front of you. I took one in NH with the White Mountin BMW chapter when they were doing a MINI ADSS and had a great time, Its also a prereq for the performance driving school. I had such a great time that I'm planning on brining my gf to their next MINI ADSS
So do you work..or do you hover around the forum waiting for someone to post??
(I get out of work at 11 AM your time since its a 6 hour time dif, so this is I'm home and have no life outside of MINIs time)

oh and let me be the first to Congratulate you on your 200th post when you reply to this =)

How much does that school cost?

Our two cars have the 25mm rear bar in them.

Laurie's car Smileee is a S with the sport suspension and the bar is wonderful.
My car is a Cooper (non S) cabrio and has the stock suspension in it.

Bars are set on the center position and that works well.
 
The biggest difference is the car with the stock bar feels like the pivot point is at the wheels. With the 25mm bar the car feels like it pivots at your hips.

When the bar is set at the highest setting the pivot point appears to move to the center of the car.

In effect the higher the setting the less understeer the car has.

For that don't know for safety reasons all production cars have understeer built into them. Understeer is when you have to keep turning the wheel into the direction you are turning.

The less understeer you have the more twitchy the car can become.

I have noticed this in the cabrio with the stock non s bar in the front and the 25mm bar on the highest setting in the back. 

When I ran the cabrio at the Batavia autocross this last summer the car was quite neutral feeling. However I decided to set the car at the middle setting because I was sharing the ride with my step son and I didn't want to have it do something he wasn't used to

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jack

-- Edited by Jack07734 at 14:31, 2008-01-28

bars are ordered, a Hotchkis 25.5mm sway for me and a 19mm Alta sway for the wife!