What did you do to your 2002 today !

[Glen Karr]

3 minutes ago, Harvanj said:

Glen, let me know when there is another nice event in Charlotte, I’ll make the road trip in my 72

Harvanj,

The next Caffeine and Classics at Streetside is September 29th.  I'll be there.  Another good event is Auto Fair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway September 6 - 9.  The local BMWCCA folks will be there the 8th & 9th.  We get free tickets and are staged as a group.  

Glen

[Harvanj]

Thanks Glen, put the dates on my calendar, I’ll let ya know if I can make one of the events.

[EPK]

3 hours ago, Harvanj said:

Glen, let me know when there is another nice event in Charlotte, I’ll make the road trip in my 72

Ditto. I live in Mooresville. 

[worzella]

Glen. I will be at Auto Fair so thanks for this post. I will look for the CCA.

 

Randy in Raleigh

[worzella]

I drove, drove, drove with my 13 yr old daughter. She thinks the car is so cool...dad not so much but ?

 

Rolled 1000 miles on my new engine since spring rebuild and getting her on the road!!!

 

Randy

[Jimmy]

Replaced exhaust manifold studs.

Rebuilt shifter.

Installed new shift rod joint.

Installed DSSR.

Now the only play in the shifter is in the transmission.

Replaced giubo.

 

Driveshaft with new CSB is hanging in the car but not actually attached at either end.

 

I fussed around with the alignment of the tranny mount and CSB for a long time. There's no friggin way the front of the driveshaft was aligned correctly with the output flange before. Now the widest gap at any of the four points where the giubo and driveshaft flange meet is less than the thickness of a business card. I hope that's good enough.

 

I'm tired.

 

Tomorrow I'll fasten the driveshaft, tighten up the diff, install the exhaust manifold and downpipe and hopefully go for a satisfying drive. 

 

[ray_]

Fix the cigarette lighter.

[Jimmy]

4 minutes ago, ray_ said:

Fix the cigarette lighter.

 

What's wrong with it?

[jgerock]

6 hours ago, Jimmy said:

 

What's wrong with it?

Think he was commenting on your "satisfying drive"...

[backeis]

Mounted fog lights. Will keep wiring for a rainy day. Ended up mounting them to the bumper.

[Nicko]

Picked up a 1991 318is today to swap over the m42 and 5 speed! Car is pretty clean and came with 2 motors. Pretty excited about the swap. Anyone that’s done the swap and wants to share some info would be greatly appreciated 

[SteveJ]

16 hours ago, Jimmy said:

 

What's wrong with it?

Elwood:" It's got Cop shocks, cop brakes, no catalytic converter so it runs on regular gas.

So is it the new blues mobile?"

Jake: "Fix the cigarette lighter."

 

At least he wasn't like Mr Richard Fader from Fort Lee, New Jersey.

[Jimmy]

Thanks for the context.

 

I got the car back together, took it for a satisfying drive, and very much enjoyed my lack of disconcerting vibration at speeds 45mph and faster. MTL in the gearbox feels good, too.

 

Next order of business; I have what I consider to be a pretty bad flat spot in the tuning. I suppose I should give the 32/36 the c.diesel treatment...

[BarneyT]

Moving quickly to sand blasting and repaint, removed from side lights and reflectors....

[Stevenc22]

Installed a new green windshield on Nikki. Old one had a nice sandblasted look to it.

 

Install went well but windshield seems a few millimeters over to one side. Tried pulling on it with a suction cup but it didnt shift. Decided to leave it for now. Probably fine and i vaguely recall my old windshield being similarly slightly to one side.