What did you do to your 2002 today !

[Lorin]

^ That color looks plenty fast, Ken. 

[slowbert]

Cleaned up the fuse box. Dunked it in HCl and brushed it up. Thanks to a new card from a forum member, it is ready to start figuring out which wire goes where. 
 

Spent a bunch of time repairing miscellaneous wires and starting to get circuits ready for testing. 
 

My ‘72 had the left hand switch replaced by the PO 30 years ago and ripped out lots of wires. This was the switch that only dimmed the lights and would be broken accidentally because drivers are not used to it. 
 

My plan is to replace that switch with a later model turn signal/dimmer switch, but I need to slice all that in. Maybe next weekend. 
 

 

[its55]

Exhaust header reinstalled, alternator bushings replaced, dist. cap/ plug wires reinstalled, missing exhaust bracket installed, resonator section installed…

 

 

[PapaG]

VIN plate in - first things first.

New door brakes in.

Beginning install of front harness.

Refurb'd the very dingy rear side markers.

 

 

[its55]

On hold for a few days - had to order a pipe-expander thingy to get the muffler attached to the resonator pipe...

 

 

 

 

[BarneyT]

Spent the whole day working on installing two seats, started this morning with mounting the slides and I noticed that the upholstery guy had put the seat back for the driver side onto the bottom for the passenger side… so I had to redo those in the process I realized that one of the cables that works the fold forward function had broken, so I still have to repair that, but I did get one seat installed…

[d.hitchcock]

Got my laptop set up to do data logging from the Electromotive ecu, 🙂 and made my first run file, just recording engine performance on a 20-minute highway drive.
 

[BarneyT]

Tires and wheels installed this morning, finished the trunk area yesterday…plate holder and lights, covered side panels in trunk to match new vinyl on floor panels…making good progress a week are so to finish line.

Edited December 7, 2022 by BarneyT

[jimk]

17 hours ago, d.hitchcock said:

Got my laptop set up to do data logging from the Electromotive ecu, 🙂 and made my first run file, just recording engine performance on a 20-minute highway drive.
 

Looks familiar.  I tuned a TecIII and a TecGT on my car and a TecIII using logs on this car in Cali.

[D.martijn]

Some more fitting and fiddling with the two wheel housings on the Touring

The reason we removed the outer wheel housing as well was since both halves didn't line up very good on the inside edge (there was more than 5mm difference front to back)

 

After clamping the outer halve to the inner halve and using some cleeco clamps we got close but some how the wheel arch lip that needs to sit inside of the wheel arch lip of the quarter panel wasn't lining up very good with the remaining section of lip that's on the quarter still.

Again several times adjusting both halves and getting it screwed together with some selftapping screws we got pretty close. I think we just have to be content with some middle ground while still maintaining the measurement of the spring mount in it's proper position. the outer housing lines up pretty good with the lip of the quarter, at the front it's still sticking out a little, I guess we'll have to massage it a little when we get to replacing the full wheel arch.

 

Here's where we got in the end.

 

The lip of the inner wheel housing it a little small towards the back, you can see the orange panel sticking out behind the black. we might weld a little strip on to it to make it line up with the outer wheel housing and also making some more space to get proper spot welds in

The front is sitting a little lower than the original panel but it's only stitch welded a couple of time over the whole perimeter

 

So with the wheel housing in it's position, we decided to test with the rocker and the remaining section of the outer wheel well housing that we cut off in the beginning of this whole repair. The lower edge of this section should sit just flush with the underside edge of the reinforcement panel.

However when fitting the rocker, the lower edge touches the right corner piece so we'll have to cut some more material off (horizontal line). it looks like the new genuine panel from BMW still needs some adjusting

The little lip on the right also needs to move up since the outer quarter panel is also spotwelded onto it.

[Fortlauderdalian]

Started working on fixing sun damaged upholstery and rear shelf.  Previous owners stored a metric shit ton of old carpet under the rear seat, luckily it was dry and the only crud was limited to the bolts for the rear frame straps. Can you buy rear seat back upholstery by itself or only the whole kit? 

 

 

Edited December 9, 2022 by Fortlauderdalian

[stephers]

I got just he back piece from World Upholstery    it was for a 71 and the texture and style was very good. matched the bottom section very well.    Fit was pretty good, had to add some foam at the ends to fill it out a bit more but over all very nice

 

Thanks, Rick

[bmw_e30]

2 hours ago, stephers said:

I got just he back piece from World Upholstery    it was for a 71 and the texture and style was very good. matched the bottom section very well.    Fit was pretty good, had to add some foam at the ends to fill it out a bit more but over all very nice

 

Thanks, Rick

 

throughout the years world upholstery i heard is legit. can you confirm?

[stephers]

Yes, absolutely !

 

Thanks, Rick

[2002#3]

Today I started to rebuild a 32/36 Weber of X age, X miles, and X condition. The carb came from the engine I am building.  

 

Water choke fell/crumbled apart so now I need a water choke.  Hint.  Hint.  See WTB in Classifieds.  Might decide to go manual.

 

Larry