What did you do to your 2002 today !

[irdave]

Life at elevation...

[irdave]

Quick follow up question; what goes on next?  Really.  Oil pump and pan?  Then the head?  Then ?

 

And wrist pin circlip tool...

Edited June 12, 2018 by irdave

[visionaut]

Life at elevation (indeed)

 

Took a jaunt to Guanella Pass, 11669 ft., via Grant-to-Georgetown, CO today.  The 12 miles of new 2-lane undivided asphalt to the summit == bliss! ?

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by visionaut
PS: thx, view is from summit, looking east at 14K Mt. Evans... (been there in the 02 too)

[BarneyT]

Installed my new rims with tires....

[jgerock]

13 minutes ago, BarneyT said:

Installed my new rims with tires....

Barney- looking good!  Are those plain BMW stickers on the center caps?

[Bibm5]

They look great!
How about a couple shots of the whole car so we can see that beauty with its new shoes on.

Installed my new rims with tires....

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[MitchaPaLoOza88]

Stripping all the paint. Getting excited seeing some progress. Nice to see the original caribe on the b pillars

[Sharktrainer]

This past weekend...

 

Replaced broken valve spring I luckily caught before I torqued down my cylinder head. Broken because past owner used all thread for intake manifold bolts. Last time I freshened up intake gaskets, guess I turned one in too far and was hitting spring and eventually gave (explains that subtle tick) it developed and lunging off line. Throttle response is crisp as f*ck now!

 

New bolts and correct 11mm thin nuts installed that I got from Ireland.

 

 

You can see bolt wedged into spring

 

 

 

Final surprise was I forgot to put spring on blow through carb linkage and throttle got stuck near wide open and pooof went the oil filter gasket, blowing oil everywhere on car. 

 

 

Also polished my valve cover somewhat because it seemed important.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by Sharktrainer

[Sharktrainer]

Got the Ireland billet door handle set to replace my old beat up ones. Photo for someone that never seen other than their website. Scratched up more than I would think is acceptable being new but for the price I guess you get what you get.

 

[BarneyT]

Finally off the lift, really happy with the Cosmics...

[jp5Touring]

Driving west on I-80 Ohio Toll Road today seen a Malaga roundie on a transport hauler today.

Appeared to be in decent shape. Was so envious. Anyone here ?

[I'm SpaghetTii]

Today I upgraded my shift linkage to the late style with an IE dual shear selector rod and short shift lever. I also swapped out the transmission mount with an E21 mount (I could bend the old one with 1 finger, it was about as useful as sticking a water balloon in its place would have been.)

 

One thing I noticed is that the reverse switch isn’t making contact with the DSSR, I gotta find some way around that. (In the image, the car is in reverse)

 

 

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[repoman]

Struck GOLD!!

[Simeon]

4 hours ago, I'm SpaghetTii said:

Today I upgraded my shift linkage to the late style with an IE dual shear selector rod and short shift lever. I also swapped out the transmission mount with an E21 mount (I could bend the old one with 1 finger, it was about as useful as sticking a water balloon in its place would have been.)

 

One thing I noticed is that the reverse switch isn’t making contact with the DSSR, I gotta find some way around that. (In the image, the car is in reverse)

 

 

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 That’s not the reverse switch. That’s a neutral safety cut out switch. 

[I'm SpaghetTii]

 That’s not the reverse switch. That’s a neutral safety cut out switch. 

Ooo I thought it was for the reverse light


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