What did you do to your 2002 today !

[Mike G]

Weighed the rear subframe with shocks but no brakes 

[d.hitchcock]

Finished off installation of my Blunt Tech 5-speed swap kit. Wow, what a difference in driveability.

The Blunt Tech kit is excellent. My previoius 5-speed shifter seemed to bind up. It was basically impossible to shit hard & fast from first to second. It felt vague, not crisp and mechanical. The deck mounted with a rubber rear mount that I broke twice while autocrossing or on track.

I can shift the car now with two fingers and without the first-second binding issue. The throw is shorter and it feels tight and mechanical now.

[irdave]

Got the ABS pump out, with a little over 5 pounds of wiring harness. So looking forward to tidy simplicity.

 

M12 impact driver for scale...

[tzei]

Since lower outer skins are out of stock  I thought whatta heck i'll go for it. One side starts to form. One to go.  

Edited December 3, 2020 by tzei

[Fortlauderdalian]

I started cleaning the undercarriage up a bit and was wondering what would be the best product for protecting metal without looking like I’m trying to hide anything. The wire brush I’ve been using takes off all the surface dirt and caked on crap and I’ve not seen any surface oxidation that hasn’t comes off easily. 

 

 

[Mike G]

Jigged the subframe 

[SydneyTii]

51 minutes ago, Fortlauderdalian said:

I started cleaning the undercarriage up a bit and was wondering what would be the best product for protecting metal without looking like I’m trying to hide anything. The wire brush I’ve been using takes off all the surface dirt and caked on crap and I’ve not seen any surface oxidation that hasn’t comes off easily. 

 

 

I use this product now, tried everything and this is extremely good.

https://www.bilthamber.com/corrosion-protection-and-rust-treatments/

[LindrelT]

Finally got to meet my new car!  Bennie is a 1971 ‘02 part way done as a Ti tribute.  Delivered a day early so garage wasn’t ready - oh well!   Finding the bmw2002faq forum gave me confidence that buying a 49 year old car was OK.  I have gained a new car AND a bunch of new friends!!

[BarneyT]

Four of us  (Terry Sayther, Ed, and Greg) from Austin drove to Houston to see Lindrel’s new car, Well not really we drove to Houston to meet up with the Houston WhatsApp group of 2002 Owners and Lindrel just happen to be there...his car is beautiful. We had a wonderful visiting meet and greet with the Houston guys it was a pleasure to meet everyone.

 

Allowed me to put 450 miles on my just finished 72 Tii Up to almost 1100 miles 450 of them happening today car ran great made, we made there and back safe and sound.

 

many thanks to David Lam and Steven for inviting us and putting this on...

[tomphot]

Crewed for my friend who was racing NASA this weekend at Road Atlanta. 
 

[zinz]

12 hours ago, BarneyT said:

We had a wonderful visiting meet and greet with the Houston guys it was a pleasure to meet everyone.

It was a very good day. The Houston group has some very fine cars...wow! Several original owners and a genuine Turbo, too. Very impressive display of hardware. 

 

More event pictures here:

 

https://www.lftphotography.com/MotorSports/Houston02GruppeDec2020/Houston-02-Gruppe-CC-Dec-2020/

 

 

Ed Z

Edited December 6, 2020 by zinz

[2002#3]

...built a second workbench for my '02's.

 

[uai]

drove through Black Forest and back

 

 

[Mike A]

The goal is to get it to look as it did when it rolled off the showroom floor, stance included....finally got the 5.5 “ wheels and hubcaps on

[Conserv]

33 minutes ago, Mike A said:

The goal is to get it to look as it did when it rolled off the showroom floor, stance included....finally got the 5.5 “ wheels and hubcaps on

Congrats, Mike!

 

These cars always look so... crisp and elegant in their original steelies and full wheel covers.

 

(Those rims should be 5”, unless you’ve banded them! ?)

 

Best regards,

 

Steve