1970 2002 Project

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This car was a california car when new then moved to the mid-west partly through its life. I *think* I'm the 4th owner.

I've been steadily working on making improvements and I thought I'd document them here.

I bought it in February of 2006 in Chatanooga. We are in Atlanta now.

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the only other rust is in the spare wheel well. the rest of the car is in very good shape.

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obvoiously this was a short lived carb setup...it had to go.

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these were 320i seats I think, and not in very good shape. The needed to go too.

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after 6 months, I've made some progress

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winter 2006 pulled the head. I knew sometihng was wrong, the side-draught modification helped, but not a hell of a lot.

the results were impressive. the #2 cylinder valve was not seating anymore, so there was no compression in #2. the rest of the valves were pretty crappy too.

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bench testing new manifolds and carb butterflies and linkage.

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latest addition to the family was born June 20, 2007, weighed 9 lbs 9 oz. Caleb Poole. Big brother Benjamin and big sister Amelia are very happy to see him.

Jon