Finally Finished

[tim2002]

Well . . . I finally finished my 2002 project today. After 18 months of totally stripping and rebuilding this car I was finally able to slip behind the wheel and take it on a short drive through my neighborhood. What a feeling!!! What a relief!

A few specifics

9.5:1 CR Rebuilt Engine w/ 292 Cam

Lynx manifold and 45DCOE Weber

Crane Ignition

Aluminum Radiator w/ Electric Fan

Custom Tilton Brake Setup

3 Series Alternator

SS Header/Exhaust

5 speed conversion

3.91 LSD

New suspension w/HD Bilsteins, urethane bushings, sways & springs

15x7 ROTA Wheels w/ 195/50 Potenzas

Recaro Seats

Esty Carpet Set

Repaint in Deep Atlantic Blue Metallic - BMW color

This is a great site and I have found a lot of great info on this site that helped me with my project. What a great 2002 community!

Here's a few pictures . . . .

[Poderosso71]

One of my favorite color combos....

Great Job!!!!! Congrts!!!!!

[M3M3]

looks good! how could you only do a "short drive around the neighborhood"? :-)

and we all know you are dreaming.....02's are NEVER "finished".....

[carrosene]

The car looks great and I love that color combo. Are those foglights mounted in your spoiler? If so where did you get those covers? They are very slick looking.

Eric

[M3M3]

those look like mesh grates over brake ducts to keep the rocks out of the rotors vice foglights. using the airdam holes for what they were meant for.

[Jim_75Sahara]

Tim: you may have told people elsewhere, but what year, what color, what cond. was this 02 when you started to work on it? I'm guessing it was Sahara originally.

[jgerock]

Great job! The combination looks really nice. Where did you get the covers made for the Recaros? Did you cover them yourself?

[tim2002]

Thanks for the comments and interest.

The car is a '75 that was originally Polaris w/ Blue interior. It had some typical floorboard rust but was in generally good shape.

I got the seats from Dave at Aardvarc Racing - he also covered my interior panels in the same material.

The front spoiler is fitted with ducts that feed to the front rotors. I covered the openings with SS mesh screen.

Again, thank you for the comments.

[schwarz75]

Tim, really nice job; looks great!

[Modifier]

Tim - Love your car!!! I hope mine is "finished" soon too.

Question about the material Dave used to cover your seats. Is it vinyl and what color did you go with? I am going to send my Recaros to him to recover, but trying to decide which color to go with.

[Mike_B]

Very nice!

It looks like you ditched the factory fuses and went aftermarket. Could you provide more details?

[tim2002]

This is the domestic tan vinyl material Dave lists on his website. I had the seat inserts perforated to give a little "texture" difference to them. The material feels great and very heavy so it should wear very well.

[tim2002]

I went with a harness sold by EZ Wiring. I came across their stuff in a hot rod magazine. I did away with all of the stock relays and used the relays and flashers supplied with the kit. I used this same kit on my TR6 and it worked very well - but of course I was replacing all of the Lucas stuff so it could only be an improvement.

The kit is very well made and the wire and insulation is great to work with. All the circuits are labeled and it just takes a little time to work through all of the connections. There are other kits out there like Painless but the EZ Wiring harness is very compact and easy to mount and cheaper. I made a simple aluminum bracket to cover the old fuse box location and moved the new fuse box to just inside the fender - still easy to get to.

I'm sorry I don't have their address but if you Google them you can find them.

[calicolorado]

Looks AWESOME, Tim!! You must be completely stoked! I'm dreaming of this day for my car....

The engine bay looks sweet, do you have any more pics?

[tim2002]

I have a few more pics under another post as an "alternate brake master cylinder arrangement" Here's a few more of the engine bay. . .a before picture also.