With an old car anytime that you are doing any upgrades there’s always the possibility of mission creep. If you are not familiar with this it starts with the mechanic saying “while we are in there”. Here are some things being done while we are … Continue reading5 Speed Swap Update..While We Are In There…
So while driving home from work in traffic, I went to downshift from 4th gear to 3rd and to my shock, the shifter wouldn’t budge! The transmission was stuck in 4th gear! Stopped the car and after a lot of effort I got the car … Continue readingOut With The 4…And In With The 5!!! 5 Speed Swap Underway!
I have been thinking of building a set of coil over for essentially is 1/2″. I wanted the front of the car 1/2″ lower. The problem is when I had the front lower something sounded horrible under the front end and it felt like something … Continue readingRide Height Solved? Maybe!!
Updated my gauge cluster and wow what a HUGE difference! I was at the SoCal Vintage BMW car show and ran across Bavarian Restoration. They are up north in Richmond but made the trip down south and had a display gauge cluster that they restored. … Continue readingGauge Cluster Update
Just an update on the car paint wow it’s been just about a year since I got the car back from paint in Tijuana. I’m very happy with the results still. Is it perfect? No, but to get a better paint job probably would have … Continue readingMy Tijuana Paintjob: 1 Year Paint Update
Nothing new here just part of owning a 41 year old car. It’s just that when it rains it pours lol. So first I have a rather bad ticking and rattling sound coming from the engine bay. Turns out the sound is a cracked header. … Continue readingOld Car Woes
The car has been running great. Problem free. So it’s giving me the opportunity to do some little things to make the car more liveable on a day to day basis. This is my second 2002 and neither have had a working windshield washer system. … Continue readingA 2002 first for me…Windshield Washers!!
Had the chance to pull out the Nikon D700 and shoot a few pics of the car instead of the normal iPhone pics I normally post. In addition to this being the first real pics of the car with the new BBS wheels installed, I … Continue readingNew Gallery…15″ BBS on Fjord Blue BMW 2002
Woohoo!!!! This is a great day. The loooong project BBS is complete! The wheels are installed on the car and look great!! What a process. The one thing that I can say is that I have never seen another 2002 with this wheel on it. … Continue readingBBS Rims Installed!!!
Took the car to Ken Black at Vintage BMW Racing to have him replace the wheel studs. Should be simple and straightforward right? WRONG! #nevereasy So the axle bolts on the rear and the hubs came off easily. Too easily. The drivers side was fine. … Continue readingNew Studs, new stub axle and hub…#nevereasy