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
So I took the car to Ken at Vintage BMW racing to look at the header and help me diagnose it. We determined it was the number 4 cylinder tube near mounting plate. So on my next day off I removed the header and took … Continue readingCracked Header Fixed!
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
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
#Goals Things are moving along on the car! The motor rebuild has made driving the car a blast. I am driving around like a menace and I love it!! Last year I had 3 major things on my list and tons of minor things. The … Continue readingApril 2017….New list of things to complete! #goals