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
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
This has been a long term project that is near completion. I have posts about the process in previous posts so I won’t go into specifics. I wrapped my refreshed BBS wheels in Hankook Ventus V2 195/50 tires. Since they are ET40 I will need … Continue readingBBS Rims and Hankook tires…Test fitting! #BBS
These wheels began their lives on a pretty hot car in its day. An 80’s era Mazda RX-7 convertible. They were stock wheels for that car. Mazda had BBS make a pretty special wheel for the car. It was a a 15 inch wheel with … Continue readingProject BBS Lightweight! From start to finish.
OK..so I was going to do the polishing myself because I wanted to do as much as possible. I called a local BMW 2002 guy who sells rims and has offered polished lips in the past if he had any advice on doing it and … Continue readingBBS Rims…ONE STEP CLOSER! Look at those lips!