What did you do to your 2002 today !

[RichenFamous]

13 hours ago, sczapiga said:

Built brackets and installed some E30 sport seats.

Looks great! Did you get the drivers seat to center up to the steering wheel? 
 

I happened upon some seat brackets/sliders from an early e28 that I am going to mount up but they need a little trimming. They are cool because they have about 2” of vertical adjustment and they are the slider. 

[sczapiga]

1 hour ago, RichenFamous said:

Looks great! Did you get the drivers seat to center up to the steering wheel? 
 

I happened upon some seat brackets/sliders from an early e28 that I am going to mount up but they need a little trimming. They are cool because they have about 2” of vertical adjustment and they are the slider. 

Those look pretty similar to the passenger bracket on my seat. For some reason one had a vertical style slider and the other a more burly flat style slider. Maybe one was an earlier seat? Who knows:) 

I did actually narrow the drivers seat rails 1 1/2” which makes it as close as I can get it to centered short of hacking into the trans hump and relocating the center bearing tabs. 

[sczapiga]

10 hours ago, tzei said:

Got some pipe bends. Time for new exhaust...

Nice 👍🏼 What size are you doing and any silencers? I’ve been wanting to do mine

[tzei]

2 hours ago, sczapiga said:

What size are you doing and any silencers?

3,5”. One muffler: Dynomax 17517 - yet to be bought. One flextube, couple v-bands etc. This is for turbo race car.

[Eissmann]

I finished the rear seat bottom and wrestled it into position 

[Chimi562]

Washed off the parts and dried them. Looks way better than before.

[Fortlauderdalian]

1 hour ago, Eissmann said:

I finished the rear seat bottom and wrestled it into position 

Is the pattern on the bottom seat supposed to be wider than the top? 

[slowbert]

1 hour ago, Fortlauderdalian said:

Is the pattern on the bottom seat supposed to be wider than the top? 

 

That's one of those questions you don't ask your wife.

[Chimi562]

Picked up my wheels from powder coating. Came out pretty good, one wheel had some runs but you kinda have to be really close to notice it. The powder coater gave me a good discount on it. Now to get some tires.

[DesertDuck]

Installed new door seals (BMW) and door cards, and of course, the door didn't close too well.    After looking at it, I determined that the plywood door cards were just a bit too long, so I removed them, trimmed the plywood by about 3/8", and re-glued/stapled the vinyl.  Door still sticks out a bit, but closes much better now.  Hopefully, the rubber will compress over a period of time. 

Edited February 17, 2023 by DesertDuck

[BarneyT]

Today we took another ride, finishing the week with 475 miles on the Ceylon tii…so far so good!

 

I’m now working on my e9 coupe You can follow that on the e9 site.

Edited February 17, 2023 by BarneyT

[its55]

1 hour ago, DesertDuck said:

Installed new door seals (BMW) and door cards, and of course, the door didn't close too well.    After looking at it, I determined that the plywood door cards were just a bit too long, so I removed them, trimmed the plywood by about 3/8", and re-glued/stapled the vinyl.  Door still sticks out a bit, but closes much better now.  Hopefully, the rubber will compress over a period of time. 

 

 

I got a message from URO a couple of weeks ago wherein they informed me that there is a design change in the works to make their seals fit better, however, it will be months before they have the manufacturing ability to change them.  Something to do w/ a new location for facilities.

 

 

[jp5Touring]

Cleaning up the new to me seat floor brackets.

Still have some metal to trim off of two brackets.

before

after

[Eissmann]

On 2/16/2023 at 3:50 PM, Fortlauderdalian said:

Is the pattern on the bottom seat supposed to be wider than the top? 

I didn't notice that until a test fitting and by then it was way past the return period. I decided to go forward and finish it and enjoy the project.  

[02Les]

20 hours ago, its55 said:

Something to do w/ a new location for facilities.

Ah, moving from China to Vietnam?  From the frying pan into the fire........that'll do it.