What did you do to your 2002 today !

[Mike Nance]

Thanks @Swiss 2002Tii

[Steve76063]

11 hours ago, zinz said:

All around great guy, Barney Toler let me back in his shop for a 5 speed swap on the ‘72 Inka car. All in prep for MidAmerica in 2 weeks. 

 

Right off the bat the angry wrench had to be deployed when the brand new stainless hardware on the exhaust pipe galled and wouldn’t come off. Cutting wheel made short work of those bastards…

 

 

4 speed is out. I’ll drop the driveshaft off in the morning for shortening and modifying. Hoping for easy things on the install. Using Blunt’s bracket for the Getrag 240 and some other parts he sells; thank you very much. 
 

Clutch and pressure plate are new, and the FW has been slightly lightened. 
 

 

Thanks again Barney for the shop space and time and good company. 
 

Ed Z

Angry wrench 🤣

You'll love the relaxed cruising with the 5-speed.  See you and Inka in Eureka - are y'all leaving Austin Saturday or Sunday?

[Greg R aka Big_Lebowski]

Good visit with fellow 02r Mike at Barney’s shop.  Ed’s 02 on the lift getting a 5 speed swap. 

[SydneyTii]

Nice…. Loving the Octavo’s!!

[Fortlauderdalian]

Cleaned up a crusty E10 rear subframe with my trusty Jewish space laser. Franky the Frog stopped by to give his approval afterwards. 

 

 

[ingramlee]

15 minutes ago, Fortlauderdalian said:

Cleaned up a crusty E10 rear subframe with my trusty Jewish space laser. Franky the Frog stopped by to give his approval afterwards. 

Magic Movie 2.mov 51.32 MB · 3 downloads  

 

Looks awesome. Did you laser the frog too? He kinda has that same color as the finished subframe 🤣

[Son of Marty]

7 minutes ago, ingramlee said:

Did you laser the frog too?

Just what I was going to ask👍☠️, I'm way past hurting anything other than flies, all flies must die.

[Lucky 7]

Diamond quilting continues. I’m working my way toward the drivers door, I’ll leave it for last and hopefully best since I’ll look at it the most. Today was the passenger door. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The french seams are getting easier with practice, same with the diamond quilting. I wasn’t expecting the big curve at the front to be so difficult, but it gave me fits. With the sew foam it gets bulky and doesn’t want to bend around backwards for that hidden stitch. Took me a few tries to get that figured out. I’m really happy with the end result, though. The whole passenger side is finished, now I need to push to car over and do it all again on the drivers side. Drawback of a narrow garage…

 

[tzei]

Documented progress in form of new blog.

 

Forecast shows frost for next week so M2 needs to wait a bit longer. I start to feel the itch thou.

[Fortlauderdalian]

7 hours ago, Lucky 7 said:

Diamond quilting continues. I’m working my way toward the drivers door, I’ll leave it for last and hopefully best since I’ll look at it the most. Today was the passenger door. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The french seams are getting easier with practice, same with the diamond quilting. I wasn’t expecting the big curve at the front to be so difficult, but it gave me fits. With the sew foam it gets bulky and doesn’t want to bend around backwards for that hidden stitch. Took me a few tries to get that figured out. I’m really happy with the end result, though. The whole passenger side is finished, now I need to push to car over and do it all again on the drivers side. Drawback of a narrow garage…

 

Great job, when will mine be ready?

[Fortlauderdalian]

8 hours ago, ingramlee said:

Looks awesome. Did you laser the frog too? He kinda has that same color as the finished subframe 🤣

No animals or amphibians were harmed while making this video.  

[HobieDog]

13 hours ago, Lucky 7 said:

 

The french seams are getting easier with practice, same with the diamond quilting. I wasn’t expecting the big curve at the front to be so difficult, but it gave me fits. With the sew foam it gets bulky and doesn’t want to bend around backwards for that hidden stitch. 

 

 

 

Really nice work!  Love seeing your progress.  The wood panel is a really nice addition, too!  

 

I'm in the process of sewing up my own door panels as well.  For the curve between the top panel and the lower on the front (where the vent window mech. is), I'm going to sew the material together first and then glue the sew foam on after they are sewn up, before I do my pleats.   I'm still actually undecided if I will keep that curve or just go straight across.  I am using a contrasting stitch on my french seams and so any mistake is going to be very obvious.  Note that nothing is glued or put into place in my photo. 

 

Also, if you haven't used it, basting tape makes this work much easier, especially on the french seams.  Beats staples and pins.   

Seamstick 3/8" Basting Tape for Canvas (50 yds.)

WWW.SAILRITE.COM

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This double-sided acrylic adhesive bonds well with coarse canvas fabrics like Sunbrella or Top Gun. Provides even hems and water-resistant seams.

 

[Lucky 7]

46 minutes ago, HobieDog said:

 

Really nice work!  Love seeing your progress.  The wood panel is a really nice addition, too!  

 

I'm in the process of sewing up my own door panels as well.  For the curve between the top panel and the lower on the front (where the vent window mech. is), I'm going to sew the material together first and then glue the sew foam on after they are sewn up, before I do my pleats.   I'm still actually undecided if I will keep that curve or just go straight across.  I am using a contrasting stitch on my french seams and so any mistake is going to be very obvious.  Note that nothing is glued or put into place in my photo. 

 

Also, if you haven't used it, basting tape makes this work much easier, especially on the french seams.  Beats staples and pins.   

Seamstick 3/8" Basting Tape for Canvas (50 yds.)

WWW.SAILRITE.COM

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This double-sided acrylic adhesive bonds well with coarse canvas fabrics like Sunbrella or Top Gun. Provides even hems and water-resistant seams.

 

Looking good!  Love that red. 
 

Funny timing on the basting tape, I just found out about that stuff like two days ago.  Thanks for the recommendation.  I ordered a roll and will definitely be using it for the rest on my project. To this point I was just tacking it over with duct tape.  Red Green would be proud. 
 

I thought about doing the main panel sewing first, as you mention, but the diamond quilt shrinks the panel in all directions, so it’d wouldn’t have worked. I also wanted all of my quilting top stitch to die into a seam to avoid any unraveling. With the straight lines you’re doing, I don’t think that should be a problem.  
 

Not sure what year your car is, but on square tails the curve up front became a hard angle on that top panel around the butterfly knob. I very nearly went for that design as I figured the straight lines would be much easier. Of course I ended up going for the harder curve, because…well, I have a problem. 😂

[AceAndrew]

Ever since @zinz showed me a picture of his beautiful 2000cs knob, I wanted one.  Luckily @bmwguy323 had one for sale.

 

Refinished to match the Nardi.  Haven't done much wood refinishing, so this was subject to a steep learning curve and limited tools (a la' drill-turned-lathe).  Have a lot more respect for you wood workers now.

 

Making list to keep as reference for when I inevitably forget again: 

-disassembled knob

-Sanded down with 80 grit and back up to 2000 grit, stained.

-Applied starbond CA glue (1 coat thin, 5 coats medium, 2 coats thin).

-Sanded w/ 320 up to 2000 grit.

-Polished w/ EEE wood polish

-Finish polish w/ fine scratch polish 

 

 

 

 

[BeMyWay]

Ace...you drilled that!

 

Very nice work...thanks for the instructions.