What did you do to your NK this week?

[BLUNT]

Getting ready to tear my 65 apart to try the new platform. I was thinking no go as the motor is supposed to be forward a few inches in early cars but Mike Pugh did his 65 and seems to remember shortening it the same as the other 25 2002 5 speed swaps hes done. So we will see. Gonna squeeze the last bit of good driving in first though

 

[Mike_B]

I'm watching this 5-spd swap closely.  I have one waiting for my '64 and I'd love to use the new plaform.

[NickVyse]

engine's sit further forward in all NKs.

[MOJOJOY]

@NickVyse this is my 2nd 5 speed swap in an NK. So far no issues! 

Need new motor mounts as passenger one is gone! 

Platform is centered to where it should be length wise. Need to re-align side to side once I swap in the new motor mounts. No tunnel banging required so far! 

[Mike_B]

The early long-body 4-spd transmissions are 27" from the face of the bell-housing to the integrated shifter center where it comes through the transmission tunnel (no platform on the early long-body 4-speeds). 

 

How does this compare to the 5-spd setup?

[mich02]

Nice job. Show the drive shaft solution when your done. 

[PDWebb]

The day finally arrived, new rims and tires! Very happy I decided to go with the E30 steelies and good bye to the bottlecaps. Elected to go with 185/70/14.

[MOJOJOY]

1800 was sitting a bit low with the 02 coilovers at their highest setting! Installed Longer bolts and 02 strut spacers to gain a bit of adjustment! 

[PDWebb]

Took the NK to the SoCal BMW Vintage meet, always fun to see all the cars.

[HBChris]

Glad you brought her out as well.

[kiva667]

Well this was actually last week but here’s my car loaded for delivery to Midnight Motorsport to do the rear brake job - which was accomplished in good order!

 

driving perfectly again...

[PDWebb]

Happy New Year everyone!

 

Closed out 2018 with weekend drives of the NK, a visit to the Conejo Valley cars and coffee.

 

2019 plans, start the metalwork on the NK!

 

What are your NK New Year resolutions?

 

Patrick

[HBChris]

My NK is at Carl Nelson’s getting a 2 barrel swap modified to hold my early small air cleaner.  Carl says the 1 barrels run too lean at highway speeds and can burn the valves.  Keeping the manual choke as well so it looks correct.  It will see lots of driving miles this New Year, cheers everyone.

 

Chris

[brbrian73]

I love this thread. The updates are inspiring. 

 

What did I do to my NK this week? I dreamt about it. My wife, two daughters and I embarked on a year-long trip to France last summer so that meant that I had to find a safe place to store my NK and 2002. Fortunately, I found more than that. The cars are parked inside, out of the elements, and are even being driven a little bit now and then to keep them fresh. As a bonus, I occasionally receive a picture via email. 

 

All of this leaves me with plenty of time to add to the list of things that i want to do to the NK. The list is comprehensive and growing.

 

Happy New Year to everyone!

 

Brian

[jgerock]

Nice collection Brian!  I spy a 60's Corvette as well.