My 500$ wonder (July 25th, MBC and 42#injectors )

[Pinepig]

Pinepig,

I don't understand the bodywork and the nail thing. To fill in the trim holes, did you weld the nails into the holes? I'm at this point now in my track car project and I'm curious as to how you did this. Can you give details?

Your car looks great!

Thanks,

Mike

That's exactly what I did, find some non galvanized nails with a fairly good sized head at your local hardware store. There are three different sizes of trim hole on you car so you will have to make 3 different sizes. Run one through a bench grinder spinning the shaft until the head is the correct size for the hole you are trying to fill. Make as many as you need for that size and repeat.

Try to get the fit as good as possible, weld them in and then cut the heads off, grind it flush. If you are careful and can keep the heat down you may not need ANY bondo to make them perfect.

[boxy02]

Pinepig, Thanks for the details...I'll likely tackle this after the Thankgiving weekend.

You really did a great job on your prep & paint!!

Cheers!

[audios]

Hi, i just scanned your thread, awsome project man, looks very good. are you running ms for fuel and spark or just fuel? turbo or NA? so you have those honda coilovers in the front and rear or just front? Sorry for all the questions, you probably talked about all of this in the thread, but i was lazy and just skimmed over most of it. happy turkey day

[Pinepig]

MS for fuel and spark, 2 magnets glued ( yes glued ) to the crank pulley and a non latching hall sensor with a home made bracket. NA for now, turbo this winter sometime.

Coil overs are front only.

[Guest Anonymous]

nice job...looking forward to the final pics...steve

[bmw1602.com]

dude, you don't need nails to close the holes....

I can teach you how to do it.

I did all of mine with my mig welder they came out perfect. The nails seam like a hassle. It definately works sure but I think it is complicating a simple procedure.

Boxy02, maybe I can come over your house or you came come to my new garage(I'm moving the car and tools there) at my mom's house in burbank.

no offense you did a great job with the nails it's just, mine took all of about 10 sec with the welder, 10secs with the grinder and as you can see It didn't require bondo either.

just 2 ways to skin a cat I guess....

[Pinepig]

Nicely done.

[Blake]

Are you planning to use the springs included in that kit? what weight are they?

[eggie]

You should stop screwing around with that car and get yourself a box!

Come on Mac, come over to the boxside!

mwoo!

[Pinepig]

Are you planning to use the springs included in that kit? what weight are they?

I have no idea what spring rate they were I meant to put a plate on them and stand on top while my buddy measured so I'd at least have a ballpark range but alas we forgot. So I ran em anyway. LOL Ride is firm but not teeth jarring.

[Pinepig]

You should stop screwing around with that car and get yourself a box!

Come on Mac, come over to the boxside!

mwoo!

Arrgghhh that box is UGLY Mike, how could you buy that thing.

[eggie]

Lol, I didn't buy it like that, I made it that way silly.

I'll bring it up oneday and you'll get to see it in person, it looks better in person.

Hey maybe I'll have a rag top for it and you can help install it.

[Dirt]

Awesome work!!!

Your car looks great. It is cool to see another 2002/Corrado enthusiast around the FAQ.

Thanks for posting up your project. I'm slowly learning my way around my 02.

Pete

[Armond]

I made some progress today,

dropped by pick and pull the other day on the way to work with a template of the door stop hole and was looking at some cheap ( that's me ) way to replace the broken door stops on my car.

Ended up getting a couple of rear door early 5 series ones. They bolt right in and fit in the door jam bracket just fine, problem is they are a little on the long side. Easy fix, just cut a piece out and weld it back together. Took me about 1/2 hour to do both of them and cost a whopping 20$ for both.

Couple of pics showing about how much had to go and how I got the length correct.

Charlie,

I would like to give this a shot. What year did you take the door stops from? Thanks in advance. Armond

[Pinepig]

You do know that this weekend is 1/2 off at pick and pulls again. Come on LSD.

I think they were off a E24?, the early boxy looking one.

I just took a simple template from my 2002 door for bolt spacing and started opening doors in the BMW row. :-)