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  1. 3elements
    My friend ran into this problem when he inherited a 1970 Ford Bronco with 30,000 original miles on the clock. After cleaning it up and replacing rubber, there was just nothing left to do on the truck but drive it. So you know the answer, right? A second 2002. Your wife will understand...
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    I wouldn't touch that paint job! Way to clean to paint over. (And a Sahara owner, we gotta show some pride!) Nice looking ride.
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    The washer pump on my '74 leaked and let out all the fluid, which was proving to be damn inconvenient on the sanded Sierra Nevada roads, and new ones run north of $90. Found this on a VW Jetta in a boneyard - it's an Audi/VW bottle made by BDO in Germany. Apparently used on early 80s Jettas and Cabriolets and Audi 4000 and 5000s. Not as cool as the round VDO bottle it replaced, but it slides right into the factory mounts and works perfectly, in case this info is useful to anyone else out there...
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    The third car I'd add to my perfect classic coupe stable would be a Lotus Cortina. I've often wondered what other folks here would like to park longside their '02s. Oddly enough, just today I took a look at a 1968 Ford Cortina 1600 GT parked outside Angels Camp. Decent car, less decent asking price.
  5. 3elements
    The third car I'd add to my perfect classic coupe stable would be a Lotus Cortina. I've often wondered what other folks here would like to park longside their '02s. Oddly enough, just today I took a look at a 1968 Ford Cortina 1600 GT parked outside Angels Camp. Decent car, less decent asking price.
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    The PO of my '74 02 had installed the Petronix. Webber 32/36 and it had hard cold-starting issues. I added an MSD 6 module and red coil (and tach adaptor) and could not be happier. It fires first time and runs great
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    Nice description of your process - will be handy to a lot of us at some point or another. Please update with driver's side info when finished!
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    Bought a second dedicated autocross/track day/go nuts car. (Which is now the new plan...) When I got my '74, the original plan was to make it a daily driver and occassional autocrosser. The problems with that are twofold; 1) Daily driver and autocross setups are different, so you're always choosing compromise parts (stiff but not too stiff, loud but not too loud, etc.), and 2) If you break it on the track, there goes the daily driver for some unknown period of time. Of course, I don't have space and time and money for two cars, but that's a different issue entirely!
  9. 3elements
    Round above.
  10. 3elements
    It does look good - worth the wait. Looks like it has nice company in the garage, too!
  11. 3elements
    Shiny, thanks!
  12. 3elements
    Thanks for the paintscratch.com reference. I hadn't heard of them. How many cans did you need? And was there any left over to tackle the engine compartment if you felt like it?
  13. 3elements
    If it's just the knob rattling on the shifter, wrap the top of the shifter with cloth tape (like hockey tape) and reinstall the knob.
  14. 3elements
    If you think we're contradictory now, ask about wheels sometime. Or trim strips....
  15. 3elements
    Is there a reason you don't just have whatever work your current head needs done? I needed valve work done not long ago and got the valve job, a couple of new valves, all new guides and seals and a gasket set for about $530. More expensive clearly, but it was what my head needed, and it was covered by the machine shop if anything wasn't right.
  16. 3elements
    I went with this one, a Pilot model. $20 and looks nice in an '02. (nt)
  17. 3elements
    My vote would be for keeping it. It draws the eye down and sets off the wheels. On the photoshopped photo, the door looks nekkid - needs a big round racing number!
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    My experience as well - the tach adapter won't affect performance. It just allows the tach to "read" the MSD signal correctly.
  19. 3elements
    That's classic. One more instance where the roundies have it over the square-light crowd...
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    Basketweaves, absolutely.
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    The local BMW dealer can get a lot of parts, and there are a few places in the Bay Area that have 02 stuff. But plan on doing a lot through the mail. Believe me, it's worse in Avery...
  22. 3elements
    Looks very nice. There's a Japanese saying, "House done, life over." I suspect it applies to our cars too - they'll never be quite done...
  23. 3elements
    Red Line Motor Oils puts the ideal oil temp between 190 and 250 for their synthetics. I bet the upper end of that would be stressing a conventional oil more than we'd want to...
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    Thanks c.d. and everyone - next time I will start there...
  25. 3elements
    Found it! Was loose/dangling wires coming from the reverse switch on the tranny. When they swung they'd ground and short the circuit.
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