CharlieG

A saturday's worth of cleaner wax and a buffer can be quite rewarding.. -Charlie

So, for the drive out to Salt fork, are we gonna be doing a caravan of sorts on Friday? If so, any details? -Charlie

The "new thread" button is not the "reply" button... -Charlie

In the past, the Buckeye Chapter CCA has done a car corral, might want to shoot an email over that way. You doing the Salt Fork meet? -Charlie

X2. This is really pretty easy. Set your baseline, tune it by ear and drive it. Toss a fresh set of plugs in and check on those to see how rich you're running. -Charlie

Psst, that's not an M42 in there. -Charlie

The plan right now is to bring the '02, I've been bringing it back to life and making it driveable for long distances (car sat for 5+ years). So it'll be at Salt Fork barring any catastrophic failures. If you're ever around C-bus I can let you drive the Ti, it's a stick (Gotta be, the Autos are dogs). It needs shocks and new bushings, but overall it's a nice driver. They're a bit more "tossable" than a standard E36, and the M44 feels like an M10 with torque. -Charlie

Gruppe, I shot an email off to Mike a few days ago, but haven't heard anything back from him yet. Has anyone installed their 2002 Center console radio mount with speaker in an early (shorty) console? http://www.parkerperformance.com/store_product.php?item=M000108 This is the part I'm looking at. I guess the other dumb question I have is whether or not it actually includes the speaker. Anyone with experience here? -Charlie

Odd, I snagged one about 2 months ago for 5.85 or so. -Charlie

Dude, they're 5 bucks & change at the dealership, and they have them in stock. -Charlie

http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.asp?pid=412943 Try that, as well as this: http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-e3.html -Charlie

Man, I love that setup you've got going there. This is seriously one of my favorite cars on the site. What suspension setup do you have in there? -Charlie

You can pick up a replacement pump for 50 bucks from most online parts houses, or hell, even Advance auto parts. If you "think" it's original, why risk it to a 30+ year old part? -Charlie

In addition to the pierce link, here's racetep's primer: http://www.racetep.com/webjettune.html It's a Weber 32/36, it's relatively straightforward with 2 screws. It's pretty hard to screw up. -Charlie

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Kumho&tireModel=Power+Star+758&vehicleSearch=true&partnum=87TR3758&fromCompare1=yes&place=2&speed_rating=T&speed_rating=U&speed_rating=H&speed_rating=V&speed_rating=Z&speed_rating=W&speed_rating=Y&speed_rating=(Y)&minSpeedRating=T Too modern? -Charlie

Email addys I can sort of understand, but I'm seeing people type out website URLs in the same way now on here. "CNNDOTCOM". WTF guys? -Charlie

Big time. Door panels are next on the list. Motor isn't bad, odometer is flakey, but it seems to have under 100k on it. Gonna pull the carb apart and rebuild it in a week or so, it definetly needs it and to be tunesd and it definetly needs the valves done, so that's on the list too. Little blowby on 6000+ rpm shifts, but the motor still pulls pretty well. Oil pan gasket looks to be original, so it leaves a few drops after every hard run. First gear is noisy in the trans, but everything shifts well. -Charlie

One more shot, with "shorty" console installed. The 76/69 conversion is closer. -Charlie

That was actually the maiden run with the car. Figured a good first stop would be to get some good German beer. -Charlie

Present! -Charlie

Tossing this up just because I like the pic. 1:18 & 1:1 -Charlie

Gruppe, Figure this is as good a time as any to intro my latest project car. It's a '76 Granarot 02, California spec, so the E12 head, 3.64 rear, etc, all that good stuff. 2375248. November '75 build date according to Mobile Trad. Looks like it was strictly a California car up until the mid/late nineties when it came to Ohio and just sat. Judging by the Bavarian autosport reciepts and unopened boxes from 1995, I'd say it was a multiple person "project car" that never got off the ground. Mod-wise it seems to be pretty much stock save for a 32/36 and some bilsteins. Smog stuff is all long gone. It had a pretty tiny 12 inch lecarra steering wheel on it. Plans for the car are to make it a nice little cruiser, keeping it fairly stock, at least for now. I've got an m50-swapped & gutted e30 on J-stocks and an 8 lb flywheel that's my track toy, so another "fun" car that stays a little more docile for the street would work. The good: Very little rust, practically unheard of in an unrestored car that's been in the midwest for any amount of time. Rockers are good, strut towers are good, front quarters are good, turn signals are good, front pedal box is good. It's a solid car. Owner said it hadn't run in years. A new battery, new plugs and some carb cleaner and it fired right up. The Bad: It's definetly a Southern California car, one that sat outside most of its life. The paint is pretty well baked at this point, and had peeled off in a number of spots on the roof. Little bit of surface rust, but nothing that had perforated. Wirewheel and some sanding fixed that, along with some primer and touchup spraypaint. Not real pretty, but prevents any further damage for now. The interior: Yea. Tan carpet spraydyed black. With the seats and floormats still in it. A nice touch if I may say so myself. The seats consisted of a few strips of vinyl over rusted exposed springs. Any remnants of horsehair these seats might have had was sitting on the carpet below them. The reclining mechanisms and cables were also broken. The wife, while wearing a skirt, was not a fan of the exposed spring seats. The back seat was nothing but an exposed piece of foam rubber, quite classy. Anyways, work has begun on getting this car more roadready. Tossed some rebuilt calipers up front, replaced all the rubber underneath the hood, waterpump, tstat, etc. I'd been poking around the forums for a while trying to find a decent set of recaros, but either ran into no one responding, people asking well above what I wanted to pay, or just dropping off the face of the earth. Then I saw Eurotrash's add for stuff out of the '69 parts car he snagged, which happens to be about 10 miles south of me. The seats were pretty decent for being 40 years old, and still had *gasp* padding in them. Some black vinyl dye and an esty carpet kit later: Obviously still a work in progress, but I'm gonna go ahead and call this an "upgrade" for now. -Charlie

Well allright, how much of a PITA is it to do the seats with an aerosol can? -Charlie

Gruppe, Apon scouring the archives for posts on SEM's vinyl dye, I found a few posts making reference to "brush on" applications vs the aerosol spray cans, but for the life of me, I can't find any place that actually sells it in a pint or larger non-aerosol container. I picked up a nice shape navy blue set of seats and rears with the cloth centers, and am looking to change it to black, I figure a "brush on" would be a lot easier than the aerosol method, but am open to other opinions. Anyone got a good source for the non-aerosol apps of the SEM vinyl dye? -Charlie

Post a location and a decent price. If you're willing to ship, I'd be interested. Pricewise, "average", aka most of these seats tend to be 3-450 for the pair, nice seats can be around 6-700. A mintish set of cloth ones just sold on ebay for like 1100, but that was with "free" shipping. -Charlie