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Rust free BMW 2002.

Rebuilt motor.

5 speed transmission.

Reupholstered e21 Recaro seats.

Weber 38/38 carb and wide and o2 sensor for tuning.

ATS wheels with excellent General rubber.

New radiator.

Bilstein shocks.

Momo wheel (pictured Nardi does not come with car).

Car looks perfect in the photos, but the chrome and body panels all have dings here and there. It’s a paint job away from being perfect, but looks pretty damn good as it is.

New windshield.

Turn key, ready to go, sorted car.

Alberta registered.

No rust.

$14,000 USD

Thanks guys, I'm happy with how it turned out. 

That red car is one my faq favourites. Unreal. I'm in the process of building up some bbs rs001's for mine right now. 

The look on mine is growing on me. Different, but still looks factory to me. 

I live in a province with the most trucks per capita in Canada. Around here my front bumper is the windshield. ?

Hi guys, I looooove my '76 square light 2002, but I can't stand those bumpers. 

I would love to do a full swap to euro bumpers, but my paint is decent enough and I don't want to splash out for a full respray after welding up all the little skirt and bellow bolt holes. 

Inspired by the CA Tuned S2000 powered 2002 https://catuned.com/catuned-2002-coilover-system-street-setup and this one I saw on the internet https://realartonwheels.com/inventory/1976-bmw-2002-turbo/ my friend Gord (IG: @gordsgarage ) and I set out to cut down a 320i front bumper and cut down the rear bumper on my 2002. 

Here's a before pic of the bumpers. I mean, what were they thinking?

Here's a pic of the bumpers, with the e21 320i bumper on the left and the stock 2002 bumper on the far right. Stock rear bumper in the middle. 

I read here that the 320i front bumper is a better fit for the 2002, following the hood line. It is, but the bumper shock mounts don't quite line up. It's out by about a 1/2" per side. In this case we welded on a piece of metal and redrilled, but slotting the holes would probably do the trick. 

Test fit. This is without any grinding or shaping. Hard to believe it's not from a 2002.

Gord cut it down with a plasma cutter, but a zip disc will work just fine. Then we cleaned up the edge with a die grinder with flap discs. 

We drilled out the shocks to relieve pressure, cut them down to size, and welded back together. Pipe would do the trick here, as there's no more shock absorption, but this seemed easier. These are Gord's welds. If I welded them back together there is no way I'd post a picture of it. 

More test fitting now that the bumper is cut down. We decided to leave a gap, and cut down the rubber shock covers to give it a factory look. 

Same with the rear, with lots of cutting of the "modesty skirt" to give it a factory look. 

I cut down the bellows with a hacksaw, then used a grinder to flatten the mating surfaces of the overlapped section for a better fit. I used JB Weld plastic epoxy to glue them together, and finished the edges off with DAP acrylic latex. Then I painted them with Duplicolor bumper and trim spray paint. I tried using Permatex silicon the first time, but the paint wouldn't stick to it. 

Gord found this entire process very distasteful and too "arts and crafts" for his palate, offering to 3D print some new bumper covers, but this kind of hack work is right up my alley. 

Gord set me up on his lathe to make up some covers for the front license plate bolt holes. I think this was a ploy to get me out of his way, but I am pleased with the results. 

Gord had a metal brushing machine and we tried it out. I like it, but I think I will polish the bumpers again to match my dinged up chrome trim once summer is up

And that's pretty much it. On test fitting the bumpers looked much slimmer and we thought they were perfect. Once the giant rubber covers are in place the bumpers look much larger, especially the rear. It looks great, but I think this winter I will trim another 1/2" off of the rear bumper, and will reshape it to follow the curve of the trunk more closely. I'll have to cut down the exhaust a bit now too. The tips were under the bumper before, but now they poke out a bit too much. 

The car looks so much better, and total cost was a few cans of spray paint and burgers and beer to keep us going. Proper euro bumpers and respray in 2030, maybe. 

Before:

After: 

I hope someone finds this post useful. Square tails rule. 

https://imgur.com/1BOatK0

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Thanks Toby, this was helpful. 

It took some messing around, but I got it working. 

Still needs some dealing in, but I'm on the right track. 

Hi guys,

I disassembled my 38/38 weber for a rebuild the other day. 

I got it all back together without too much drama, and the car seems to be running well, but I don't think the electric choke is functioning.

Before the rebuild the choke worked well.

When I get in the car and push the pedal to the floor to activate the choke, should I be able to see the choke flaps close?

Is there a good tutorial on setting these up properly?

Is there a simple function test to perform to make sure my linkages are adjusted properly? I have power at the wire connected to the choke.

My Behr 320i radiator gave up the ghost and needed replacing. I wanted to splash out on a W&N/Jaymic radiator, but covid has slowed down international shipping and I wanted to get my car back on the road as soon as possible. I was able to find a Spectra CU759 online here in Canada, and just finished installing. Time will tell if it's quality is as decent as the Behr, but I can say that the all metal Spectra looks much more at home in the 2002 than the plastic tanks of the Behr. I lopped off the upper mounting "ears" with a zip disc and touched up with paint before installing. So far, so good. 

Excuse the scruffy engine bay, I beat on this thing. 

I should've bought this car when it was in Edmonton. Saw it for sale on the alberta02 list, and it had me twisted. What a car.

On 4/23/2018 at 8:32 PM, billpatterson said:

Hi Steven (iinca)

 

Damn...I did a good job restoring that car.

 

I am very surprised you are selling her!? I believed you would appreciate her for the long run.

 

Please remove the PDF and link to MY Google photo album. I did not give you permission to use them! 

 

I wish potential buyer and the next owner all the best. I offer you my time; ask me any questions you may have regarding her restoration.  

 

Regards,

Bill Patterson

Vonbimmer, that car is insane.

Another Edmontonian here. My 76, procured with help from Anthony.

On 3/4/2018 at 11:09 AM, Roeland-02 said:

Must be more 02 owners out there. How can we get them to sign up?

Maybe put up a post on the main forum.

The old webbing on the bottom of the recaros was sagging quite a bit, and some hog rings were missing, so one of the straps wouldn't stay attached. Felt like I was sitting on the floor.

installed new webbing and hog rings and can't believe the difference. Should have done this right away.

Do you make any with inserts for 5spd shifters?

Peeled the tires off the bottle caps and had them mounted on some ATS Classics yesterday. Spent all night ripping around town and took some pics here and there. Happy with the way this one looks. All the instagram filters. IG: hoarderesque

Dudeland, sorry to hear that. Maybe mothball it for the summer and come back when you're feeling recharged.

Steve,

when I suggested a single Canadian forum or two sub forums for East and West I was thinking, maybe without foresight, that it would be great for Canadians to do some parts swapping/selling/buying without the hassle and cost of crossing borders and exchange rates.

But splitting it up province by province would be much better for building up communities. There are successful local email mailing lists but they can be hard for newbies to find. 

If you're asking me, provincial sub forums under a Canadian forum would be the way to go.

Diving Board, as the e30 guys like to call them.

I would love to do it like kbmb02 did, and clear up my side marker lights as well, but I want to keep the paint that's on there for now.

william, got any pics of the process?

Those are the heavy hitters for any car scene, no question.

As a guy in Edmonton, I would love to know what is going on in Calgary without clicking into another sub forum.

I would think someone in Kamloops or Victoria would feel the same about a separate Vancouver forum.

For a cars and coffee night, maybe not.

But a yearly meet, definitely.

And hey, it's gotta start somewhere!

Suddenly I feel a lot of pressure!

But I suppose it has to start somewhere. Thank you for doing this.

Western Canada is usually considered to be British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

East would be Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

Agreed, I would think that an East and West would get it started. 

Is it still self service? Could one or two be created?

I was cruising the regional forums and it doesn't appear to be anything for the Canucks.

It'd be great to have one, maybe two (east vs west?).

Or maybe I'm missing something, is there a group that already caters to the Canadians?