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  1. Price: $899
    Location: Federal Way, WA


    Description:

    This custom Weber 38/38 cold air intake solution for the 1968-1976 BMW 2002 M10 engine was hand-crafted by Road Rockets, a BMW tuning shop located at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

     

    Per the builder:

    "The carburetor has been re-jetted. A custom EGR port block-off plate & gasket has been added. A phenolic insulator base plate with gasketed surfaces has been installed.  This insulator is valuable is reducing the heat absorbed from the intake manifold by the carburetor, thus keeping the air passing through cooler, more dense, thus making more power, compared to just bolting the carb directly to the manifold.

    An upgraded carb without the cold air intake and just mounting one of those rectangular chrome filter housings atop it that draws warm air from within the engine compartment undermines your performance by compromising the density of the air supply. The other downside of those is the loss in the volume of air that you can draw as the actual filter surface area of those filters is a fraction of the stock cold air intake.

    Note: It is important to reuse the original short, double-studded rubber mounts on the circumference of the filter housing in conjunction with the original steel brackets (see picture) to provide additional stabilization for it.

    Pre-tuned and tested with the following stats:
    Idle 45
    Main 145
    Air 170
    ET F50
    Vent 26
    AV 4
    Pump 70"


    Includes seals for manifold. Manifold, carb & custom parts all new. Cold-air intake base used.

    (please note, I'm out of town this week and will return on 10/7.  Can ship immediately after that or show it to you if you're local.  Thanks)

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  2. Price: $1
    Location: Federal Way, WA 98023


    Description:

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    "OBI-WAN (aka bmw2002faq members), you are this 76's only hope!"

    I need to sell this little guy as much as I have come to love him.  There's a new project on the horizon and I only have so much garage.  Wife wants a tear drop camper.  Happy wife, happy life. 

    So: Roll the 2002 out of the garage, put a denver boot on it and start next project. 

    I wish.  I can't do that.

    Happy HOA, no nastygrams in my inbox:  RVs, project cars, etc are great as long as they remain safely hidden in your garage.

    So I need to sell it.

    I tried:

    • Craigslist - scammers all day every day, not much else
    • OfferUp - Lots of "Is it still available", "Will you sell it for the price of a spare tire?" and "Do you want to trade it for my grandma?"
    • EBay - a zillion WATCHERS, few bidders
    • Facebook - Opinions are like you know whats and there's WAY too many of them (FB marketplace please ESAD)

     

    Anybody want it?   You guys most know what I did to this thing good, bad and otherwise.  (Mechanically I'm a duffer and autobody... well lets just not go there.  lol.)

    This is what I bought a year or so ago:

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    and this is what I did to it:
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    I replaced all the bits I could: hood & grill (used from Henry), front fenders (new from Wallothnesch), doors & trunk (used from Patrick@Midnight), carpets (new from Esty), seats (used) and door panels (new from TurtleLabs).   I added a switched dual USB to the dash.  Repaired surface rust* with ospho & por15 where I couldn't replace the metal.  Did some bad bondo-ing in a couple places (I have Essential Tremor.  Sorry, pretty is beyond me.  Hands shake too much.  So always just shooting for functional). Painted it (not well, but functionally).   Videos of it running both directly out of BIll's shop in Sonoma, CA (after which he drove it 700+ miles to me) here:

     


     and here last weekend (apologies for my shakes, I had no copilot):
     


    I'd love to get $7500 out of it. ?

    Regarding the * above, some additional informational pictures follow with comments:

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    window-frame-hole-repair.jpg

     

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  3. 11 hours ago, Mike Self said:

    Also...the Weber's throat openings (where they meet the air cleaner body) are rectangular, while the opening in the air cleaner is oval.  For optimum air flow, they should match

    Bill:

     

    put considerable time into locating a plate with two holes, matching the the carb and the manifold, only to be acutely disappointed when the package arrived with an oval opening which is the most common gasket and insulator. Rather than further delay the delivery, that common sub-optimal part was installed. It is the only part of the entire assembly that is not optimized.”

  4. In November of 2020, I discussed upgrading my Solex to a Weber 38/38 w/ modifications necessary to retain the cold air intake and still be able to close the hood.  Bill Watson of Road Rockets at Hyperion Raceway, Sonoma took on the project.  The product of his efforts arrived this weekend.  I haven't attempted to install it yet.  I'm curious what thoughts you sages have on it. 

     

    Modifications as he described them to me are as follows:

     

    • Carb re-jetted for optimum 2002/M10 performance
    • Phenolic insulator base plate installed (to keep the cold air cold)
    • Aforementioned adapter for cold air intake w/ custom doubler plate
    • Custom EGR port block-off plate

     

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  5. When you want to fix that hole under the windshield without taking it out or cracking it getting the metal too hot.  
     

    1. Shape a piece of steel to match the curve

    2. fit it. 
    3. drill holes

    4. spot weld one

    5. let the steel cool

    6. Slowly repeat 4 & 5 until complete 

    7. prep for fill.  
     

    fugly but functional 

     

    #ratrod

     

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  6. On 9/27/2016 at 9:13 AM, '76mintgrün'02 said:

    this one wins points for artistic expression, in spite of being slightly off-topic...sorry.

     


    Awesome one. ?  From John Muir's VW book illustrated by Peter Aschwanden
     

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    (When I was struggling to find an 02 I could afford, I seriously considered doing a VW instead.  Glad I found the 02 instead, but enjoyed this book for style and content and the fantastic art)

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  7. 11 hours ago, Mark92131 said:

    What intake manifold are you receiving?


    an excellent question to which I don’t have an excellent answer.   
     

    The car itself and this upgrade are both from Bill Watson of Road Rockets in Sonoma, CA.  The custom manifold porting is modeled on what he says is the most efficient intake upgrade his shop has produced referencing Kenny Augustine as the source of the original’s inspiration.  It’s being provided with a Weber 38/38 carburetor and a custom adapter to allow the stock cold air intake to be used without making contact with the hood.  This solution is currently being tested on a donor 2002 at Sonoma Raceway and will be shipped to me in a few weeks.  

  8. Shortly I will be receiving an intake manifold, new carb and custom cold air intake adapter to replace the stock manifold & solex carb.  While I have the intake manifold off and whatever is beneath it/nearby exposed, is there anything else I should attend to just cuz I can while i'm in there? / Are there things (maintenance-wise) that one should do in conjunction with this swap? 

     

    Thanks 

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