Classic Cars Live!

Great day over at Mondello on Sunday, lovely weather and a great selection of cars. I'd say there are some very crispy people out there today after getting way too much sun. Pity I didn't make it over in the 02 but it's a great incentive to have her properly ready for next year. How much are those Koni Shocks....

Anyway Fair play to BMWCLASSICSIRELAND for making it over, think there were seven 02s there. John's Verona Tii, Miles's Tii, Tom's (Formerly Dave's) Chamonix touring, Killians red 2002, John's blue tii racer, a slightly crusty 2002 that belongs to Geoff and a peach of a '67 1600 Alpina that belongs to Robin. Tom has informed me that Geoff's verona is running a NK 2000 Ti engine on twin solexs and is poly bushed up front, looks can be deceiving! Robin's motor is an absolutely fantastic car, would defo give Tony's Tii a run for it's money. Left the factory as a Ti with twin carbs, 5 speed box, LSD and leather recaro seats. Also spotted an 1800 that I think belongs to someone in the IVVCC.

Chamonix 1800


Robin's 1600 (what a car!)



Spot the Testarossa in this one, not hard.

Here's a quick video from my phone, it gives an impression of how scarily close the cars get!

Why I like cars

Point in question: you can visit friends in them.



Always nice to see friends on a sunny Tuesday evening after work, especially when the motor that gets you there is a 2002.
Pictured here on Sean's road with Sean and Dave, that's the closest that jersey will ever get to rugby tackling someone :D

Jay Leno's 2002

5:08 into this clip, right hand side. Same colour as mine. Apparently he is a big fan of the 2002 and has written a few articles on it. The search is on..

150 Km and loved every metre

Had an absolute blast this weekend burning about the place in the 02. Managed to put about 150Km under my belt over a sunny Saturday and Sunday. No breakdowns or complaints. Discovered that one of the springs on the throttle linkage is possibly a bit weak and doesn't quite send the linkage all the way home. Will clean it or replace it if necessary. Nothing major though :D

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photos courtesy of Gail's mam Ann.

Taking it up

Managed a longer spin in the motor last night. Did a few laps of the block and got her up to 50mph. I have to be seriously careful as I have a bit of a heavy right foot. Might try a quick motorway dash tonight and go for the 60mph. Hopefully she'll be fine. I reckon she's capable of a fair bit more than that too.

More to come...

once around the block

Managed to drive the car around the block last night without any trouble. She's actually running better than ever but I only brought her up to 40mph. Will go for 50mph tonight if the weather holds.

Eamon, a nice neighbour, came over the other evening and gave me some great help and advise on getting the points set up correctly. Looks like the idle jet could have been causing problems too so cleaning that out helped. Over the course of an hour or two we tried 3 different sets of points and numerous attempts at setting the idle speed before we got it to where it is now. Hopefully it'll last.

Good times!

hokey pokey

You put the new points in, new points out

old in, old out

you shake them all about

Do the hokey pokey and turn the key

????

watch this space

Cleaning out the Carb

The introduction of new points and a new condenser into the distributor hasn't fixed my stalling issues.
I have also changed the vacuum advance pipe from the dizzy to the carb and ensured that the diaphragm in the dizzy is still working.
I have taken the airbox back off the motor and am currently cleaning out the carb. Hopefully cleaning out the jets and the float needle will sort it. Fingers crossed!!

Top of the Carb casing with float needle still attached.

Float chamber and throttle on still fitted to the manifold.


Float needle and idle jet taking a bath in carb cleaner.

Airbox finished

Before:


After:

Airbox update!

Got the angle grinder but was a bit late to be annoying the neighbours. Did do a sneaky little bit though.



This blogging stuff has gone a bit OCD on me.

More Recent Photos

Airbox Restoration

As I've been waiting on parts I decided to pull the airbox off the car with the intent to respray it as it's a real eye-sore in the engine bay. My weedy dremmel isn't really cutting the mustard so picked up a wire brush for the angle grinder today. Just need to get the grinder off Dad now.

I'm thinking of painting the airbox jet black, hopefully it'll look good!

You can see where I've taken some of the paint off already.

No parts today

No parts have arrived yet...

Was hoping to do the valve clearances over the weekend and swap out the points.

Fingers crossed they arrive later on.

mtc...

Never let a sleeping dog lie

Those of you who know me will know that I can never leave well enough alone. Although my parts haven't arrived yet I decided to do a bit of tinkering around with the car in the hope (false) that I could get her idling at low rpm without stalling.

I turned my attention to the fuel pump thinking that if there was any issue with it I'd be getting fuelling trouble. I have an inline fuel filter fitted to my line but it's after the pump. Was there when I got the car and something I'll be fixing. I pulled the filter out of the pump, this is the first stage of filtration, and was confronted with a lot of crud.



Unfortunately, it didn't make a difference to clean it out but at least I felt like I was doing something. Who was it that said "Doing something is better than doing nothing"? Probably Bear Grylls or some other idiot like that.

Lovely 3.0CS Resto

Take a look at the work involved in this restoration.

Before:


After:

Good news for people who love bad news

Well last night I brought the car out for a decent run. Went all along the coast past Clontarf etc and ended up in Portmarnock. Handy as I was able to give Gary a little run out in her and get the tail sliding for him (a tiny tiny bit but got a squeak out of the tyres).

Then it was back down the Malahide road, N32, M50 and back through Ballymun to Glasnevin.
Problems started at Collins avenue. She started surging as I was going at about 30mph down the ballymun road. I shifted down to see if I was just going too slow for 3rd gear and it didn't help. Then as I was slowing down for red lights, traffic, etc she'd just cut out. Felt like a no fuel scenario even though there's a load in her.

So next step is to check the condenser, contact points and to have a look at the carb to see if she's running lean. Nothing worth doing is ever easy eh?

more to come....

Real Work

The 02 had some major work done today.

Massive thanks to Dominic and Calumn (sp?) over at DC Autofit in Ballycoolin.

The propshaft to gearbox rubber coupling (Guibo) was replaced for a new one. Mine was pretty shot and if it had failed it could have damaged the flange on the gearbox. Needless to say I'm a lot more confident driving her now.

There was also a leak coming from the rear of the gearbox so a new rear seal was put in there. Tough job to get the flange nut and flange off the main shaft but many hands mke light work and all that....

Aside from that she got a good service with all new fluids and filters, spark plugs and fan belt.

All in all it was a long enough days work and the lads played a stormer, fair play to them :D

Running great now so I'm well happy. Gonna try and work out what mpg I'm getting at the moment over the next while. Fingers crossed it's not too low!?!

If anyone is looking for a mechanic in Dublin give Domonic a shout at 087 2656434.

Great 02 video.

Spotted over at http://mybmw2002.blogspot.com

God bless Jaymic

Last Thursday I ordered a few parts for the 02 from Jaymic in the UK. Unfortunately this lined up nicely with a volcano in Iceland deciding to blow it's load. I wasn't expecting the parts to arrive any time soon due to the European airspace being closed but to my surprise they were delivered on Monday morning. Even without the restrictions that's nice and quick but with the restrictions it's nothing short of amazing.

Big well done to the Jaymic team, royal mail and an post (for once).

Stu

02 with alpina wheels

Photoshop render again, this time alpina style wheels. I originally prefered these to the optional alloys and I think I'm trending towards them again.

Seroiusly lowered here, don't think it would be attainable in reality.

02 to the future

A very quick render of what my final idea for the 02 is.

A lovely set of optional period alloys and lowered and stiffened suspension.


The 02 now (well I've sorted out the misaligned door but you get the idea)


The 02 in the future.

Flickery Fuel Gauge

I'm currently waiting on parts to arrive from Jaymic in the UK to replace the coupling between the propshaft and the gearbox. It's a rubber part that has perished over time and pieces of it are starting to flail off it now. I can't really drive the car until I have this fixed as it could cause damage to the flange on the gearbox.

Until then I'm occupying myself with other minor jobs on the car.

The other day I noticed that my fuel gauge was jumping up and down slightly (just a few mm) when the indicators were operated. A bit of reading of the Mike McCartney resto book and the haynes manual points to a bad earth in the boot.

Under the panel that covers the fuel tank there is a earth to the left side. I removed the earth strap and gave the body and the strap a good going over wtith a wire brush, applied some vaseline to the points and reconnected. Now the fuel gauge is behaving as expected.

An easy fix to a minor annoyance.

more to come...

Stu's '02 Blog

I'm going to use this space to present photographs and info on my newly acquired 1972 BMW 2002.

Stuart