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    #16
    TJ-
    The truck bed liner was a helpful-hint from a friend of mine that restores cars for a living ($200k+ value cars). What he told me was that the 3M undercoating is pretty fragile stuff when under an engine bay. Its not very heat resistant and when you spill fuel on it, it gets soggy and starts peeling. That would be enough for the car to start rusting again.
    I can paint over the bed-liner with my spray gun when I paint the top of the engine bay, but I am not sure that I will. I plan to coat the whole trans-tunnel in the bed liner stuff and then use some dynamat-extreme or the like inside there, or under the carpet because this car is LOUD. There is no insulation, so I figure 10lbs of dynamat placed correctly through the car should make a much more comfortable car. I have already removed over 80lbs of shit that will NOT make its way back onto the car when I am done with the resto, so its all good on the weight factor. I should still be under 2200lbs in street trim 8)
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      #17
      Car looks like its coming along quite well. Why are you ditching the tii injection? Having owned a 72tii and currently a 76 02 as my current daily driver I am sure you will be happy with this car as a daily driver once your done. Are you going to put a 5 speed in it, this is always a good idea if you do lots of freeway cruising. By the way dont you think it will be touhg to smog the car with a stahl header, 32/36, or 38/38 and no air pump etc? Good luck with the engine work ahead im sure it will turn out awesome.
      Sean

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        #18
        Assuming all of that rust IS surface rust, you might want to check out the actual integrity of the lower radiator support, rockers, and rear shock towers. It also looks like that car had a leaky windshield gasket (or two) in its life.

        Looks like a good project, though. I spent the day working on my 02 as well. As much as I love these cars, I am so damn sick of doing body work.

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          #19
          I have checked the car over throughly, and it is solid. the rear shock towers look brand new, not a spec of rust.
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            #20
            Originally posted by B6guy
            Car looks like its coming along quite well. Why are you ditching the tii injection? Having owned a 72tii and currently a 76 02 as my current daily driver I am sure you will be happy with this car as a daily driver once your done. Are you going to put a 5 speed in it, this is always a good idea if you do lots of freeway cruising. By the way dont you think it will be touhg to smog the car with a stahl header, 32/36, or 38/38 and no air pump etc? Good luck with the engine work ahead im sure it will turn out awesome.
            Sean
            I have thought about the 5spd, but I am not going to do it now. I think I will try and find a 3.64:1LSD because I have a 3.91:1 open diff in there now. I like cruzing at higer speeds on the freeway and the 3.91 is just too much.
            I am removing the Tii parts because of their value. I got the car relitively cheap and I am putting a ton of work/money into it so I want to cut down on the costs. I got a full 318i injection setup from a fellow board member and now I am selling the tii parts on e-bay to make some cash back for other parts/mods. I am excited to get this car done as its always been a dream of mine to have a nice 2002. I hope to drop an S14 in there one day and have an M2 to accompany my M3.
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            '07 335i Alpine/Black Sedan
            '12 X5 3.5i Alpine/Black
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