1973 BMW 2002 tii - Judge Judy

[phreshkid]

Yaaaas, wonder how these will look

Probably awesome. Once I get into a car, it instantly becomes awesome. Trust me.

[phreshkid]

Are you located near long beach, CA? I'd love to come see your car in person and maybe grab a brew if you're around me and in for that kind of stuff. Love the progress of your build its fun to read about.


-E

Are you asking me out on a date?

[kevmac858]

LOL no more scary moments in the mountains. I'm a fan of these.

Yaaaas, wonder how these will look

[alas]

Are you located near long beach, CA? I'd love to come see your car in person and maybe grab a brew if you're around me and in for that kind of stuff. Love the progress of your build its fun to read about.


-E

[ak-]

I'm a little worried that these tires may be too wide for the fenders. I will be running coilovers with camber adjustability, but still, these tires are MEATY. Falken Azenis RT-615K. Looks like I won't be sliding around anywhere with these.

LOL no more scary moments in the mountains. I'm a fan of these.

[SkiFree]

Genuinely jealous of your rate of speed Ryan.

Be interested in seeing how you tackle those rear window latches. Mine need to be pretty'd up quite a bit.

[phreshkid]

Everything is looking great, the fresh painted steelies will look amazing with that rubber.

I think I can make the deadline. I just picked up all these various hoses and gaskets and stuff. I want this car in tip-top shape.

I hate how this photo represents $360 worth of parts.

[Big Willy]

I'm wondering if I can bring this car, and the 1600 to Pebble Beach weekend in August. I'm betting I can.

Everything is looking great, the fresh painted steelies will look amazing with that rubber.

[phreshkid]

Excellent work on those door cards

Thanks! I really want this car to be nice, and am very impatient, so I've been chipping away at the car lately. So much to do, so little time. Actually I have a lot of time, but I'm wondering if I can bring this car, and the 1600 to Pebble Beach weekend in August. I'm betting I can.

The door panels turned out great.

Thanks man! I hate working on people's cars, but will put in hours and hours into my own stuff. I actually low-key hate cars because they need so much work, but can't bring myself to buy new cars because of how quickly they depreciate and deteriorate.

Damn dude, you work fast! looking good.

Yew! I'm still plugging away at it.


For example, I was able to strip the rest of the wheels, buy the fancy primer, Wurth Silver paint, and 2K Clear Coat. I figure if I stripped the wheels, I might as well paint them too. I probably spent $100 just in primer/color/clear coat today. I shot two coats of primer today. Tomorrow will be color and maybe, just maybe, clear coat on friday. Then mount tires that also showed up today.

But the product is turning out great. I went ahead and stripped two other valve covers today as well. One is a tii VC, and the other is standard.





I'm a little worried that these tires may be too wide for the fenders. I will be running coilovers with camber adjustability, but still, these tires are MEATY. Falken Azenis RT-615K. Looks like I won't be sliding around anywhere with these.


And here is the small collection of valve covers I have at the house. I probably have another 5 at the warehouse.





I hope to get the wheels mounted this weekend and see what needs to be adjusted.

[CorvallisBMW]

Damn dude, you work fast! looking good.

[rzerob]

The door panels turned out great.

[jhaurimn]

Excellent work on those door cards

[phreshkid]

I spent the last few hours rebuilding the door cards. My brain actually hurts now, but I think the end product is quite exceptional given what I had to work with.

The vinyl has holes on each side - one hole from a screw, and another hole from what looks like a cigarette, but neither bother me terrible. It adds character to the rest of the car.



The first thing I did, was rip off the old, water-logged cardboard backing.


Then I removed as much paper remnants as I could, to insure better adhesion to the new backing plates from Aardvark.



Next up, I bent all the metal tabs on the back of the metal frame so that they would accept the new wood backing. I then bent them back to secure the wood, then got to gluing down the vinyl to the new wood.



Now it was time to get painter's tape along the edges of the plastic, to protect the vinyl from the new aluminum tape (you'll understand why) and the mother's mag polish.



Instead of going after the traditional mylar (all I've ever used in the past, when rebuilding 2002 door cards), I opted to use aluminum tape, then polish it out for that mirror shine that Mylar is known for. I stole the idea from Brian Dooley (thanks again!) and it worked so well, I'll never used Mylar film again. This is my preferred method of choice.



Now you apply the aluminum tape. It's pretty easy to work with. I used an exacto knife to make the fine cuts, and a credit card edge to seat the aluminum edges to the plastic trim pieces. You can see both completed door cards here.




Now for polishing. About 2 minutes per strip, and you can see the difference is huge.






Muuuch nicer now:




And for the final product.




I'll get the rear cards done, tinker with the door innards (new grommets, cleaning and lithium grease all window tracks, clean and graphite oil all locks, add new vapor barrier,etc), then finally put everything back together.

I have a new carpet kit on the way, so that will be going in soon as well. I'll likely do up another center console and add oil temperature to the current two gauges. I'll also add an afr gauge, but that will go into the glove box - I don't want to see flashing numbers every time I drive.





I also began stripping these:


I'll have them repainted and clear coated in that nice, stock silver/gray color.

[stonea]

I try to save those for my girl. She gets all the nudes she wants. I've gotten really creative in how I take my nudie photos now. I have costumes and everything.

Latex or Furry costumes?.... Just curious.

[phreshkid]

post some nudes already

I try to save those for my girl. She gets all the nudes she wants. I've gotten really creative in how I take my nudie photos now. I have costumes and everything.