1971 BMW 1600 Project

[kronus]

oh hi guys

[phreshkid]

Dude, any time after 1/5! Tacos Adobe in Orange, perhaps?

Tacos Adobe sounds like the perfect place to kick off the new year. I'll have my people call your people.

Too good. I'm stealing this.

Sick work as always, keep it up!

Thanks man! What's your name anyways? I feel like we should be on a first name basis by now.

Yep I get it, that's why on manufacturing it's best to do estimates, not promises.

I can help on the linkage though. It's hard to tell in the photo, does it have the u-shaped bracket off of the meshed gears?

Totally understand. No harm no foul.
As for the question you asked regarding the carb's setup, here is a better photo I took just for you. It does have the U-shaped bracket. I don't have anything between here and the long metal linkage piece that connects from the pedal box. I basically needs whatever goes in between the carb to that long metal rod.

Photo for reference:




Oh yeah, I did some cleaning of the carb and manifold today as well. It's all pretty for now. I try to keep things clean for the most part.

if you two work out a deal, Im driving up to NorCal tomorrow and will have an empty E30 trunk that I can deliver parts in. I need to take a part to Mr Kronus anyways, but he said he might not be around... He has a lot of cool M10 turbo stuff Ive been trying to get my hands on, but life is in the way

get to work!

I'm hesitant to pull the trigger with Mr. Kronus because I'm not sure of the turbo direction I want to go. My heart is telling me yes, but my body is telling me no.

But I really do need to pick up a transmission from him. We should sext each other and figure this out.

[2mAn]

hey so i have almost everything you need to turbo your shiz

Hay, we should talk.

if you two work out a deal, Im driving up to NorCal tomorrow and will have an empty E30 trunk that I can deliver parts in. I need to take a part to Mr Kronus anyways, but he said he might not be around... He has a lot of cool M10 turbo stuff Ive been trying to get my hands on, but life is in the way

get to work!

[SkiFree]

Yep I get it, that's why on manufacturing it's best to do estimates, not promises.

I can help on the linkage though. It's hard to tell in the photo, does it have the u-shaped bracket off of the meshed gears?

[CorvallisBMW]

Buy now, ask questions and reflect on poor life decisions later. Seems to work for me.

Too good. I'm stealing this.

Sick work as always, keep it up!

[markseven]

Dude, any time after 1/5! Tacos Adobe in Orange, perhaps?

[phreshkid]

That sounds awesome!!!

And, the time to do stuff like this is when you have:

- No girlfriend
- No wife or kids
- Lots of resources
- Lots of time

;)

I promised Shant I'd have a beer with you two some time soon. Let's make this happen.

[RCM3]

- No girlfriend
- No wife or kids
- Lots of resources
- Lots of time

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Buy now, ask questions and reflect on poor life decisions later.

I respect and admire this philosophy. In addition to our mutual admiration of vintage BMWs, we also share this view on life in common currently.

[markseven]

I don't even go out looking for deals anymore. Friends/Family will call/text me and say "hey, I saw a cool car like your old one! It's at 123 Gospendyourmoney Street. You should check it out!" Or "Look at this craigslist ad! Looks like something you'd drive lol". Or my personal favorite, "My dad's old neighbor has a few old cars in his garage that you might get a kick out of checking out! He's old and blind but I told him about you and said you'd be stopping by sometime this week". This is how my newest project came along.

That sounds awesome!!!

And, the time to do stuff like this is when you have:

- No girlfriend
- No wife or kids
- Lots of resources
- Lots of time

;)

[phreshkid]

Congrats on the degree.

And I don't know how you are juggling so many things... nice work though :)

Thanks Mark!



I'll tell you how:

- No girlfriend
- No wife or kids
- Lots of resources
- Lots of time


I don't even go out looking for deals anymore. Friends/Family will call/text me and say "hey, I saw a cool car like your old one! It's at 123 Gospendyourmoney Street. You should check it out!" Or "Look at this craigslist ad! Looks like something you'd drive lol". Or my personal favorite, "My dad's old neighbor has a few old cars in his garage that you might get a kick out of checking out! He's old and blind but I told him about you and said you'd be stopping by sometime this week". This is how my newest project came along. I can't officially talk about that project though.

Like a stray dog, I bring these cars/parts home.

Buy now, ask questions and reflect on poor life decisions later. Seems to work for me.

[markseven]

Congrats on the degree.

And I don't know how you are juggling so many things... nice work though :)

[phreshkid]

Jeremy's been out, but I got word on Friday that the sample is ready for pickup.


and you better not be doing a Colorado too..... dang it.

Soooo are you going to send this to me? I guess I can just pick it up sometime next week or the week after Christmas dies down.

Thanks for checking in and giving me an update by the way. I know it's hard estimating a time frame on project completion regarding these headers that your fabricator controls. It makes IE look bad because they can't keep their promises on time, it makes me look bad because I can't put my car back together in time for a drive or some important event that I was counting on attending, etc. But I'm not mad.

I do need some stuff to make the 38/38 work, though. Most notably, the throttle linkage system. The carb/mani I posted up above didn't come with the linkage, so I will have to source that new. Can you help with this?

[SkiFree]

Jeremy's been out, but I got word on Friday that the sample is ready for pickup.


and you better not be doing a Colorado too..... dang it.

[SoundByte]

Man, that Lynx setup is the shit. Let one of those kits slip through my fingers a few years ago before I realized what I was looking at. If I don't go FI with my 2002, it's destined to get one of those Lynx kits.

Rad thread is rad.

[phreshkid]

Congrats on the degree. Now it's time to get serious about life. By that I mean do more than just think about that turbo set up. I vote you start with that pan and build up from there :D

It's scary how well you know me.

But as an aside, I actually just accepted a job offer today. A large company I previously worked for approached me and offered me the reins to their Sales Division of all of the Southwestern US for the container and intermodal industry. Kind of crazy how it happened, but I am allowed to keep my current company as it is profitable and will continue to be so. The only caveat is that I cannot bring in new customers under my personal company.

So I start that position in about a month, and let an employee or two run my personal company and manage them from a distance. It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but I think I can swing it.

So this basically means more cars. Many more cars.