1971 BMW 1600 Project

[ak-]

Definitely an excellent day and everything he said happened.
Ryan's car was a trooper and is surprisingly comfortable for how planted it is. He's definitely taking it towards the right direction.

Here are a few more pictures of our exploration of Malibu. It'll happen again in time.




My view of Ryan



Ryan's view of me.

[freeride53]

Lol. I saw Abby's snapchat. Looks like gutefun.

[Blackout]

[phreshkid]

Hung out with my good friend Abdu yesterday. We did a nice little cruise up to Malibu. We explored a few different beaches and checked out a worthy canyon run. We jumped into the ocean together, climbed rocks together, ate together, took photos together, and saw what Malibu is really about, together.

We came across more than one strange thing as well, but I won't get into that here.

The car did well. It didn't blow up or stop on us, which was nice. Abdu managed to take a nice photo of the car during the canyon run, and I snapped another with my iphone. I had to climb a large rock to get the shot, but it was worth it.











There are very few limits I won't cross to get a good instagram photo.




It was a great day.

[phreshkid]

This car is undergoing some fine tuning. I've decided that I don't think the carb/ignition system are working at optimum levels. I'm going through baseline tests now and will change/fix things accordingly.

Photos and details to come later in the week.

[blue plates]

Wow. That's next level dirty. Night and day. Black and white.

Racist :D

[ST1G]

Wow. That's next level dirty. Night and day. Black and white.

I also changed the cabin filter on the m3 today. My AC wasn't very powerful and I knew it had something to do with the filter. I was right. Took about 20 minutes to replace and the difference in airflow is black and white. AC on full blast is like an arctic hurricane.

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[Luke Girard]

That thing looks beat

Ya same color though and it had similar wheels! I though it was yours until I got close to it. I really want a 2002. Some day

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[2mAn]

Why do I get hungry everytime I visit this thread?...

[phreshkid]

Saw your twin at Mt. Sac today! Much worse condition though =(

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That thing looks beat

[Luke Girard]

Saw your twin at Mt. Sac today! Much worse condition though =(



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[ForcedFirebird]

Burrito Friday sounds more appetizing than Taco Tuesday

[phreshkid]

I haven't driven the car in about a week so I wanted to clean it up and replace a few things.


First was this rear window latch. It looks like it's from a later 2002, but I'm not sure. I haven't checked any other cars to compare. Either way, the 1600 has chrome pieces that are original and I happened to have an extra, so I swapped it out.


Old latch:




New (patina'd) latch:



I've been meaning to change this for months, and finally got around to it.






And then here is a shot of the interior. Still cleaning things. 40 years of dirt and grime in all the nooks and crannies. Getting there.













I also changed the cabin filter on the m3 today. My AC wasn't very powerful and I knew it had something to do with the filter. I was right. Took about 20 minutes to replace and the difference in airflow is black and white. AC on full blast is like an arctic hurricane.








Time for a burrito.

[E30_Pare]

Much better than reapplying carnuba every few weeks. If your removing color also there might not be any paint left after a year. Carnuba under a synthetic though will give you the same shine then you could just layer more carnuba and sealer and build it up depending how deep you want the paint to look. When you wash use some car soap with carnuba, dish soap actually strips wax off.

[phreshkid]

That isn't a bad suggestion. After you mentioned nufinish, I started doing a bit more research on other comparable synthetic sealants. I like where this is going.

When i saw scotch brite and comet all i could think was



Until i saw the close ups.. Ive had my fair share of shitty paint cars. Imo just give her one night of hardcore carnuba wax then seal it with a synthetic like nufinish.


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