My Hoopte30 Project Attempt #6 - the painless way to earn cash back every day

[2mAn]

Sounds like a contender for COTM, if & when he gets it done, purely for his sheer perseverance if nothing else! I’m willing this one over the line, after the last 3 haven’t work out.

Come on BOB, keep it going! 😝

I've tried to get Bob to give me a COTM for years now...

[Matt@EDC]

I love it when the car comes together so nicely when none of the changes were really planned to be that way and it all just works.

Sounds like a contender for COTM, if & when he gets it done, purely for his sheer perseverance if nothing else! I’m willing this one over the line, after the last 3 haven’t work out.

Come on BOB, keep it going! 😝

[2mAn]

I love it when the car comes together so nicely when none of the changes were really planned to be that way and it all just works.

[moatilliatta]

I agree with the D-force D-Schwartz Combo.

Slate it!

[mjweimer]

I know all the wiring is really tedious but you are really making some serious progress. I like how those wheels look in combination with the DS paint and agree with Matt@EDC this will look great all polished up.

[Matt@EDC]

This thing is gonna look awesome! Loving the wheels and the red tails 😍 Will look great once the diamondschwarz is all polished out 😎

[AWDBOB]

What shock mount? :P

Good to see shop space coming along, I may try to make a weekend trip up and check it out. Find something I need to buy.

Bahaha good eye- the springs that came on the car are made by Vogtland and are soooo low, I can only assume these shocks are bottoming out constantly. JakeB gifted me some new KYBs he wasn't using, so I am trying to find the right spring to use with them for budget sake until I inevitably do GCs later on.

And yeah man, once I get things organized/inventoried better (and maybe a car running, perhaps) you should!

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I set a goal to get an "area" of the car finished up tonight after work, so I picked the passenger front corner. I had to splice turn signal, side marker, A/C, ABS, horn, fog light and washer fluid pump pigtails because they were gone on the harness I pulled out of the Atlantic Ocean.

This is what I'm dealing with:

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Untitled by Bobbie Morrone, on Flickr
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It's not routed properly, but I don't care all too much, because it's functional. Also, note, since the car is '91 it came with the r134 pressure switch setup, which is nice.

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Pulled out my headlight parts and got the adjusters freed up, replaced a few misc springs/etc and threw the headlight in with a euro grill, as well as a decent used ZKW fog, courtesy of mjweimer.

These are terrible yellow ebay fogs:

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Much better:

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Also, got rear side markers installed, as well as some red tails that I took from Linda (Linda went back to clean stock tails). Really cleaned up the rear end. I have a good spare bumper trim that I'll throw on someday, also courtesy of mjweimer.

I got these wheels from Dwight through helping him with some work, and normally don't care for them, but I think they look really neat on this car, so here they will stay.

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Untitled by Bobbie Morrone, on Flickr

[moatilliatta]

What shock mount? :P

Good to see shop space coming along, I may try to make a weekend trip up and check it out. Find something I need to buy.

[AWDBOB]

Aladdins cave right there! Fun times seeing the transformation. And can’t wait to see the cars out and about. Good work crafting, Mr BOB

Yes indeed- thanks again for your help!

You selling any of the z3 racks?

Whenever I get around to it, yes.

[firstE30]

You selling any of the z3 racks?

[Matt@EDC]

Aladdins cave right there! Fun times seeing the transformation. And can’t wait to see the cars out and about. Good work grafting, Mr BOB

[AWDBOB]

I got the rear side marker pigtails cut in from a good car, and installed a new battery cable to replaced the one that was in the car, that had three splices in it on the ECU power wire.

I have some splicing to do on the front of the car and will finally be ready to hook a battery up and start to do some testing.

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The reason for the slow progress. Matt@EDC and I have been turning this:

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Into this:

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[AWDBOB]

People. I thought it was pretty clear from the ad the car wasn't in a drivable state.

Good luck with the garage rehab. Getting mine neat and organized usually provides me a fair amount of motivation. Hope it does the same for you!

Agreed- mine has been in such a bad state of disarray for so long with the warehouse, Linda’s parts, so many “in progress” engines and side projects, etc it’s hard to even walk in there. It’s not productive, at all. I’m hoping a few days of hard work will at least get me to a workable state.

And yeah, I can’t blame them for being optimistic, but I’m glad they pissed me off so I pulled the ad

My xterra, despite being nice and manual trans, is only getting 13-14mpg city/highway, which has given me some extra incentive to get the 318 on the road for the mileage.

I spread myself so thin and barely maintain a delicate balance of sanity (my own fault), so when something tips the scale the wrong way things hit the fan quick. It’s what always causes me to sell stuff/abandon projects once they get out of hand. I really hope things simmer down soon so I get to enjoy some of the work I’ve put into the cars!

[mike.bmw]

You did- I got so frustrated with how much time the car was taking and tried to dump it, only to get 100 messages with folks asking if they can drive the car home. I took the ad down shortly after.

Trying to stick it out. Doing a bit of a garage rehab tomorrow with Matt@edc to get the workspace a bit more efficient to hopefully turn things over more efficiently.

People. I thought it was pretty clear from the ad the car wasn't in a drivable state.

Good luck with the garage rehab. Getting mine neat and organized usually provides me a fair amount of motivation. Hope it does the same for you!

[AWDBOB]

Love seeing a diamondschwarz car resurrected! Sina's project thread immediately comes to mind.

The wiring looks like a nightmare but hopefully its all downhill after that.

Me too- I have always had a silent love for DS!

The wiring really is beating me up. So many small thing to go through, and the mound doesn’t really get any smaller until the project is completed, sadly. Oh well, comes with the territory!

I thought I saw this for sale on
FB. Glad you are continuing onward! Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

You did- I got so frustrated with how much time the car was taking and tried to dump it, only to get 100 messages with folks asking if they can drive the car home. I took the ad down shortly after.

Trying to stick it out. Doing a bit of a garage rehab tomorrow with Matt@edc to get the workspace a bit more efficient to hopefully turn things over more efficiently.