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

[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.

Untitled by Bobbie Morrone, on Flickr
Untitled by Bobbie Morrone, on Flickr



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

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Into this:

Untitled by Bobbie Morrone, on Flickr

[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.

[mike.bmw]

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