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

[mjweimer]

Best hooptie is running hooptie.

[Matt@EDC]

Which hoopty will be best hoopty?

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Which is the hooptyist HooptE of them all?

[AWDBOB]

Which hoopty will be best hoopty?

The 325iS is what I hoped for the hoopty to be. Ratty, but solid, not digging to deep, and only doing what’s necessary. The 318 turned into a full on build with the motor and chassis harness, and is thus dead to me. I don’t want multiple giant projects, just something that’s solid that I can hop in whenever and not care at all, not something I’ve touched every bolt on.

318 will get sold once I do the motor swap and finish buttoning up odds and ends. I should be able to start daily-ing the iS as soon as my control arms get here.

[moatilliatta]

Which hoopty will be best hoopty?

[AWDBOB]

I am going to have a running m42 in about a month or two but all the way in California though

I ended up finding a 40k mile m42 dropout that I'm snagging in a few weeks!

Hoopte #5 is fun - the rear brake hoses/calipers were filled with rust and/or collapsed and/or bad, so I stopped by the warehouse and poked around and found an unused set of braided rear brake lines, new rotors, rebuilt ATE rear calipers, and tossed all of that stuff on with KYBs and H&R OE Sports, with some shock mount brackets I had lying around.

The front control arms are so roasted that they are unsafe, so I ordered some control arms and E36 solid rubber centered bushings, along with f/r endlinks. Once those show up I'll probably toss on the wheels from hoopte #4 since they have good tires and start dailying it.

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