Watch as i try to completely rebuild a 1973 BMW 2002 without my neighbors finding out.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Roll center

In an attempt to regain proper control arm travel and angle, Ive installed Massive Lee's 32mm roll center spacers. If you ever have the chance to order something from Massive I guarantee you wont be disappointed. Everything Ive gotten from him has been a perfect fit and finish.


Its pretty pathetic when you look at a picture of your suspension and think, "I need to dust that, wait, is that a fingerprint?".


Redneck engineering.

As of now, the plan is to make my own turbo manifold flange. Im using 3/8" steel.

Normally you would use the exhaust manifold gasket as a template for the flange. Since the gaskets for this head are not one piece, I had to come up with something else.

After a lot of daydreaming about other stuff, I figured out a solution. Take some painters tape, apply to ports, rub tape with greasy gloves. This left a perfect stamp of the ports on the tape. Then remove the tape and apply to steel. Cut away.


Picked up a 1" hole saw to start the ports.
Its times like this I wish I had a bandsaw.

I got head

Picked up an E21 head. Just got it disassembled for now. Will be sending it to the machine shop to have the surface checked.

This car might have had some intake restrictions: