What did you do to your E9 today?

HB Chris said:
Drove the hell out of my coupe for the last two days on the Targa California over 700 miles of two lane blacktop. Downshift, who needs to downshift? Torque beyond my wildest imagination, why did I wait ten years?
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My Dad retired, and I'm going to see if he wants to do this with me next year. Sounds like an amazing father son trip.
 
a little of this, a little of that

just HAD to make sure I had all the parts. (Well, most of them...!)
 

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Washed and waxed. First waxing since new paint. Used wheel wax on the Alpinas. Found 2 spades on the coil that needed replacing so did that too. Then went for a ride
 
Drove it to The Quail Lodge yesterday for a Motorcycle show, and I took it to brunch this morning. Nice to spend two days back to back with her.
 
did more work on the interior, moving toward the color change.
- installed tweeters in my ash-trays - replaced the tan cards with perforated metal and routed the wires out of the housing.

- uncovered a blue fabric rear seat

- uncovered some black armrests to repair the wood, so they can be recovered

- cut the holes in my new carpets for the seat belt installation

- repainted some of the interior panels with black SEM color coat.
 
Nearly kicked hell out of it!! As I was trying to get into the car with the window down in a tight space, I nearly blinded myself on the opening quarter light frame!! God that frame is soo dangerous! :-(
Any other car I would had realy took it out on it!. :'( :'(
 
Ive spent all weekend fabricating a rear section of exhaust as the original one will be a washing machine very soon.
purists look away now.


I used a centre section that looked very similer and was the correct size off a peugeot 106, chopped it, shaped it, welded it and then fitted it and I must say its improved the flow and exhaust note tremendously!
I then fixed a slight petrol tank leak, now I can enjoy my pipe when driving.
then made a slight ajustment on the dogleg gearbox and took it on a long run.

and I can now say im back in love with "kieser"again.
 
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installed and adjusted rear side glass

installed radiator

connected mallory dizzy

installed engine compartment light

installed VDO gauges

installed becker stereo w/bluetooth

installed fuel pump

bought 5 gallons of gas, filled her up and took for a spin around the neighbrhood. - First one in 4 years...

and found an oil leak at one of the rear seals...
 
bimmerboy73 said:
where to begin...

installed and adjusted rear side glass

installed radiator

connected mallory dizzy

installed engine compartment light

installed VDO gauges

installed becker stereo w/bluetooth

installed fuel pump

bought 5 gallons of gas, filled her up and took for a spin around the neighbrhood. - First one in 4 years...

and found an oil leak at one of the rear seals...
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Congrats on the first spin! Not that it's high on my priority list, but I'd love to see the link to your becker stereo.
 
Putting a nice Becker in is sadly at the end of my list. Still have other things to tackle first. Can't wait though. The Alpine head unit in my Coupe is super out of place.
 
Beckers are real beauties but almost all have a DIN faceplate, the universal with shafts are almost impossible to find nowadays.
 
Today

Guibo (1990 and shot), tranny mount (1986 and saggy), and center drive shaft bearing (1990, totally shot, and the source of that rapping sound I've been hearing).

I should add a picture of my smiling face from the test drive!
 
License plate bracket from Coupeking installed. My car had some heinous tap plastic backing plate the PO had fabbed up. Been waiting to order other things from Coupeking at the same time to save on shipping. It's finally done.



 
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