Amateur Hour: '75 2002 Build

[white out]

Looks amazing!

[Fons]

This car is great, those fenders Are awesome on the '02.

[Z33_Taxi]

hnnnnnnnnnnng

[BozoBubble]

OK, Turkis Blau is now officially added to my list of colors I need to paint a car someday.

The way you guys just dived in on this with no experience and are actually getting results is really inspiring. Keep on doin' how you do!

[mpower5266]

I love the color, you need to update more often. Go Tigers!

[190Evan]

Wow that color is gorgeous

[Earl]

Super nice! Great color choice

[FilthyLittle02]

Resurrecting this thread for a long lost update. Its been a long time, and over the last two years we have been making moves, just in a slow fashion as I have been off at college and the older bro has been busy with his new house. The '02 was off in paint for about a year. (Long story but the guy kept putting it off). We finally got it back, and we have been slowly putting it back together. We have the engine in, most of the wiring, and a lot of small pieces here and there. Ill be back for a week this summer, so in that week we are hoping to get the exhaust in, driveshaft in, and possibly get it running. Its getting close and it looks absolutely amazing. Here are some pictures for you guys to drool over. Went with Turkis Blau for the paint and it looks unreal in person, pictures don't do it justice. Anyways, enough talking i'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

[99sil-teg]

Nice progress, coming along very nicely.

[FilthyLittle02]

Got bored of the 02 so made a video..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUv8PbUaFG4

Basically waiting on rear wheel bearings to come in and then it goes to get some bondo work done/ paint.

The good 02 is only featured once in the video... see if you can tell when.

[FilthyLittle02]

Looks great so far, those flares are super slick looking. How'd you go about stripping the sound deadening tar off the floor pans? I'm thinking of dry icing them, but it looks like you used a heat gun..?

Just used a head gun and scraped it off with a putty knife which worked pretty well. Took a few hours at the most. Apparently the dry ice method causes it all to crack apart and separate which would be a lot easier than a heat gun if you have that available and want to save some time.

[readfrost]

Looks great so far, those flares are super slick looking. How'd you go about stripping the sound deadening tar off the floor pans? I'm thinking of dry icing them, but it looks like you used a heat gun..?

[Z33_Taxi]

Haven't decided for sure but there is a newer (and a bit flashier) BMW paint code that is really tempting me...

No keep the BRG

[Keith602]

Looking good!

I thought there was like a smeagol/gollum thing happening on this thread because I joined it on the second page, missed the whole brother part until I went back hahah

[anti.engineered]

great work on the butt welding there dude! fender was done really nicely.