And that last little bit of repair before we head up to the PVGP has also been completed. The driver side shock tower has been welded up and we’re ready to roll. Not much to say here so I’ll just let the pictures do the talking.

The pursuit of the dreaded fuel smell in an old BMW 2002 has been the bane of many an enthusiast and owner. For the past year I have been chasing down the vaporous demons. One drive would be a sweet smelling back road carving session, the next a brain cell obliterating fuel huffing romp. From [...]

My DIY clutch pedal linkage worked well enough to get us down to V@V and back, but the bolt and nut kept loosening up while clutching our way through the back roads. An upgrade was in order. As mentioned before, I had been searching McMaster-Carr.com for a suitable heim-jointed replacement. And I found one.

A little rust has been poking through the driver side shock tower for a couple years now. Nothing major as 2002 shock tower rot goes, at least it wasn’t around the crown where the shock mounts to the tower. So as I had the gas tank out of the car to hunt down the source [...]