Mini-Me - Quad bike carb'd BMW

[ephect]

holy shit, i go away for a weekend and u've stripped her already! shes looking good, and a much better canvas to work from, that red one was too far gone.

u'll have this on the road in no time, which means the P will be on the road sooner

good work son!

[Jamie_87]

Its an Italian car, a spaghetti strainer

uhh actually its a german car...

[Morton]

*sigh* ... >_>

[Emackulation]

Another beemer hakchalk, hopefully this one hits the road under withing a few months.

[dufus]

uhh actually its a german car...

Wow you dont say, someone no understand jokes

[Jesterarts]

^^^ Can't say I understand how calling a german car italian is funny...

And if i really an that behind the times with what a joke is... I've got one!!

Yeh, hakhawk... your car is a bike!! hahaha

[dufus]

^^^ Can't say I understand how calling a german car italian is funny...

And if i really an that behind the times with what a joke is... I've got one!!

Yeh, hakhawk... your car is a bike!! hahaha

All the rust holes make it a spaghetti strainer

[Jesterarts]

Ahh.... so nothing to do with being italian...

Now it makes sense...

[Dirbatua]

ah i though you were making a nazi reference dufus

[Jo3_Blo]

Oh dear........I think that was a bad joke.


Very bad indeed. Lol.

[hakhawk]

well, even on a stinker of a day(not as bad as last few though) i managed to do some work to the bmw.

we threw in some new plugs, coil, points and leads. will do oil and other stuff another day.

and i cleaned up the RHS rear window after the rust kill last week, primed it and slapped on some paint, just pressure packed it, as i will do with the rest of the bits we have to clean up for now. i'll do it all properly later on down the track when its on the road and i get bored.

its not perfect, didnt bother smoothing it, it just has to look one colour for now.

the new paints noticeably bluer, and more metallic. either the respray someone else did was with a different colour, or it was a while ago and its faded a bit. either way, its a close enough match for now.

[Jo3_Blo]

Good stuff HAKhawk!

What do you reckon, rego in under a month perhaps?

[hakhawk]

Good stuff HAKhawk!

What do you reckon, rego in under a month perhaps?

plan is end of feb, way its going, it should be done by then.

scored some mx5 seats for it tonight, quick spin to melb and back and here they are:



one rip on either side of the drivers seat, but other than that and being a bit dusty, theyre pretty good. feel alright to sit in, just gotta work out how to bolt them in.

[hakhawk]

and theyre in.

still need to paint the brackets and bolts, put some nylocks on the seat bolts and change the shitty 6mm bolts on the chassis to 10mm, and itll be all good. oh and a quick clean of the seats

feel brilliant to sit in, cant wait to drive it



our elaborate # pattern bracket, works good. might go to a 6mm thick bar later, see if it passes roady first and see how it fares after a bit of driving.



later on i want to drop the back a bit more, so you're sitting IN the seat as opposed to sort of ON it.

[hakhawk]

thoughts? im kinda digging it (damn you dirbatua!!)

[Dirbatua]

i cant put my finger on why that looks familar

DO IT!

[dufus]

oh noes, one baby blue and silver car is enough












































nah it looks good

[ephect]

Crackers, i actually like the 2 tone, didnt even notice it. nice and classy.

ur taking wayyyyy to long, reg it mofo

[Jo3_Blo]

Hey the seats fit in pretty well with the BMW interior. (looks wise) Good work.

And as for that photochop; I LIKE IT!!! Pretty cute......little mini-me of dirbatuas calais lol.

But really, it does look good I reckon. Breaks up the blue a bit, makes it look a little tougher.

[hakhawk]

did some welding tonight, lhs window is ready to clean up and give a quick spray, holes are all welded up.

filled the holes in the rear garnish where rivets went for the plastic panel as im leaving it off.

filled one hole in the top corner above the left tail light, and found some more light rust under the boot seal, which i need a new one of, coz i broke it taking it off so i didnt melt it while welding.

also solved my broken lhs mirror problem, unsure if ill keep them, but theyre not bad, just gotta reposition for better view angles.

[ephect]

i still cant believe u picked this thing up cheap and its in the almost top condition compared to the last 2 u've had.

mirrors look good, u gonna color code em or leave em black?

[hakhawk]

i still cant believe u picked this thing up cheap and its in the almost top condition compared to the last 2 u've had.

mirrors look good, u gonna color code em or leave em black?

still unsure, might sport the black for a while.

[Dirbatua]

blue and grey two tone NOW BITCH!

[Jo3_Blo]

Mirrors look alright. Sorta like GTS mirrors.


Oh.........and what he said!

[hakhawk]

swapping brake systems over today to the aus remote system from the early lhs double booster system(theyre stuffed and im not spending money on them when boosterless system will go in soon after rego)

so i took this time to try out my half finished pedal box before i put the other one in.

it fits!! sort of anyway, need to grind/bash out a bit near the accel linkage shaft for the master cylinder to line up, and i still have to do the clutch master cylinder.

but it bolts in and looks like itll clear the body when everythings bolted up properly.

gonna be fun bleeding these sons of bitches though!!