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Combination Stop sign/grade crossing sign. You can see the bottom of the "(X number of) Tracks" sign above the stop sign, and the tracks behind the car.

Same here. What is the color code for "Royal Black"? Never heard of it, and can't find it on the BMW color charts.

Mentioning TVR brings to mind a couple of Clarkson's comments about them: ?Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.? and perhaps the most memorable: "In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, p...

5 speed or automatic? If it really went to zero, the engine wouldn't recover. It would stall.

bpoliakoff wrote:Sporting goods store....hockey stick tape...less tahn $3 a roll

^ This. It's what my dad used to call "friction tape".

bunty635 wrote:AM READING THE LAST POST THINKING I WILL GO FOR THIS MEET.

Well, I hope your time machine works. The meet was yesterday.

Notwithstanding my previous comments, why don't BMW go the whole hog, turn the car into a "family friendly" 5-door hatchback and therefore make the car so unattractive to dyed-in-the-wool BMW enthusiasts that sales are non existent and that variant quietly dies :-k Agreed. To answer the q...

Chad, where are you located? If you have an Auto Zone, Pep Boys, Advance Auto Parts, O'Reilly's or any other chain parts store, MOST of them loan/rent tools, among them a vacuum pump brake/clutch bleeder. To me it's much simpler to use one of those than all that juggling of cylinder/bleed screw/feed...

I don't know where Brucey got his, but believe it or not, Radio Shack has 'em:

http://www.radioshack.com/family/index. ... gkw=magnet

None of those are very large, but you could use more than one.

If the lower boot, the felt insulation and the upper shift boot are all in good shape, they're doing their job, and you won't feel any air through the shifter hole. The shift boot (upper) on my 633 is in fair shape, but the retainer hoops is cracked, so it won't stay put on the console. However, the...

If $35 fixes it, consider yourself blessed. That's mighty cheap to have AC again.

Since the shift lever isn't connected directly to the transmission, it has to be getting heated by air flow from the engine and/or exhaust.

The seals/piston cups in your master cylinder are becoming iffy. At least that's what it's been on the vehicles I've had that did that. I've never had either E24 do that (yet).

Yet another reason to avoid living in California. Yes, it's beautiful. Yes it's blessed with many natural wonders and resources. Is it worth it to put up with their ever-increasing Draconian rules? Not to me, it isn't.

Good luck with your search for a cat solution.

Because he thinks us Big 6 owners are better off financially? That's a laugh!

I get about 200 miles per tank. I get nervous below 1/4. , so my readings are not accurate. I wanted to see how low I can go before the low fuel light, but chickened out. I do run 93 octane and don't move the car before the temp is off the blue mark. I wish the car had a little lower RPM in cruise....

Maybe he was looking for Alan?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXqkNF8fgs8

That's got to be a groundhog. If it's a rat, that thing is humongous.

Screen captures from the Wheeler Dealers episode in question. Mike talks with the seller about the "nasty" wheels, a couple more of the wheels from the side, and a screen shot of Edd China checking the "bushes", included because I wanted you to note where Edd positioned the lifti...

120 is the bolt circle in millimeters. 120 x 5 lugs. AFAIK, from the oldest to the newest BMW, all the BMW 5-bolt wheels are 120. And all the BMW 4 bolts are 100mm.

Offset for the E24 is ~20mm. A 120 offset would put the wheel center under the car about where the spring perch is!

Replace that vacuum line to the fuel pressure regulator while you're in there. That one looks pretty knackered.

cecotto479 wrote:If I tell you all how to remove them without damaging them, do I reduce the value of the ones I have here?

Yes, but your stock here would go up even higher than it already is.

Thanks guys Its great building a car like the cars you drive, I have 7 kits happening at this time and one is the revell kit you take about. Its one of the only kits available of the early e12 based 635. Some of the fujumi kits of the 635 are fantastic as there are even the Harge, Alpina and base 6...

That's some spectacular model building, especially for 1/24th scale! That fuse/relay panel detail is amazing.

I just got a Revell kit (#07377) that I'm looking forward to assembling to as close a copy of my 635 as I can manage.

Those are vacuum lines to/from the sensor on the thermostat housing. It operates the vacuum canister purge valve, the cone-shaped thingy plugged into the intake bellows between the throttle body and AFM. When the coolant reaches operating temperature the sensor opens and allows the vacuum from the m...