New parts & a triple quarter pounder.

A few weeks ago, we decided to make a short road trip up to Redline Performance, where the owner, Rennie Bryant, was nice enough to let us foray through his parts bays, bins, and attics. We were fortunate enough to find a set of used 2002 widebody fenders, that had been sitting in an attic since the early 90's! they have some damage, but we think we can get them to fit with some elbow grease.

While we waited for Rennie, Jay destroyed this Triple Quarter pounder, as if it was a slider! He means business when its time to eat!

When it was all said and done, we left Rennie's shop with a complete fiberglass widebody, a fiberglass seat, steering wheel, Gauge, and 4 pt roll bar...

I'd say it was a productive outing.

Early stages of prep

So I finally got into tearing into the car a bit. First plan of attack was pulling the drivetrain to start prepping the body. Took a day aside for paperwork and downtime, and started on the car early to have it out in one day.

The old M10-

Earlier in the week i had been going out after work, and soaking any bolts I thought would give me trouble. And it turned out to be a good idea. Once all the wiring was out of the way the bolts starting coming out like buttah.

First pulled the exhaust manifold out, along with the entire exhaust.

Everything else un-bolted fairly easy, and out she comes..

No real jacking hooks on this motor, so i reluctantly pulled the front side by the alternator bracket.

Until it was out, then I could grab it from the bellhousing.

Next was pulling out the driveshaft, and diff. Which I wasn't able to take any pictures of.... Because my mini-me basically stole the show.

Pushed me to the side, saying "i got this"

Good thing! cut my work in 1/2!

 Hope you guys like rust! stay tuned

-Jay

The 2011 GRM project has begun

Welcome to our documentation of our newest project. An old hunk of German steel that we plan to bring to the $2011 Grassroots Motorsport challenge in Gainsville next fall. A 1975 BMW 2002.

  From 2006-2009 Carlos Mendez, and Jimmy Hageman turned an average everyday 88 BMW 325is into a track monster. I met Carlos, and Jimmy at a local car hang out in 2008-slowly hung around their shop more, and more until early 2010, I jumped on board and began helping them with their newest transformation of the car. An all steel custom wide-body, and many other upgrades, including a bigger turbo, and suspension bits.We came in 3rd place overall at the event, but we still consider it a sucess. The e30 was supercar fast, and the community loved it, so much so to get an invite to the Ultimate track car challenge @ VIR in July- Which we're all very exited about.

 So a week or so after the event- Carlos, John, and I got together to talk about next years plans. Wanting to stay with BMW mainly because we all drive them, and have a healthy parts collection, the choice was obvious-. A cult classic, the car that started it all! What we were looking for in a chassis, it fit the bill perfect. Sure enough, Jimmy found one a few miles from us on C-list, and it was white, had no sunroof, had a solid chassis- So, after much haggleing, and a crazy trailor marathon I brought her home in one peice.

- Jay