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BTCTheReaper

About my car + pics

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Hello all,
Well a bit about my car eh? It's a 82 pinin spider, light blue exterior, tan interior with a tan soft top. The hardtop matches the body color. I bought the car about 4 years ago, and all i had to do to get it running was adjust the TCS sensor. The car came from Virgina so it has very little body rust, pretty much just a few bubbles around the rear wheel wells. By looking it over I can tell, most noticably the bottoms of the doors, it has had body work done to it, and the light blue is not the original color. The original color was a, slightly darker greenish blue, would be the best way to describe it. Starting in August, I pulled the maunal trans. and replaced the sync. rings and springs. The housing got degreased, cleaned. and painted. After I was done with that the engine got tore down. All those parts got degreased and cleaned, and painted. The block got cast iron color, most of the other parts got silver paint, certain aluminum parts just got whire wheeled and were clear coated, with various red accents. The block got bored to accept 84.4mm high comp. pistons, the head got reworked to accept oversized valves, and installed a set of performance cams 80/40 grind. Installed hi-rev valve springs, polished the ports, had the crank polished, and replaced all the bearings. I pretty much did all the work except for the needed machine work and the polishing of the crank. There is a problem I am having but I will post that in the electrical area of the forum.
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I painted the hood black to get an idea of what the color would look on the car. I plan to do what little body work there is over the winter, and hopefully be ready to paint in the spring.
BTCTheReaper

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A few more pics.

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So Cal Mark

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cool! thanks for the story and pics
mdrburchette
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Nice work! I like the red accents on the engine.
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TulsaSpider
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Your car is a: 1978 Spyder 124 2L
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Wow your motor looks amazing!!
1978 Spyder 1800 make that 2L! Finally making real progress!
rlux4
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Your car is a: 1982 2000 Spider
Location: Granite Falls, Wa

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Very nice. I had seen another light blue Spider with matching hard top like yours on ebay recently and thought that it looked great. IMO it's the best looking hard top for our cars. The engine is sweet! Thanks for the pictures.
Ron
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'82 2000 Spider: after 26 years between Spiders.
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Tappy
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Your car is a: 124 spider 2000 1979
Location: Belgium ; Centre Of Europe

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Post by Tappy »

IMO it's the best looking hard top for our cars
then we share that opinion , that car looks stunning !! nice work on the engine !!
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mbouse

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Post by mbouse »

A+

go to the head of the class. Very nice write up and thanks so much for posting the pictures. I can tell you are gonna love the coming driving season.
swede

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Post by swede »

I love those pictures they really inspire me to start the major renovation work on my own car.
Thank you for the inspiration. :D
dahliacactus

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Post by dahliacactus »

That blue 82' with hard top on ebay was just picked up by my crazy pop for yours truly.
I wanted to ask the original poster how you like the hard top, how difficult is it to install/remove?

Great pictures, very excited to get my 82 looking great can't wait till it arrives so we can start swapping parts off my 79 part car.

As soon as i have pics i'll be posting my own introduction photos.
rlux4
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Hey, good for you dahliacactus, a great looking car, and an '82 to boot. Let us know how it shapes up when you get it.
Ron
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'82 2000 Spider: after 26 years between Spiders.
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