Operation: Parking Lot Hartge: Update 9/21/22, Back in the saddle

[landspeed]

For oil, 1qt of Redline MTL and 0.7qt of 80wt gear oil. That's what Carl Nelson from La Jolla Independent recommends. It's worked well for me over the last few years.

Good to know, I've been reading a lot of conflicting information.

[adrian in florida]

Trey's car
Trey's old car
Adrian's car
Justin's car
Your car
Some H5SP that rotted away in a field.

I got an email from a friend who is considering purchasing the h5sp motor. I know the mechanic who has had the motor stored away for years. Ive never seen it just heard about. Its in florida. My friend may have purchased it by now. Stay tuned my friend wants to do a build with his son.

[landspeed]

Trey's car
Trey's old car
Adrian's car
Justin's car
Your car
Some H5SP that rotted away in a field.

I got an email from a friend who is considering purchasing the h5sp motor. I know the mechanic who has had the motor stored away for years. Ive never seen it just heard about. Its in florida. My friend may have purchased it by now. Stay tuned my friend wants to do a build with his son.

I thought that car was destroyed. The motor was stored away? That would be interesting.

[landspeed]

Been a while since I've posted an update, almost exactly 2 years. Lots has happened, so I thought I would get you guys caught up. Moved to Oregon, bought a house.

Slowly was putting the car back together from the initial teardown. Long story short, it runs and drives, kinda. The bottom end is still questionable, I think it was also damaged from the overheat. Runs very poorly cold, won't idle, runs better warm. Had to install an oil catch can due to all the blow by .

Transmission shifts ok, but sometimes will get stuck in 1st. Hope I don't have to open up the case again.

Replaced thrust arm bushings, took care of 90% of front suspension slop.

Been spending as much time as I can sorting all the little stuff, but between paying off some debt, and my furnace dying, my Hartge budget is in the red.

I have a bunch of photos of the car in it's current, sad, dirty state, but I'm typing this at work. Will update in a few days.

5erWest '16 is the goal.

[leadphut]

welcome back and welcome to Oregon!

[landspeed]

welcome back and welcome to Oregon!

Thanks!

Actually been here since Aug. '14, but been kind of a ghost since then. Hope to be more active in the future. Would love to get together with some of you fine folks, even though I was a 5erWest '15, I wasn't too social.

[Adam W in MN]

Wow forgot about this, good of you to persevere and I hope the day comes soon to have it in great shape as a driver. That blue paint is just too gorgeous, I want to see some rolling pictures of it some day.

[bkbimmer]

Welcome back.

[1st 5er]

I know about stalled projects.
Thanks for the update.

[hubble1953]

Hope to see you and the hartge at 5erWest this summer:)
jm

[landspeed]

Time for an update.

We're on the home stretch in the countdown to 5erWest. I have been working hard trying to get the car ready. However, due to several reasons, progress has been slow up to a few weeks ago. I am still working on securing insurance on the vehicle, then I can get a temp tag, since I highly doubt it would pass smog in its current state.

After installing my very necessary "$35 air/oil separator", she is actually driveable. The problem is that I have only driven the car 2 miles in the 3 years I've owned the car, and it hasn't been registered in 5 years. I need to do a lot of shakedown drives to make sure it can make the 70 mile round trip to 5erWest.

Here is the car as of today. Don't mind the dust.

[Adam W in MN]

Great to see, more pics and details needed!

[wkohler]

Fingers crossed! Looking forward to seeing it this weekend!

[austin8753]

Get special interest plates. They're $15 and permanent, no more emissions, ever! Hope to see it this weekend.

[landspeed]

Unfortunately, I waited until the last minute to attempt insurance, and Allstate's system didn't like the Vin. So, now it's taking longer than anticipated, and could be next week until it's actually on the policy. Luckily, my agent is a car guy and is trying to expedite the process so I can make it on Saturday.

[landspeed]

Great to see, more pics and details needed!

Pics and details of the car? or the oil separator?

Get special interest plates. They're $15 and permanent, no more emissions, ever! Hope to see it this weekend.

That's what I was thinking. Hopefully the DMV will go through with it, however, the Regs are kinda vague. And, only one plate!!! Wooo!!!

[Adam W in MN]

Great to see, more pics and details needed!

Pics and details of the car? or the oil separator?

The car please!

[austin8753]

Great to see, more pics and details needed!

Pics and details of the car? or the oil separator?

Get special interest plates. They're $15 and permanent, no more emissions, ever! Hope to see it this weekend.

That's what I was thinking. Hopefully the DMV will go through with it, however, the Regs are kinda vague. And, only one plate!!! Wooo!!!

I did it with my track car last month and it was really easy. I just told them that it was mostly a track day car and occasionally would see the street to "exercise the engine" The DMV clerk saw no issue with it and issued my plates.

[landspeed]

Great to see, more pics and details needed!

Pics and details of the car? or the oil separator?

The car please!

Anything specific you'd like to know that wasn't mentioned earlier in the thread?

I did it with my track car last month and it was really easy. I just told them that it was mostly a track day car and occasionally would see the street to "exercise the engine" The DMV clerk saw no issue with it and issued my plates.

That would be great.

[hubble1953]

How is the h5 doing???:). Hope to see it at 5erWest this year.
jm

[landspeed]

How is the h5 doing???:). Hope to see it at 5erWest this year.
jm

Progress is sloooow, but it will be at 5erWest again this year. Installing a motor mount and trans mount this weekend, reinstalling the Nakamichi head unit, and just general clean up. Oh yeah, and I still need to register it.

Ian

[hubble1953]

was great to see your car at 5erWest this year. Still can't believe how you got that valve cover:)
jm

[Adam W in MN]

Progress is sloooow, but it will be at 5erWest again this year. Installing a motor mount and trans mount this weekend, reinstalling the Nakamichi head unit, and just general clean up. Oh yeah, and I still need to register it.

Ian

Pics of the registration

[zentropy]

Very cool. I don't think I've ever seen an E28-based Hartge. I've been critical before of the stripes and general styling of the Alpinas, but find those on the Hartge to be complementary without being ostentatious. Nice!

[hubble1953]

Hi Lan: What is going on with your hartge?
jm