64247

Attached are some pics of 64247. The car has 27k miles on it. I acquired it this past summer and have spent the past few months focused on two things: removing heinous amounts of 1990's era aftermarket wiring (Clifford Intelliguard 800 alarm wired into every orifice of the car, trunk mounted cell phone, front and rear firing radar detector wiring, and heinous amounts of non-working stereo equipment (amps, crossovers, more crossovers, more amps)), and fixing the fuel system.

The fuel system was an interesting one - right bank died while I was driving it - wiring is all intact, no scorched connectors in the relay panel. While I was rewiring (dewiring?) everything I also set up separate power supplies for both pumps as suggested by the helpful folks here, but still no improvement. I pulled both fuel sending units, and both had a short rubber hose between the coiled pump outlet hose and the sending unit plate that had completely split (thank you, ethanol). I replaced those and she fired right up and ran great. Other than that I put in Iridium plugs (I went with a 6 heat range, but will probably move up to a 7), installed rear seat belts (lap belts only, the others were removed when it was converted to a convertible), installed a 760 amp AGM battery, and cleaned everything up.

One of the oil cooler lines was leaking; I had New England Hydraulics in Woburn, MA fabricate one for me (excellent job).

It's changed hands several times; it came with an interesting receipt from Ultrasmith Customs in NYC for a gent named Lud Denny. The receipt is from April 1992 and is for $249,726.67 of which $125,826.67 is for accessorizing the car, including:
-$45k to convert to a convertible (black top)
-$12.5K to repaint in Rolls Royce midnight blue metallic
$17.5k for complete made-to-order interior
$7.75k for bi-amplified Nakamichi sound system
$4k for Motorola voice-activated phone with custom antennas
$3.95k for anti-theft system
etc.etc.etc.

The car has five TRX rims intact (refinished as part of the work above) and the toolkit and jack intact.

Next items are an oil change as well as air filters (suggestion on air filter sources, as well as the technique for changing them from under the k-jetronic units are appreciated).

This site has been a huge amount of help and as I learn about the car I will post anything that may be of use.

Thanks

Dave
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Thanks folks. Aidan Parte lives near me and coincidentally a fellow car fanatic connected us - I took 64247 over to Aidan last night so he could test drive it. GT Jones I think you are close as well, if you're interested in coming out for a Thursday night garage night let me know (several of us occasionally get together to enjoy a beverage, talk about cars and motorcycles - a rare opportunity to see more than one 400i/412 in the same place!).

 

I thought I read Straman converted around 29 or so. Although a prior owner paid Ultrasmith for the conversion (Ultrasmith is no longer around), it isn't clear to me if they did it or it was sent to Straman on a subcontract job. I presume Straman did it...