Hi – so you found my website, maybe through a link from somewhere else or maybe from a search engine. Maybe we even met up at a BMW meeting or something.
This is not a commercial site, I’m just a petrolhead (gearhead for US visitors) who would like to share my life in the hobby with like-minded folks. Here you can find informative stories (under the Cars and Facilities menus) of how I solved certain problems with a repair or modification plus some blog posts of holiday trips made with the car, meetings attended etc. Some of the work done is possibly beyond the scope of the average visitor as I am lucky enough to have a pretty large workshop (by Dutch standards anyway) with fairly extensive equipment like a lathe and milling machine but it may give you ideas on how to achieve your own automotive goals.
The site has only been around in this form since June 2014 although has had many mutations through various software packages, some published (briefly) some not. It has always been alive in my head although I don’t always find the time to do anything practical with it, my hands are generally busy in the workshop. Documenting projects photographically is always a problem with workshop hands, this is especially true with my my present camera – a Samsung NX300, so there are quite often gaps in the stories. It is also still under development and I will be pre-dating a lot of the content added, at least for the foreseeable future. So if you come back in a months time you will possibly find even more content of cars from years earlier.
Please enjoy looking around and if you have any comments or questions I would love to hear them. I will also gladly give advice etc. about how to solve your own problems. Visitors from the Netherlands (or for that matter finding themselves in the Netherlands) are always welcome to come and visit me, get in touch for my home address.
Hi Martyn, many thanks for your work on the 635 squirters. For some reason your pic of the thermal switch no longer exists on the bigcoupe website and I am trying to identify where it actually is. Can you repost or copy to me? I’m in the midst of getting mine working again. I’ve posted a pic of what I think is the switch. Many thanks. David
Hi David,
Sorry for the late response. Retired recently and started a new part-time job locally so I seem to have been focussing on other things. I re-uploaded the photos which seemed to have disappeared but the position of the switch in the motor is as you can see in motor2.jpg. Hopefully this is a bit clearer but otherwise contact me directly (martyn@automotivelife.nl)
Regards Martyn.
Martyn, we haven’t met before. I found a post on the bigcoupe forum about modifications done to your (?) M6/M635. I was researching about the Miller MAF and WAR chip modifications. I wanted to get your opinion on that setup. Are you still using it? Or have you changed to something else? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks, Dennis
PS I live in Northern Nevada, USA and have a ’87 M6 – red with white leather interior.
Excellent site. A lot of useful information here. I am sending it to some pals ans additionally sharing in delicious. And obviously, thank you to your sweat!
Hi Martyn. Just started to take a look on your website. Need to see what interesting things I find here. We met last week at Brent’s. I’m Rudy, the guy with the Martini Porsche, remember? Still impressed about the beauty of your Shovel. I really loved
It, 😍