£2500, 2-3 year old M54 3 litre from a smashed 330i, 231 bhp standard, will drive like a pussycat, do 30 plus MPG and will shit all over E30 M3's and any of that tuned M20 stuff. Plus it will do 150'000 miles. The M20 was a very good engine.........15 -20 years ago. Anybody who pisses £2500 away...

Top project - I love it. Hey Dips, there's a space in Total BMW for this when it's done Dude, we'll talk at the Ace next time I'm down. Whilst the manifolds and cam covers are off, I can feel some satin black coming on, Alpina styleee. That'd look mint. What are u going to do for a diff? Would the s...

I don't (ta!) but Ant will have it because he wants a scrap M20 head for something and I was going to give him mine. 525e heads are worth about Ԛ£3 as scrap!

c76jon wrote:pete spends all his money on subscriptions to "interesting" web sites

"There's no more Joy than the bum of a Boy"

Don't know because it's in an E28 with a 3.07 final drive and an autobox that wants to change up at 2500 rpm. I drove it again tonight to go down the shops - it pulls away very sharply, feels like it's got a lot of low down torque. I don't know how much better it would be with the 325i AFM but it's ...

Compression is 9.4:1. Standard post 8/85 525e is 10:1 with flat top pistons. 325i pistons have a raised front edge to match the pocket in the head but the rest of the piston is quite deeply dished. Eurpean 1987/8 325e's were called "Super Eta' because they had a standard Eta engine and flat tops but...

02 ti carbs are Dellortos tii runs on Kugelfisher mechanical injection (same system as the E9 CSL and CSi) Not quite.......... The 1600Ti and 200/2002Ti ran on Solex 40PHH carbs, the Tii used Kugelfischer mechanical injection and the E9 Coupes used Bosch D Jetronic which was an all electronic set u...

My old 525e had a cracked head, mixing oil and water badly in the cooling system. So I pulled the head off, whipped out the cam and there it was, a dirty great crack in No.5 journal. I already had a couple of good 325i (885) heads - one had a bit of alloy corrosion in the back waterway but a very ne...

Who says I'm a member of the BMW Car Club? I certainly am not, nor am I a member of any car club. I'm not interested in committees or shitty monthly mags about how the Worcester region went ten pin bowling before a spot of Bum Love in the coach park. I hate car clubs with a passion. As for 'who had ...

which the experts would say are best left in a display case for future generations (!) Someone else apart from Jon with an intelligent point of view! Nobody (myself included) is saying that cars like the E30 M3 should be locked away and never used. That would be a pity. But track days? Not when I'm...

c76jon wrote: i aint into throwing 10k away i

john

Yeah, that's a lot of dollar to spunk away on a 316i!

As you say it's generally the guys who don't have the money who can spend it the best............

The M3 wasnt designed as Track Car? t was an Homologation car designed for Motorsport. Which in my experience tends to take place on Track. :cry: It was evolved from a Standard E30 shell into the car we see today. So at what point were BMW not thinking about track work :cry: Honestly, some of the c...

Absolutely. I always think of cars as a Tool I enjoy operating. If I slung it into a tree tomorrow, as long as I wasn't injured I wouldnt cry over it. Irritated certainly, but I wouldnt feel that I d let the future M Power owners down in any way. On an emotional level its the same as a set of Socke...

So in your opinion, somebody using an M3 as a track car (the very purpose it was designed for) is doing something immoral? :? Yes, but as someone who once owned one of the top five M3 Sport Evos in the country (bought from Pacer pete) I feel in a better position to comment. You clearly don't know m...