Alpina 2.7 Engine

[davrosbeemer]

I am talking to a guy at the moment who has an 86 325 for sale. He claims it has got a genuine Alpina 2.7 engine with LSD out of a crashed donor car. I guess this is a C2 as its a 2.7 but his knowledge of this is fairly scant as he has owned the car for just over a year and the conversion had alraedy been done.

Is there any easy way of identifying the engine as genuine? I don't want to go and see it and find he's been feeding me loads of bull!

If he could give me the engine number could Sytners confirm it?

Cheers in advance

[M5pilot]

There are some simple checks:

Rocker cover and inlet manifold shoud be a black/grey finish

6 branch manifold (if your lucky)

There should be a head number on the head

Engine block should have engraving at the bottom on AFM side.

Initials on rocker cover

Then theres the performance:

Shit loads of bottom end torque, third gear should make it really fly. It should be abig difference from a 2.5.

You dont need to ring sytner on this one, you can verfiy the engine no prblems. They wil find it next to impossible to track down an engine without a chassis number to which it originally belonged.

[davrosbeemer]

Will call the guy in the morning. I asked him about the manifold earlier and he said it was cracked so he changed it for a 325 one.
Will find out about the rest tomorrow and hope for the best.

Cheers for the input