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what does 2.5 6 pot weigh
any body know ?
i would guess at approx 350 kg ?

The mass of a 2.5 6 pot is actually 117kg dry

so your waaay off.

march109 wrote:The mass of a 2.5 6 pot is actually 117kg dry

so your waaay off.

the parts etk sticky in the tech section lists the short engine as about that on its own without the head or ancillaries attached.

took my specs from http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh ... adid=89822

I count the short engine and head as the full engine, water pump, oil pump air con ect ect I do not consider to be 'part' of the engine and only supplemental complimentary parts, after all the fuel pump is in the fuel tank but that too is neccessary for an engine to run!

march109 wrote:The mass of a 2.5 6 pot is actually 117kg dry

so your waaay off.

no way in hell! average 4 pot twink is about 150 dressed and dry if its iron block

alistairolsen wrote:

march109 wrote:The mass of a 2.5 6 pot is actually 117kg dry

so your waaay off.

no way in hell! average 4 pot twink is about 150 dressed and dry if its iron block

Yeah Whatever!!!

Where do you get your figures from, you might be right if your talking lbs and not kg's!!!!

I've lifted one, didn't weigh it, but lifted one and I'd say its 120kg of back breaking metal, so do the chaps at bimmer forums and so do all these fellas who have also lifter and changed them:
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... =m20+weigh
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... =m20+weigh
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... =m20+weigh

Fancy pulling yours out and weighing it for us? That is if you think theres no way in hell!

I weighed my vauxhall xe engine before I jammed it into a corsa. It was 155k with the manifolds and everything to run.

Its a fairly typical dohc 16v with alloy head and iron block.

No way do you get a straight 6 to be 117!

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=99913

180 kg with everything bar flywheel

thats more like what id expect! not too heavy really to be honest

I could just about lift a bare M20 block in and out of the back of the touring.I doubt that I could lift one into the boot of a saloon.It took 3 to lift a short motor into the touring,and I needed to hire a crane to get it out!!

Many thanks , so complete eng and gt box around will be under approx 230 kg
just want to order some slings so 350 or 500 kg will do fine

daimlerman wrote:I could just about lift a bare M20 block in and out of the back of the touring.I doubt that I could lift one into the boot of a saloon.It took 3 to lift a short motor into the touring,and I needed to hire a crane to get it out!!

a bare block weighs 42kg or about the sane as a bag of cement so IMO not that hard........ try lifting an assembled bottom end (block + crank + rods + pistons) which would be 65-70kg now thats was difficult in and out of a saloon.

I am the one that gets sand kicked in his face on the beach....