Alpina C2 2.7 touring. At the paint shop

[oguz327]

F*cking hell! Its a blast from the past!

Have you missed me Barry?

Love you to Oz!

X box broken is it?!

Come to the ring gaylord!

Nah, Toms hoggin the xbox at the moment

If someone pays my beer money for the weekend, Ill consider it

[bss325i]

Have you missed me Barry?

Love you to Oz!

X box broken is it?!

Come to the ring gaylord!

Nah, Toms hoggin the xbox at the moment

If someone pays my beer money for the weekend, Ill consider it

I'll buy you some FAXX!

Ric need a passenger!

[Theo]

Oz, I will personally donate 3 euros to your beer fund.

I know, I know - I'm far too generous.

[Bob_S]

Oz even the lowly northern monkey will donate 2.5 euro to your beer fund!!

[Jhonno]

I'll buy you a beer Oz

[Apex]

Very nice touring, admire your attention to detail

[B7]

Oz. Come to the ring or you'll be OFFICIALLY GAY.

[SUMPCRACKER]

Trevor, that not very PC. My dads are gay.

Simon this will be so nice when done, nothing worthwhile is easy and that includes buying parts.

[powelly]

I managed to find the area of ETK with all the underseal and stuff, took all of 2 minuites.
Here is the page they are after.

[Simon13]

Well thanks to Powelly the underseal drama is sorted!

Just heads and camshafts to sort now

[Ant]

I'll buy Oz a few too, but only if he keeps his shirt on this year lol !

Si, boot OK ?

[Simon13]

Ant i've not fitted it yet. I've bodged the rust on the old tailgate and made it worse So i'll fit it now! it's 100 times better than the one on there

Note to me leave bodywork alone!

[Demlotcrew]

[tomson]

Looking very good Si, keep the brakes for the 2door!

[Simon13]

Evo-S are offically useless

4 weeks and counting

Hope Salad reads this

[B7]

Evo-S are offically useless

4 weeks and counting

Hope Salad reads this

Oh F*ck. Sorry mate, completely forgot about horsham today! I got on a conference call leaving chichester and didn't finish it till i got back to my office in crawley!! Sorry!

[Simon13]

it's ok! he didn't ring about the heads. I'm working in Ashtead on an extention 2moro. I shall be paying a visit to Mr. Ike and be coming home with some thing

[Theo]

it's ok! he didn't ring about the heads. I'm working in Ashtead on an extention 2moro. I shall be paying a visit to Mr. Ike and be coming home with some thing

A pair of empty hands?

[bss325i]

it's ok! he didn't ring about the heads. I'm working in Ashtead on an extention 2moro. I shall be paying a visit to Mr. Ike and be coming home with some thing

A black eye?

[SUMPCRACKER]

it's ok! he didn't ring about the heads. I'm working in Ashtead on an extention 2moro. I shall be paying a visit to Mr. Ike and be coming home with some thing

An STD?

[Simon13]

So i've come home with both heads and both cams and a rather tasty headjob but thats for another car. Anyhow the head is back with 6 new exhaust valve guides if Sal gets it act together i'll have it running by this weekend but i'm doubt this will happen!

My camera is lost but it's all systems go!

[bss325i]

[B7]

My camera is lost but it's all systems go!

just as well I had mine then

1st up we have the inlet port on the original C2 2.7 head.


And heres the 2.5 heads inlet after the man from horsham fiddled with it. They appear to have taken more meat away either side of the valve guide mount.



But heres the trouser tightening part

Original C2 2.7 combustion chamber


And the reworked 2.5's


Uncanny ain't it?
As a reference, heres a standard 2.5 chamber to compare


Exhaust ports appear to have been left as was bar a slight clean up. As we discovered before the exhaust ports on the C2 head were perfectly round almost gasket matched.

Personally I reckon this is as close you're gonna get to an original C2 head.

[bss325i]

Hemispherical, get in!

You got one done to then Trev?

[B7]

Hemispherical, get in!

You got one done to then Trev?

No this is Si's head. I had to have a look before they went back to camberley.

Too strapped for cash at the mo. If i stumble on a good 325 head in the future I may get it done but I can't warrant the machining costs + a cam etc.

[Simon13]

PYF's head has come very good for my 2dr

[SUMPCRACKER]

Thats pretty serious.
Nice finish on the ports, are you going to use standard pistons with those chambers?

[DanThe]

Thats pretty serious.
Nice finish on the ports, are you going to use standard pistons with those chambers?

This head is for the Alpina bottom end/pistons isnt it?

[B7]

Yeah. It it will run the custom mahle alpina slugs.

[Simon13]

which have an upped CR to make up for the meat removed from the chambers

[SUMPCRACKER]

^Yes thats what i was worried about, an extra 20ish cc in the head is going to drop the compression quite a bit.

[Simon13]

pina slugs are 9.7 so the CR is in the rightish area for some power.

Undersealed the few plates needed in the drivers inner arch tonight. Big thanks to Powelly for lending me his compressor and Shultz underseal gun. I've found the camera! too. So hopefully with the seam sealer and primer and stonechip paint we can keep the rust away for a long time to come!

All the interior is refitted loving it

Head is now at my dads as hes going to give it a flash up on the mating surface ready for the refit




Ah the diff! I sold the original LSd for the car in a quick moment of madness (3.91) and then thought maybe that was a bad idea but........I've got this 3.73. So in it went! I mainly wanted to see what they are like as i've never had one before and the extra RPM in each gear and slightly lower cruising RPM's is going to be a welcome. This has come from a 115k auto car, low milege auto LSD's are where its at!

Also i've changed the backplate for a spare i had with the tougher ZM3 diff bush fitted



In she popped, fell back in this one!

[bss325i]

This has come from a 115k auto car, low milege auto LSD's are where its at!

No one wants my 105k auto cab 3.73 LSD!

[Simon13]

to much £££ barry, drop the price

[bss325i]

to much £££ barry, drop the price

Its not a shagged 3.91!

£300 is the going rate for a minty 3.73!