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Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:15 pm

what a pice of shit! ford???? pah!!!!
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Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:47 pm

Andyboy wrote:Not sure. But the Pinto is just yesterday's news and they were never that great anyway. Consider that the 1500 bhp Brabham F1 Turbo BMW engines (Nelson Piquet era early eighties) were based on 1600 M10 engines. For these, the bods involved bought several mega mileage 1500 and 1600 blocks from Munich scrapyards out of old 1500/1600 BMW saloons. This is because old blocks are destressed (new blocks always have casting stresses). They raced with about 950-1000 bhp but qualified with over1200 bhp. 8O
It would have shown more than that but BMW's engine dyno wouldn't read any more.

So all these 800 bhp Skylines aren't THAT impressive really.

How's the red iS by the way?
The red IS is still going sweet its my brothers car,must say dave at Parkside BMW looked after it well.
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Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:27 pm

HotboxDeluxe wrote: seriously though, i'd have thought the last person on earth who'd rather have a pinto in a bmw than a bmw engine probably died a long time ago :P
i take it you dont agree with my cossie engine then as im sure the cossie was based on a pinto block :D odd conversion though for sure :mad:
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Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:29 pm

I read somewhere that BMW engineers took those old blocks and weathered them outside over winter, peed on them as well to ensure they rusted - this process apparently toughens up the casting, so they were well and truly work-hardened for racing...
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Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:19 pm

320iSE wrote:I read somewhere that BMW engineers took those old blocks and weathered them outside over winter, peed on them as well to ensure they rusted - this process apparently toughens up the casting, so they were well and truly work-hardened for racing...
They got old multi mile engines from the scrappies and used those I thought...
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Mon Dec 25, 2006 7:03 am

why,why,why!!! it makes me :cheese: mad!!! :wtf:
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Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:30 pm

fuzzy wrote:
HotboxDeluxe wrote: seriously though, i'd have thought the last person on earth who'd rather have a pinto in a bmw than a bmw engine probably died a long time ago :P
i take it you dont agree with my cossie engine then as im sure the cossie was based on a pinto block :D odd conversion though for sure :mad:
not true! :wink: i'm not a purist, "wrong" engines are fine (a diet of hot rod and custom cars mags as a kid saw to that) but taking something ok-ish out and replacing it for something worse is just stupid 8O a cossie motor is dandy, it's wrong but you can't argue with ya power figures 8) iirc there were a couple of cosworth e30's in the really early max power comics (y'know, back when it was actually an okay read?? long time ago) and does anybody remember a skyline-fired e28? 8)
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Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:59 pm

anyone notice the spray job on the alloy? nice maskin effort on the tyre valve
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