87 535is - getting started

[Brian.]

Shit, I'll be posting up pictures of my stuff tomorrow Merl! So we'll have a face off!

[wasnt m3]

Car is coming along nicely! Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing this car in person!

[merl]

Engine assembly will start late this week or early next week so I will be sure to take a bunch of pictures.

[Brian.]

Engine assembly, how lovely. I muscled all my motor stuff in and out myself. Lift would be 10x nicer no lie.

[merl]

just got work .. head is complete .. block is being dipped and will be back tomorrow ... oh ya !!

[Brian.]

yay! I take it you're hottanking your head?

[merl]

Hot tanked the block .... the head was done before I got it. 

Fingers crossed .... This engine "may" go in this weekend !!!

[Brian.]

Oh nice! post up pictures!

[merl]

It's official ... engine assembly tomorrow 

[Brian.]

Take tons of photo's! I wanna see how well she cleaned up!

[merl]

Gonna be delayed... Need the block bored ... Uggg

[Earl]

Why?!?!?? That's no good. So no progress at all this weekend?

[merl]

Lots of progress.. I will update later when I am on the computer

[merl]

So ... Not really bad news, it just delays us a bit. When I ordered the pistons, I ordered them for my engine but I never cross-referenced the numbers ... hind sight 20/20. The pistons call for a 92.5 bore and the factory block is 92.0 ... Pistons don't fit. The reason I say this is not really bad news is the fact that I did have some pitting in my cylinders. Not scoring, just pitting as the car sat for years at one point in it's life. Now we have to bore .5 mm over which will take care of all those flaws and give me a cleaner cylinder. 

So .. block will go in Monday. We will have to see how long it will take to get done and I still need Mat at Urban Motorworx to complete the longblock as I want him to verify clearances and time it. 

Good news is that we put in all new main and connecting rod bearing and it was spot on. Clearances there were all right in the middle of spec. With the crank torqued down, it spun with minimal effort. 

Most of my pics are on my real camera and I will upload those later but you do get the assembled pistons in their resting place for the time being.....

[YoungCR]

Nothing wrong with more displacement

[KaiserRolls]

CYoung said:

Nothing wrong with more displacement

there's no replacement for displacement. 

unless you turbo......

but we all know what that means..

Lookin' forward to seeing this thing all together!!!!

[Brian.]

D'aww. Well, I'm excited!

[merl]

Ok finally ... Tomorrow round 2 of engine assembly !!!

[jockhater2]

Brian said:

Fuck the Euro M20. Go with the big six. I'm still looking for a B35 head. =\

There is a 735i at the local junk to me.

The 735i engine bay looks similar to this

http://www.meeknet.co.uk/e32/E32_M30_Engine_2.jpg252Fwww.meeknet.co.uk%252Fe32%252FE32_M30_Engine_2.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.meeknet.co.uk%252Fe32%252FM30_Distributor_Leads.htm%3B700%3B525

[merl]

After a marathon weekend, the engine is in and it STARTED !! ... Ran a heat cycle on it and did the final head torque. There is a handfull of things to button up and I do seem to have some tune issues but there was no time left for troubleshooting as I was exhausted ... Freakin thing sounds wonderful at idle though