Bavarian Solutions CNC'ed S5X ported heads

[BlackE30]

Ryan,

Saw your car up at Racewerks the other day. Looks like they are taking good care of it. Are you back in the area?

Did you pay 10k for one of those heads?

Jeff

[rneedham1979]

Jeff,

Nope not yet. I probably wont be back until next year sometime. I may be back over the Christmas holiday but I will be spending time with family and not working on the car...

The guys at Racewerks are great, I am sure they are doing a great job!

As for the cost of the head.... the head I purchased and the head that was tested is a stage 3 head, it has a different valve job than the stage 2 head. The stage 2 head is 3700 and the stage 3 is 4600. So no, I did not spend 10k on the head. Although the head was expensive I got a great deal that I could not pass up...

Dave @ Bavarian Solutions is a great guy and is an absolute pleasure to do business with. I highly recommend him for all of you performance parts etc...

Ryan,

Saw your car up at Racewerks the other day. Looks like they are taking good care of it. Are you back in the area?

Did you pay 10k for one of those heads?

Jeff

[z31maniac]

It's possible, sure...but not on pump gas, and it certainly wouldn't be a street motor you'd want to cold-start every morning. There is a big difference between squeezing 260whp and 300whp out of an M50 based engine. It's the difference between a stock long-block with OTS Schricks and a built 12:1+ race motor.

I prefer a potent street motor that has a torque curve that comes on early and screams to 6800 or so and only needs 7000 rpm on the top. My .02

Agreed. Assuming there isn't the headgasket issue I'm fearing, Schricks/Dr Vanos/new Tune might happen over the winter.

[rneedham1979]

Bavarian solutions is looking at having a group buy on the head. Check out the link.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1304417