Alpina 333i Intake

[Alpina]

Here are the hose fittings for the brake booster as well as the RHD throttle cable bracket with hardware



STUNNING...........

salute..

really really fantastic IMO

[Doughnut]

Your tig welding skills are amazing! You have great attention to detail! These should excite anyone hoping to turbo/super charge their m30 to allow more room on the exhaust side!

Great work!

[Japandrew73]

Any progress on this project Japandrew73? Very good work! Definitely "built, not bought"!

Yes, it is for sale in the for sale section





Here are the hose fittings for the brake booster as well as the RHD throttle cable bracket with hardware

[e30e]

Wow, some people are really going out of there way to be asses

[iXguido]

Any progress on this project Japandrew73? Very good work! Definitely "built, not bought"!

[LowR3V'in]

I remember back maybe 2-3 years ago bmw told the admin of this site to
remove the bmw emblem from the front page.:hitler:

As long as you're not selling these things I think you'll be alright.
I know I wouldn't want a gay (and fake) "alpina" on the top of my intake anyway..

[BDK]

as mentioned before,
moving it to that side actually hurts performance in N/A applications,
in FI applications it doesn't hurt because it is Forced Induction.

You need to post/research on the 5 board and or talk to Chris Graf about it...

[TDE30]

I e-mailed the White House too. Sorry about that.

[rhett325i]

+1 on the douchebag move. If I could call Alpina and buy one of these from them new, it would be a different matter. All Andrew is trying to do is replicate something cool that has been long nla.

[Brian D]

I highly doubt anyone at Alpina will give a flying fuck.

Message. Sent.

I guess we'll find out.

Making a clone for yourself is one thing, selling the part with a copyrighted logo is another. Seeing as no parts have been sold, I think contacting Alpina legal may be a bit premature.

As a personal observation Trey, that's a douchebag move if you actually did it. Good to know that you're looking out for large corporations, are you going to sic BMW on all the guys selling personalized Roundels or anything else bearing the BMW logo? You may have just opened up a big bag of shit.

[sharky]

hmm, very thin line you are walking with using thier font etc. I know alot of people on ebay do it and I doubt its a problem but really you never know with copyright shit. Otherwise Drew I aplaud you foir finding such presiceness in all you do, doing a 333i clone definetly deserves some props.

[Jand3rson]

Really, Trey? Really?

[TDE30]

http://www.alpina-automobiles.com/en/topnavi-de/legal.html

Message. Sent.

[wildstoats]

Using Alpina's logo (i'm sure its trademarked) without their consent on something you sell is not ok if you just say its a replica. Ebay is not where you should go for legal advice

Ah yes, I didn't think about the logo. Yeah I could see them getting upset about that.

[TwoJ's]

Back to the program. When you put the intake on the other side, do you just bolt a blank plate to the original opening? I never fully understood fluid dynamics, but I take it reversing where the air comes from doesn't change the flow much -- or when it's pushed by a turbo it matters not?

Having > ATM makes the point of intake less significant. But either way, it does make a difference. The manifolds were not designed to have air come from that side. Alpina simply did that because it was cheap and easy. If they were actually trying to get efficient power out of the motor, they would have designed their own manifold.


And as far as the legality goes... Japanese Andrew might as well be mocking himself. Regrdless of how many people rip off their logo and sell shit on ebay, it is still not legal. But since you are such a small timer and you are copying their manifold that was inferior in flow from the original design, I highly doubt anyone at Alpina will give a flying fuck. It is actually funny... you are putting time and effort in to making a product that would perform better had you left it alone.