Project: Spielereien. AKA "The dumpster fire"

[delamaize]

More cleaning, and more assembly over the last few days. New water pump is on, Valley tray is back on, New Exhaust Manifolds, engine mount arms, and X5 oil block are on. Also took care of the carbon build up in the intake runners, and intake manifold. I gotta clean up the oil filter housing, and the alternator for reassembly. then at that point I am pretty much at a stop until I can afford new knock sensors. The ones I have are beyond toasted. The plastic housing on all 4 units are cracked and falling apart.

Also, does anyone know where to find a diagram of the engine harness for an automatic harness M60? I gotta remove all the auto shit from this thing. Alternately, If someone has a M60B40 manual harness they want to part with for a decent deal, PM me....

[delamaize]

Did a little work tonight on the M60, Did some minor reassembly, and some cleaning to the passenger side bank. Not going for spotless, just to get rid of the buildup, and get it mostly clean.

Stay tuned, I'll fix these pictures soon....

[delamaize]

Box-o-Seals, new water pump and thermostat came from Pelican today....Still waiting for my X5 oil block....

[delamaize]

Decisions were made, Not going to pull the heads. Seals and water pump ordered, also an X5 oil block. Cleaning of the motor and parts starts in the next few days, reassembly after that....

Also, I found a BMW DOT-R on the rear of the block, above the Valley pan, which reinforces my theory that, this engine one of the good Alusil block replacement, the numbers confirm this. So the likelihood that it has been rebuilt is now pretty much a sure thing.

Can't wait for the parts to come in so I can start reassembly.....

[CorvallisBMW]

I wouldn't worry about pulling the heads, it doesn't sound like a HG issue. Of course you could always check compression or leakdown, but that won't give you a 100% picture even then.

But like you said, junkyard motor open to the elements = bound to have some moisture in it.

[delamaize]

First potentially setback. I got the lower oil pan off tonight, everything went well with that, the more and more I dig into this engine, the more I think it has been rebuilt at one time. Oil pump, drive chain, and sprockets all look brand new.

Now the bad news, The pan had moisture sludge in the bottom of it. Not sure if this means it has a blown head gasket or crack somewhere, or if it's nothing. This wasn't much moisture, like a thin coating at the bottom of the pan, under the oil that was still in the pan. Now, This motor was in a junkyard, In a car that had the hood removed, and the oil cap was missing, so their is a possibility that some rain got into the motor. I'm not sure if I'm going to roll the dice and keep with the plan and not break the heads off the motor, or do the head gaskets. WAFFLES WAFFLES WAFFLES!!! This reseal is turning into a rebuild.

I'm going to talk to a mechanic buddy, and Maston (the IS300/aristo owner) and see what they think.

[delamaize]

A little more progress on the tear down, Timing chain guides look like they brand new, no wear marks at all, and from what I can see, they are totally intact. Chains also look fairly new. Water pump was shot, Impeller was pushed towards the back of the motor about 1/8", but was BARELY not touching the inner housing. I suspected this though, with the damage to the car. So far nothing out of the norm seen, Matter of the fact, I suspect that this was a low mileage, well maintained engine.







The valley pan shows no sings of leakage, or anything. I have heard that, if you're going to have broken bolts, or anything like that, it's going to be there. So, for the time being, I'm going to leave it be.

Tonight, after work, (well super early tomorrow morning after work) I'm going to pull the oil pans and check out the oil pump. After that, it's pretty much time to order parts, and start to clean.

[delamaize]

Now that the IS300/aristo swap is runner and driver, it's go time!

Brought the engine and tranny over to the house tonight, and started the tear down.

Got the exhaust manifolds, the engine mount arms, Oil filter housing, alternator, Intake manifold, injectors, Head covers, coils, plugs, and wiring harness off the long block tonight. Tomorrow I may attack the water pump, coolant tubes, the passage on the back that connects the heads, and I may attack the valley tray also. Ultimately I want to get this torn down to a long block, then check and/or replace everything that needs to be replaced.

Everything looks good, the oil that was in the filter housing was pretty clean, and the cams have pretty much no wear on them. I have one knock sensor that is pretty broken up, and the others have small cracks in them, So I'll need to replace those. Plugs look good. so far no stuck bolts, and nothing broken so far.
















so much carbon, Don't wanna pull the heads though, gotta figure out another way to clean it.


Also, does anyone know if the intake can be put into a parts cleaner without damage?

[delamaize]

ok, because of another shed of tools user in the forsale section, I got a mandatory 2 week vacation. During that time, I made a road trip to Cali, and ended up staying about 20 minutes from Garagistic's shop. So I made arrangements to pick up what was done of my order. They are shipping the rest when it's done.

Spal Fan


Driveshaft


Engine mount arms, 95a poly Tranny mounts, Tach Signal splitter, Power steering delete, E90 drop hats, and Throttle bushings.


I'm still waiting for the Exhaust manifolds, 95a poly Engine mounts, 6 speed tranny mount extensions, and another Camber/toe correction kit. I'm hoping they will show soon.

We are getting closer to starting this project though, the IS300/aristo swap we are working on is almost ready to start, and once it's runner/driver, it's party time for Spielereien....

[Yorl]

In for long term too. Mine's been off the road for 4 years. But yours is looking good!!

[delamaize]

Parts have started flowing in.....

[delamaize]

good update! congrats on the liquid encouragement. At least you bought parts, and not cars. that rarely turns out well

Yeah, Garagistic got a pretty good chunk of change from me. Bunch of stuff I needed for the swap, or for other projects. Picked up rear camber/toe kit, Billet throttle cable bushings for M60, Exhaust manifolds for the M60 swap, Engine mounts, sub frame spacers, tranny mount extension, drive shaft, Tach splitter, Fan, Drop hats, and a P/S block off block. Then I called and left a message at UUC, I'm pretty sure I sounded really drunk, but they still called me back. After my conversation with them I bought one of their "medium weight" flywheels and clutch kits. Shit's getting really real. I'll post pictures when the parts get here.

It will probably be this fall before I actually start assembling the whole thing. I still have some parts I want to find and build, and we need to get my buddies Aristo swapped IS300 running first.

[lemansguy]

good update! congrats on the liquid encouragement. At least you bought parts, and not cars. that rarely turns out well

[delamaize]

Drunk M60 swap parts spree!!

So I'm not going to lie, I had too much to drink tonight. I had been back and forth on buying some of the needed swap parts for a while now, and the liquid encouragement, and my buddy maston convened me to just pull the damn trigger. I got a care package from Garagistic.com coming soon.....

....still drunk btw.....

[delamaize]

Update:
House with a Garage acquired. First car in the Garage is my buddy's IS300 with a partially finished Aristo swap, then, Probably after the picnic, then Spielereien goes in the Garage, and they Mayhem starts.