Just to make sure everybody is crystal clear on this...

[Jonathan M3]

pfft......years ago in my eta I mis-shifted from 5th to 1st, instead of 5th to 3rd trying to beat a yellow light going about 60mph, rear tires squealed like crazy and I never heard an m20 make those kinds of noises before!!!!


I just put it back in 3rd and drove away fine like nothing happened. 8)

[BavarianBimmer]

Let him buy an M10


I push my M10 almost daily till the +7k rpm range when he's on full working temperature
Maybe you guys think an M10 is valueless but it has proved his ability in the 02's

[M-technik-3]

Pinging? sounds as though the damage was there already, then the valve let go and we know the rest of the story.

[Tangent]

Eh. A little JB Weld and it'll be good as new. :P

If that's the second time they've done this they definitely need to reconsider driving manual tranny cars...

[skat 325is]

Just a flesh wound...

[ETA fro]

Just a flesh wound...

yeah let it fight like a man

[Avus_325is]

I just wanna know how he even got the thing into 2nd gear without knowing it. :? I mean the gears aren't close at all in our cars. My car I would literally have to yank it as hard as I could to get it to go into 2nd with the engine at that high a speed.

Oh yea, can you kick him in the nuts for bein such an idiot.

[Jordan]

I just wanna know how he even got the thing into 2nd gear without knowing it. :? I mean the gears aren't close at all in our cars.

2nd gear is about 1/4inch to the left of 4th in my car.

Maybe he just doesn't have a sloopy stock shifter?

[Spoon e30]

yeah, i just put the 3.0l Z4 SSK in my car, and the shift pattern is Very close together. I can understand how you could make that mistake.

[Avus_325is]

SSK would still not make you able to stick the thing into 2nd doing anything over 60mph. Guess my syncros are going.

[AdamF 88iS]

The car does have a short shifter, yes.

[RedBaron86325]

It is just a trophy. Engines come and engines go. That engine just went out with a bigger bang than most. Things like that are good. It makes you get off your ass and work on your car.

[Fred]

McHenry's what?? I'm sad to see these pics!!! That motor is a 2,8i that we built for the guy, and it's the 2nd time he blew it up! The first time he blew it up because he wanted too high of a compression ratio. We warned him to mix some 100+ octane in it because it would ping on pump gas. He didnt....

Oh well. He's getting a stock B25 now and he's gonna like it.

I just called Hoa at SBI today to talk to him about my engine problems, and he mentioned a guy who blew up a 2.8i because of very high compression. Funny to see his engine here (well, it's not so funny, but ya know what I mean) ;).

I might drop off my car there and leave it for a couple weeks next time I'm in SoCal...we'll see.

[lukasbmw]

Explain this death to the bitch clip mod please.

[golde30]

i think im gonna... too late...