PJH's 1990 BMW E30 318is [PIC HEAVY]

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Part 5: building the head

The entire head has been cleaned, tested and prepped for rebuilding. Here too some steps are crucial and should be done with great care. The head is a very complicated piece, but wonderful to look at.
The head itself:


Getting good compression values depends not only on the piston rings, but also on the valves. These need to sit perfectly into their seats. The seats are cleaned and adjusted to the valves, so that leakages should not take place.




Further placement of the 16 new valves:

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Part 6: finishing the engine

Most of these pictures do not need further explaining. We build the engine until it is ready to put it back.

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Before and after, big difference.




Setting the timing perfectly right, so we get the full potential of the engine:

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Once the chain is in place, we seal the engine.




New thermostat and waterpump

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Finished product:

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Back in place:






Back on the road

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Sorry for the long post ;)

[red2.4srt]

Absolutely beautiful.

Nicely done! Thank you for the attention to detail, this is a great reference to anyone with an M42 looking to rebuild!

[ak-]

Was a joy to go through.

Future plans?

[gespinal0301]

I plan on doing this in like 2 or 3 years once I graduate as a gift to myself and to the car since it'll probably be at 230k or 240k. I should also have the money by then which is the biggest factor haha

[MouseRat]

Wow. I can only dream of doing this to my M42

[PJH]

Future plans?

- Fix the clunk in the rear suspension (might be the exhaust that is banging against something)
- New exhaust
- Go to the Nurburgring
- Go to Bilsterberg
- Go to Weeze
- Go to Mas du Clos
- Roadtrip through the alps
- Roadtrip to scotland
- Celebrate bankruptcy :D

[getouth]

Not sure what is more awesome the work or the photos..........well executed.