Stuck Injector = M42 Rebuild

[delatlanta1281]

Motor



Engine

Same30
fag.

[KenC]

updates?

I'm waiting on some parts to come. Mostly little nuts and bolts. The exhaust side motormount heatshield had to be shipped from Germany, so it's slowing up the order a bit. Hopefully it comes today so I can get everything bolted up and drop her in.

[KenC]

Updates! Ready to drop in!!!

So I put the finishing touches on the engine today, and it's ready to drop in. I'll be borrowing a cherry-picker tomorrow hopefully, and then a one-day break-in drive on Saturday :).

We put the new rear main on and were able to fill it with oil last night.


Heatshield that had to be shipped from the motherland & new O-ring for the oil filter housing:


Valve cover and COP on:


Not sure how this got upside down, but when I deleted the "mess under the intake" a few months ago, there was a light kink in the vacuum line from the ICV to the intake boot, so I went to Home Depot and found a brass fitting that worked for an elbow:


Ain't she purdy?
I put some 1500deg black paint on the headers, so hopefully they stay black for a while.




The only paper gasket on the whole thing poking its head out (the RTV I used is some nasty s&%*... I got a little bit on one of my tools, and I had a hell of a time trying to get it off):

[iwantspeed]

i like this shot

nice work
she looks real clean :pimp:

[TooTall90]

It's, it's.....beautiful. Great work! :pimp:

i wish my 4pot looked and ran as good as yours.

[THATDONFC]

That looks awesome! I hope to do this with my m42 as well. :)

[MR 325]

So clean!!

[diegom6]

Nice detail for the oil cap!:p

I like your job in this lil beast:)

[KenC]

Productive day:

The engine finally came off of the stand and on to the hoist.

I got the 13lb 323 flywheel all mounted up. Breaker bar in the right hand and torque wrench in the left... took a bit of skill to get them to 90lb/ft each.


Got the tranny mounted up:



I didnt really take a lot of pictures during the two hour struggle to get the engine in with the transmission on. Pretty much everything under the hood is hooked up and ready to go. I have the full M3 harness covers to go on too.

[KenC]

It felt so good to drop off the engine stand and hoist that I had been borrowing.

Saturday = break-in day :)

[Hick]

Whats with your AFM? The plug is different than the M42s ive come across

[KenC]

Whats with your AFM? The plug is different than the M42s ive come across

What do they normally look like?

According to records, the AFM was replaced at the dealer in '07 by the previous owner (~$700).

[Hick]

Most have a round plug... just curious if there was an AFM swap i did not know of

[KenC]

If you look in my pic, you can see the round plug in there. Maybe they just updated the plug into the AFM... who knows.

[Hick]

If you look in my pic, you can see the round plug in there. Maybe they just updated the plug into the AFM... who knows.

They all have that too. Its kinda odd, i think [but dont quote me] that there was an early recall on these cars where they placed a jumper between the AFM and the old plug. Theres an inline resistor built into the jumper.