Eric's Mtech2 Vert

[IRON-E]

Subscribed Eric, keep up the hard work budd. :D

[reelizmpro]

Pretty common to leak from the head gasket oil return passages, oil filter housing, etc. Good job on the refresh.

[Cabriolet]

its leaking oil from the head gasket so thats why the refresh

[rede30]

a refreshed engine is always nice but why not just fix the leaks? that motor is so young. Clean car though.

[Cabriolet]

Today was mostly a prep day. I need to get the engine out of the car and get all the fluids drained. There are so many wires and hoses it takes a ton of time to get them apart. My dad busted the vacuum line that goes to the break booster because it is so brittle. That and we can’t get the fan clutch off the water pump. Kinda SOL on keeping the water pump from spinning as we break it loose.
Here are the pics from the day.

Todd loaned me his engine hoist and a bunch of parts I am missing for the swap.


Draining the coolant.

My dad won this fender protector back in high school.

And he took the oil pan down to the wash tank at work last night and it came out very clean.


Slowly getting stuff apart

Took out the exhaust and drive shaft


Pushed her into the garage for the night. Sucks that there is only 115k on the OD and the car leaks so much.



Good night baby, see you tomorrow.

[iwantspeed]

nice work

[bmwstephen]

eric. might i recommend the OEM head gasket? its costly but its more full proof. In my case, I used the other VR gaskets such as the manifold ones no problem

[Cabriolet]

Another stressful day. Forgot to order the piston bearings... F.me... the engine is 100% torn apart now, realized that it had been overheated and that the varnishing was just the surface. All the rockers are slightly pitted. So we are gonna pull the plug on this m20 and use the one that is in my car. Which means a lot of work tomorrow and Christmas day. Borrowing engine hoist from a form member and getting the rest of the misc parts for the swap from him also.
Mike started painting the valve cover, ill post pics of that special paint job after it's done.
i picked up a flywheel today for $90 and had it refinished for $25.
Meanwhile another box of parts showed up.

[E30AWDAZ]

Looks great. Those cleaned pistons look brand new!

[mr.vang]

i was expecting to see a car...i though my leak was bad..lol

[N2MYE30]

Ive got my popcorn out. So whats in store for this car?

[freeride53]

Good luck!

[Cabriolet]

You folks doing the engine just grew up around cars , tech schools or just trying it out?

just grew up around cars, and the Bently's books helps alot

and the extrude honed intake manifold is way outa my budget atm :(

[bmwstephen]

very nice eric. subscribed.

perhaps this is a good time to purchase the extrude honed intake manifold too

[CabrioPunk]

You folks doing the engine just grew up around cars , tech schools or just trying it out?