Restoration of the #5 car.
History:
Car started out as a 1967 1600 that Jeff bought in 1987 as a street car with a blown engine. Converted to B-sedan spec., the car raced in VARA throughout the 90's. Since then it's been tucked away for the last several years as focus has shifted to some other race cars. Last week the covers have been pulled back and a fresh engine is in the works. I'll be posting as the car goes back together and starts racing again.
Here's some shots how it was in the early 90's.
Sweet shot at Willow springs on poll back in the day.
Here's how it stood early this week. A little dusty, but lots of potential.
Some of the goodies for the engine build.
BMW Factory race-prepped head otherwise known as the "Alpina" head. Heads came from a dealer closeout long long time ago are actually the same dealer whom we got the alpina flare molds off of (the original flares now reside on a car in the BMW museum). These are kind of unobtanium.
Note the Hemi'd chambers. These will be smoothed, polished, and checked to ensure the same cc's across the 4 chambers.
The larger exhaust ports will necessitate a header with larger diameter holes at the flange.
Intake side port close up.
I'm merely documenting the 're'build and am hopefully be doing some basic wrenching.
History:
Car started out as a 1967 1600 that Jeff bought in 1987 as a street car with a blown engine. Converted to B-sedan spec., the car raced in VARA throughout the 90's. Since then it's been tucked away for the last several years as focus has shifted to some other race cars. Last week the covers have been pulled back and a fresh engine is in the works. I'll be posting as the car goes back together and starts racing again.
Here's some shots how it was in the early 90's.
Sweet shot at Willow springs on poll back in the day.
Here's how it stood early this week. A little dusty, but lots of potential.
Some of the goodies for the engine build.
BMW Factory race-prepped head otherwise known as the "Alpina" head. Heads came from a dealer closeout long long time ago are actually the same dealer whom we got the alpina flare molds off of (the original flares now reside on a car in the BMW museum). These are kind of unobtanium.
Note the Hemi'd chambers. These will be smoothed, polished, and checked to ensure the same cc's across the 4 chambers.
The larger exhaust ports will necessitate a header with larger diameter holes at the flange.
Intake side port close up.
I'm merely documenting the 're'build and am hopefully be doing some basic wrenching.
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