M70/M73 hydraulic lifters in M20 to eliminate need for valve adjustments

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If you're going to actually enjoy the car with those parts on, then its not dumb and unreasonable. If you plan to sell the car, then yes it's dumb and unreasonable - these cars (especially the...

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Makes sense. I read the M7x designs were based on the M20....

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Not planning to do this on my M20 (unless its verified this actually works) but I’m curious: has anyone on here ever attempted to install M70/73 hydraulic lifters on an M20 engine to eliminate the need...

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The price growth for these will probably start stagnating once E46 M3 gets more attention as a classic, values for them start skyrocketing, and people start romanticizing them as “the last good M3”...

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Brought an Alpineweiss-II 325ix with 78k miles from a local dealership. Will probably make a more extensive post on this in the Members Ride section once I get some time


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Update: I ended up finding a car so no longer looking. Will update title.

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Looks to me like there was some residue (the dark gray blotches in the 1st and last pic) on the “horrible” side that reacted with the nickel plating solution when you ran electricity through the solution....

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Can vouch for these sunshades, had one of these sunshades over my crack-free dash which I had installed in the car around 2020. The car sat outside in a parking lot all throughout the year. I only used...

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I doubt there’s anyone out there that can rebuild these DMEs. I’ve opened up DMEs for B25’s and B27’s (just out of curiosity to see the circuitry inside) and there are parts in there that are...

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I’m not that extreme. I don’t plan on driving this new car much more than around 2000-3000 miles a year (
I work remotely plus these things are getting too old to daily). Plus it won’t go...

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Goddamnit man, if this thing was auto I would have jumped on it (I’m not good at working the clutch on a manual, but most of the manual BMWs I’ve driven were 4 cylinders so maybe the lack of torque...