A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!

[alex 66]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

nice looking rims graham, lets hope your home brew beast of an engine holds together this year scares the pants of mr birley when all he see's is your blue beemer in his mirrors

[tom burgess]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

yeah i used to love seeing this blue thing tear past everything but then it would usually end in retirement if it holds together this year it could be a force to be reckoned with

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

nice looking rims graham, lets hope your home brew beast of an engine holds together this year scares the pants of mr birley when all he see's is your blue beemer in his mirrors

i hope so alex, despite fitting a hotter exhaust cam ( actually a group N inlet!!) and the raised compression and bigger bore exhaust which will be 0.5 inch bigger at 3.5 inch, i doubt i will have as much power as i did last year as im sure the 4x4 cossy exhaust manifold i'm now going to use will hurt power, i could be as much as 50bhp down judging by the fact few cossys seem to exeede 400 bhp on that manifold, but as tom said i had reliability issues last year, far too many races i started with near 500bhp and finished either with none or only 150bhp, either way i'm looking to better my best ever result against a class field which was first race last year when blew all away my class B competition and all but two of the class A cars way when i got on the bottom step of the podium.

[Dave]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

Good to see you out in the shed again Graham,
And good luck

[Retromotorsport]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

Glad to see you have stopped playing with your new toy and got on with the old one .... wonder which one costs more ???

Good luck with the prepping Graham and see you in the paddock

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

cheers chaps in the words of arnie i'll be back.....

theres a cheeky young upstart with a flashy looking v6 escort that needs a few on track lessons

oh i do love it when the class A cars cant keep up

women was marginally cheaper in £££££
but even more expensive in heart ache

[Retromotorsport]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

theres a cheeky young upstart with a flashy looking v6 escort that needs a few on track lessons

oh i do love it when the class A cars cant keep up

Err David here, my computers offline still so I've hyjacked Garys. Bring it on class 'B' boy, I'll see you later in the season

Oh and good luck with your car, let us know if you need any help
(especially as you have to come and help get mine running!)

David (not Gary)

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

got a bit of time on my car today, i lapped the valves in, then stood back and admired just how good the the m3 head is, lovely straight inlet ports with a nice steep approach and huge exhaust ports, which probably accounts for why my engine makes excellent power on very little boost, so heres a couple of head pics

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

most of you wont know, but i have a large double garage, unfortunatly i have so much in it in the way of tools and machinery, that it now only holds one car, sound familiar?

trouble is that one car it holds isnt mine but gregs alfa i'm rebuilding, the beemer lives outside , it wont once my builder finishes the big extension that i'm adding to the garage.

anyway it was so nice this afternoon i thought it would be rude not to go and work on it in the sun,

i pondered what to do with the front wings which wont cover the 17x9 wheels, i thought of fitting M3 wings, but they are expensive and still might not cover the wheels anyway, fibreglass replicas are a lot cheaper, but still might not fit, and dont save much weight anyway, and came up with allsorts of clever ideas on making box arches but then settled on the cheap easy option, a simple steel extension on the existing wings,

after trimming a bit off the arches i welded on some steel strips, and zinc primed them, the extensions are wider than they need be, because i might convert the front wheels to the same wider spec of the rears by changing the outer rim sections.

its not the prettest welding, the welder was having a bad day, not helped by it being a bit windy and rather blowing the gas away which i was getting low on anyway, but as its non structual will do fine

[Retromotorsport]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

Graham... what about Gp2 Zakspeed arches ?????
Cheap and replacable

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

maybe, but not as cheap as free, and i've kind of got to the stage where anysort of price is too dear!!!!!!

on balence i prefer steel anyway, it doesnt just shatter it it gets hit and can usually be hammered back into some sort of usable shape

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

a little more progress,

i've installed the valves, rechecked the valve clearances, and fitted the head using the ferriday gasket, the fire rings are one big single piece of copper, inset into an aluminium gasket that comes precoated with a silicon type sealant.

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

finally for today i fitted the cam carrier which is no 2 min job, having several o rings between it and the head and is held down almost 40 bolts!

[carpmart]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

Thats one pretty engine your building there!

When do you need this finished by for the series you are racing in?

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

need it finisjhed 1st week in april, the car races in the dunlop track and race championship (dtrc)

which does brands, snet, silverstone, castle coombe and lydden.

where your also find some other TS members in the shape of alex ribbins, andy pipe and hopefully david white