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

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

just a quicky, only a little progress this morning as i start work soon, i put lifters and cams in, cams caused a bit of head scratching as it was early in the day and i'm using two inlet cams! which means std marks etc dont line up, got there though.

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

yesterdays progress,

drilled and tapped the timing chain tensioner body to take an adjustable stop, the idea being teh chain is still tensioned hydralically as std, but the tension cannot back off on over run or when the engines left standing.

pic shows first yb ex manifold adapter plate on engine and modified water rail

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

second adapter plate, i just hope i have a gas tight seal between them, theres no gasket just some ultra high temp silicon as used on boilers and lots of bolts!

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

yb manifold now fitted, and lastly turbo sitting on the manifold

[Dave]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

I am watching your progress, but don't really know what's going on.
I have entered your pic in the "Weld of the week" thread.

[tom burgess]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

well done graham is it going to be ready for the first round?

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

hope so, that all depends on the engine holding together on the dyno and me having enough £££ left to actually race

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

progress as slowed somewhat, the neighbours cars keep breaking down!

spent most of the day faffing with the engines valve clearances, i always set them a bit big when i build the head up on the bench as they always close up when you torque the head down to the block, but this time they had closed up much more than normal so they were all too tight, the only reason i can think is that the ferriday head gasket doesnt compress anything like as much as std ones, so the head bolts compress the head more than usual, anyway after several hours with a load of shims, feeler gauges and a micrometer the clearances are now finally right, well they will be until the thing is dyno'd then will probably want doing again

couldnt be bothered with pics of tappet shims so i toook a pic of one of the front wings instead, they have now had a quick lick of filler. primer and paint and look quite tidy, not perfect, but its a race car it only needs to look tidy, besides i've neither the time, money or patients to do a perfect job.

[andypipe]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

Looks good enough to me

[Dave]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

Turned out better than mine do.

[Retromotorsport]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

Look better than i first thought it would ...

Tips hat to you

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

i really cant be bothered with bodywork, but back in my dim distant past i worked in a body shop for a couple of years, the real problem i have these days is i dont use a paint gun enough and have to re-learn every time i use one and i dont have the patients anymore to do a good prep job, and then its usually using different equipment and paint type each time

[tom burgess]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

coming along now graham.well done

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

not much progress today got to go to work soon,

i bolted the n/s engine mount on after reinforcing it as it cracked several times last year, if i had realised i was in welding competition i would of taken a pic of it before painting it

and refitted the oil lines that feed the piston cooling jets

[Graham]

Re: worlds most powerfull bmw 316?

finally after modifying some of the pressure take offs for the wastegate, map sensor etc, i bolted the throttle bodies and plenum back on