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Title: All Tiied up
Post by: All Tiied up on July 23, 2007, 03:02:50 PM

Greetings from the UK :)

My mission is to improve my ride, a LHD 1972 BMW 2002 automatic saloon, and that will be with a conversion to an M42 engine and manual box.

The 2002 weighs in at only 990 Kg (against 1125 Kg) and I think that the acceleration will be 'quite acceptable' (:phee hee!!!) and the MPG will return quite good figures too.

We'll see :)

Any thoughts / advice before I start would be greatfully recieved!!

Safe driving

Title: All Tiied up
Post by: ose30 on July 23, 2007, 03:21:38 PM

Sounds very nice project. I suppose you could easily take few extra Bavarian horse from that M42 engine though. Should be as fast as original 2002 Turbo.

Title: All Tiied up
Post by: asubimmer on July 23, 2007, 05:57:45 PM

welcome to the site!

Title: All Tiied up
Post by: gearheadE30 on July 27, 2007, 08:39:00 PM

Welcome! Sounds like an amazing project.

Title: All Tiied up
Post by: FL318is on July 27, 2007, 10:12:19 PM

WELCOME Mate!  Pics please.  Cheers!

Title: All Tiied up
Post by: All Tiied up on July 28, 2007, 02:58:13 AM

I am in the process today of putting down a deposit on a 318 is and hopefully pick it up next week....pictures to follow.. :)