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What led you to the M42 Club?

ention of it on Bimmerforums
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ention of it on other Forum (pls specify)
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earch Engine (pls specify)
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« Reply #60 on: July 18, 2008, 06:37:59 PM »
m42 section on r3v
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« Reply #61 on: July 18, 2008, 06:52:46 PM »
Google + M42 = M42club.com

I'd been wanting a better E30 since i trashed my 325e. So i decided to do about 5 months research on M42's. Wikipedia told me about the profile gasket failing, so i had to make sure that was the only defective with this motor. After reading around this forum i knew this was the best enthusiasts car of the 21st century. I wish BMW never made M20 and only made M42's!
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« Reply #62 on: July 25, 2008, 12:52:50 PM »
i heard about it on r3v. i picked up my 318 last august as my 3rd e30. im never gonna go back to the m20. i love the characteristics of the m42 too much.
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« Reply #63 on: July 27, 2008, 05:49:59 PM »
I had to do my timming chain and was looking for some "encouragement". Wow!!!!! After looking for an hour or so, I ended up on the forum page. Holy crap !!!. Four and a half hours later, I have more info about my car than i thought existed.  You guys are gods. I re-did my timming chain in a day! The links and pics were a god send, the simple, straight forward instruction made it easy to follow, and the confidence you gave me was awsome. I can,t thank you all enough. I am now a PROUD member who can,t wait to start doing all the cool stuff I've read about to My Baby. I've got a million questions ( which I'll look in the forums for answers first!) so please bare with me.
 Again, thanks for your help, and who's ever idea this site was, YOU ROCK !!!
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« Reply #64 on: August 07, 2008, 06:43:02 AM »
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I had to do my timming chain and was looking for some "encouragement". Wow!!!!! After looking for an hour or so, I ended up on the forum page. Holy crap !!!. Four and a half hours later, I have more info about my car than i thought existed.  You guys are gods. I re-did my timming chain in a day! The links and pics were a god send, the simple, straight forward instruction made it easy to follow, and the confidence you gave me was awsome. I can,t thank you all enough. I am now a PROUD member who can,t wait to start doing all the cool stuff I've read about to My Baby. I've got a million questions ( which I'll look in the forums for answers first!) so please bare with me.
 Again, thanks for your help, and who's ever idea this site was, YOU ROCK !!!

Am with you on that Big Red. Similar circumstances led me here, after a search on good 'ol Google for some answers.

My 8v M40 has decided to give up the ghost, and i've been lucky enough to find an 87,000mile M42 with ALL ancillaries to do a conversion, even better that it's out of an E30 already. I have a LOT of research to undergo, and I have no idea what i'm doing (mechanical wise) so it's a rather sharp learning curve. Oh well, am never one to give up easily and as i'm already TOTALLY devoted to my E30 so I thought it a shame to get rid of it.

Here's to another top forum and some happy times.
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« Reply #65 on: September 02, 2008, 01:20:55 PM »
r3v.  Just joined after buying a barn find.  Its my 3rd E30 and finally one worth my hard earned $.  So far I'm enjoying the information here and the helpful attitude held by the members.
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« Reply #66 on: September 15, 2008, 03:37:07 PM »
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« Reply #67 on: September 15, 2008, 05:48:10 PM »
Seen ya mentioned on bmw-driver.net an Irish BMW forum...
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« Reply #68 on: October 20, 2008, 10:05:50 AM »
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« Reply #69 on: March 27, 2010, 11:38:59 AM »
Hi there guys! Was doing alot of research and reading on the E30 when I first got mine, it immediatly struck me as a car I wanted to keep and drive all the time. But it's slightly underpowered (ZA spec 318i has the SOHC M40) and thats when my quest for knowledge and more power began... I wanted to do a 6pot swap untill I heard about the M42 (found here in the E36 318i). And being a 4pot 16valve fan I googled the "M42 engine" and M40 to M42 engine swaps to get more info and... ... M42club!! perfect!
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« Reply #70 on: March 27, 2010, 11:55:27 AM »
Spliffy, can you easily acquire an M42?  I'm not sure how common the motor is in South Africa.  Might be that the M42 head fits right on your M40 block...

You do get some other great cars we didn't, that's for sure.  If there are any 333i's left let me know.  I always thought the Ford Sierra XR8 was a fine idea that we should have had here.
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« Reply #71 on: March 27, 2010, 12:47:56 PM »
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Spliffy, can you easily acquire an M42?  I'm not sure how common the motor is in South Africa.  Might be that the M42 head fits right on your M40 block...

You do get some other great cars we didn't, that's for sure.  If there are any 333i's left let me know.  I always thought the Ford Sierra XR8 was a fine idea that we should have had here.


Good day Dave
Luckily the M42 was in all the E36 318i's (E36 318is came with the 1900cc either M44 or M43) so just have to look for 1 with low mileage or a reconditioned 1. I've read that the head doesn't fit the block 100% although I haven't checked it out for myself yet. The other thing is that the E30 M42 ECU isn't here in SA so I'm researching stand alone management systems(something i still know very little about). But there's lots of info on this site that I read through and it helps alot.
I've been unlucky not to have driven in an XR8 or 333i yet. Saddening I know, and where I live Cape Town there are very few 333i's left, e30clusa.co.za is my home forum and we had a BMW fest/track day recently and there wasn't 1 333i. Another favourite is the 2.7litre 325is with the mtech2 kit, love that car! Sorry 'bout this long post!
Looking forward to my next visit!
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« Reply #72 on: March 27, 2010, 01:47:39 PM »
i w as searchin M42 turbo kits and found a thread on here about someone sellin it but i didnt join quite yet
then i was searchin info on the mark D chips and saw someone on here asking about them so i joined to let him know that they are amazing chips! lol
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« Reply #73 on: November 25, 2010, 10:46:54 AM »
Searching info on that new bmw i just got and saw this lol n i dont no poop about bmws
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« Reply #74 on: November 25, 2010, 11:19:51 AM »
LongTallSally told me about it when I bought my 318. Bastard. :p
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