Hello everyone, i am Jay from The Netherlands. I've always searched this site for information and I thought that it was
time to register on this forum.
My car is/was a 316i Type 2 with an M10 engine.
Times have changed and i wanted just a little bit more power.
Luckily my buddy had an M42 that was planned for rebuild, but he never had the time for it. So it became my
engine.
This is how it arrived.
New chain, tensioners, sprockets, water pump ect. And boxes full of parts it was crazy sorting everything out.
Started with the head. The engine had a timing issue, there were about 10 valves that were bent.
Brand new ones have been installed and I resurfaced the valve guides.
Installed the oil pan and cleaned the engine.
Thanks to this forum I removed the heater plate.
It is a really hard work to clean this years of dust and oil had to be removed.
Time to remove the old M10. Runs great, was abused many times on the Nurburgring and never broke down.
My battery ventilation is gone now.
Cleaning again
Installed a BMW 2002 Flywheel with a modified slave cylinder, because I don't have a 323 Euro TOB and
I do have a welding machine. The Flywheel has a new M50 ring gear so it would work with my M50 starter.
This is how it currently sits in the garage. I installed a big M50 radiator and a oil vapour separator.
After 10 attempts to get the coils in the right order the M42 fired for the first time and guess what?
It runs like crap. But that's why I registered.
