'73 racing '02 - 05/02/19 update

it goes without saying..... videos please!!

Lovely evening in the 'shire tonight so made a little film of my blat:
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Looking awesome! I have an old project heading for it's first MoT in over a decade today. Hoping it will clear the way for my racing Scimitar build.

Very inspirational thread, love it.

I thought I'd give myself some things to do over winter so have done the man-maths on a motor swap to an M44 for the M10 that's currently in it: by breaking apart my engine and selling the goodies I can get to 200hp for no expenditure! To the uninitiated the M10 gets expensive to extract above 150hp as cams are alot of wonga and the Kugelfischer pump is redonk expensive to have tuned. The end goal for the engine swap is to use a GKD supercharger kit but it will run n/a initially with a chip to get around 160hp.

This morning's antics:



Also over winter I also want to sort the wheel situation as banded steels (the wrong way i.e. loads of positive offset) was never meant to be a permanent solution. As such I'd appreciated your thoughts on the following selection if you have time:

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4


NExt update will be following a rolling road session on 17th October so I have a good benchmark on which to improve. I think it's around 140hp, which is pretty lame considering it's a 2.2, limited by the fuelling as the Kugelfischer is completely stock.

Just the rims i like op3 best

HOW DID I MISS THIS!!!!!!

Well done buddy, huge progress getting it going, and LOVE that now it is working, you have taken the engine out hahaha

The M44 is a great engine, I had a 318is with the M42 and it loved to rev. The only issue seemed to be the extraordinarily heavy flywheel?

Keep on the updates

Seems like option 3 is the clear favourite on both this and the 02forum

As a result of selling most of the engine and ancillaries I have removed it from the car so it can be shipped. The exhaust manifold has gone to Australia and the engine & throttle bodies are going to the south of France(!)

The one-piece front clip really comes into its own when there are jobs like this to do, plus the fact that the engine and box can be dropped whilst still attached to the subframe after undoing fewer than 10 bolts:



With the odds and sods pulled off it this is the size of the package that's going across the channel to its new home:



With the new-found readies in my bank I wasted no time in going to EBay and picking myself up an Eaton M45 from a Mini Cooper S:



Also scored a pair of as-new helmets for me and Mrs Knobstar - figured if she's brave/stupid/kind enough to join me all the way down to Provence in spring then her noggin should be equally protected and conversation will actually be possible without getting hoarse(!) Very lucky that the sizes the chap had were right for us, respectively.


Next jobs are getting the M44 engine positioned correctly in the subframe and then moving on to getting engine mounts made. Before removing the M10 from the subframe I spent a while taking measurements using several datums such that I don't end up with a misfit.

After an unusual cock-up by BMW Classic Parts I finally received the last gasket I needed to put the M42 sump onto the M44. All went together without a snag:


I have been pondering gearbox / final drive options having only recently discovered that the Getrag 220 has a 1:1 5th gear - great for the track put pants for long trips with the current 4.4:1 final drive e.g. Provence. Here it is next to the 240:


Regardless of which tranny/final drive combo I chose I'm definitely getting rid of the massive dual-mass flywheel, which is one of the next things on the list of jobs. According to those who've weighed one it's around 11 or 12 kilos.


Quite tempted by this little number from Australia as it's the lightest thing I can find on the interwebs and leaves me free to chose from getrag 220,240 or 260. It seems a better option than a (heavier) aluminium flywheel with a steel inlay: racehead.com.au/products-page/engine-components/bmw-light-flywheel-m50-m52-m42-m44/

Happy New Year to you all when it comes:D

New flywheel's here and fantastically light - nearly 9 kilos lighter than the original!