BMW 2002 - The Tii (ish)

Great Car- Love This. Looks much better than my ratty 2002

Wow!

Stunning!

That is all..

Bookmarked.

Thanks, i really like yours, the back story is great too! So far mine doesnt have much of a one!








Thanks guys, appreciate the positivity on this forum so far!


Haha thankyou and that looks like Elliotts   at least he's got the pristine concourse turbo as his original one. I'm going for a halfway house between the two for mine and i'm living off bread and butter to achieve that   nevermind a second one, maybe someday!

It is indeed Elliott's

I'm looking forward to seeing yours progress, it's looking super clean so far!

Next up has been getting the gearbox ready for its rebuild, this has been a long road but its ready to go back together now, hopefully this will happen in the coming weeks! As I’ve mentioned before, my dream 2002 in my head has always had a dogleg 5 speed so hopefully this one will work out for me!

I’ve basically ended up cleaning everything as much as I can, from the state it was in internally it’s resulted in a complete u-turn. I’ve swapped all the old gears out for ‘as new’ condition ones as well as all new baulk rings. You can see from the pics below these were all well over due. This box will end up as nearly new condition, other than 5th gear which has a little pitting but there are no input shafts/5th gears available anywhere for them.

Old and new:





Dead baulk ring:



All done:


Scrap gears and rings:


Main case:


From the clutch end:



All together:





Reinforced release bearing lever all Ed China’d:





These also got the treatment and new seals fitted.

The headwork has been going well and its nearly finished. First off it was soda blasted and guides removed:







Valves cleaned up:









The seat surface on the valves will be redone when the 3 angle seats are ground.

Then the port modifications took place:









You can see in the picture below the port before/ after and the way the guide has been changed:



The guides are also the later style with the smaller stem seals. The advantage of these is that when running dual valve springs theres no risk of the inner spring catching. My current cam choice doesn’t need dual valve springs but its good to know for later down the line. I’ll be running Schrick single springs for now.

I needed to work out the piston intruder volume so the combustion chambers could be done:



Further to this the head should be finished this week and I can get it built back up. I'm beyond excited for this part. I’ve wanted a head done by the guy who owns the competition engine builders where I’ve assisted for 14 years (half my life!) for nearly all of those 14 years so I’m really chuffed its finally happening.

The other great development, which I’ve mentioned above, is that the Jenvey Throttle bodies have arrived. I’ve also wanted a set of these for as long as I can remember too!

Bare bodies with trumpets and manifold:



Parts:



Alloy fuel rail:



Cut down and chamfered:





Fitted:



Underslung linkage installed:





Awesomely neat FPR:





And that’s about it for now, I’ve got more bits on the way or at least ordered so can crack on, still loads to do but I’m confident for a spring start!

Thanks for reading,

Scott.

Living on baked beans and pot noodles is clearly paying off!
Nice work.
James

Thanks James, it's paying off for the car but not my waistline!


Thanks Pete, not a silly question at all. These engines had hard seats from factory so are fine with unleaded fuel. The place i help out at does plenty of unleaded seat conversions though!

The 3 angle machining work still needs to be done to the seats, ill post more pics when its done.

This build is superb. At this rate it should be a right stormer of a car!