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With the OEM mounts, when you drive hard lets say on a mountain pass, the gearbox move left and right while in the corner. This means...

What a fantastically detailed project, thank you for sharing!

Chapter Twelve - Engine and Gearbox Back In After giving the engine bay a good cleanup, the engine was dropped in with the gearbox...

Chapter Eleven - Engine Timing and Getting Final Items Wrapped Up The plan was to get everything close to lined up and finalise in the...

Bravo! Big End Bearing clearance is 0,030 to 0,070 typically so you are mid point which is excellent. Looks like a solid build!

Chapter Ten - Assembly Clocking rings and the separator for the oil ring. Unpack the wrapped block Unwrap the cleaned crank I...

Chapter Nine - Measuring Things Main bearings measuring right in between tolerances The big end measured fine as well...

Chapter Eight -The Cleanup and Cylinder Hone Start cleaning the crankshaft and oil squirters Once the varnish is removed, the crank...

I ended up doing CAMs too, it's going to need a tune to get the benefits though

Chapter Six - Rings, Bearings, Oil Pump etc. Since the rings were the source of trouble since new, I was determined not to use the OE...

Chapter Five - The Head I see some suggestions, so I will get to it, the head was gas-flowed with CAMS, all done by Vanderlinder...

A little update......not BMW related. Not much happening with the Beast lately—it’s just going along nicely. Life has been so crazy...

Chapter Four - The 5th Gear Lean This car came equipped with the five-speed manual ZF gearbox; at some point in my ownership of over 20...

Nice write up. You might wish to reconsider porting the head unless you are changing cams as well as injectors. The heads are typically...

Chapter Four - The Engine Teardown Vanos Removed The dual mass flywheel wasn't in bad condition but LUK clutch and flywheel...