Milsom's BMW E46 V8 Project

This is a friends project that i've been helping out on to transplant the 4.4 litre M62 V8 from a BMW 540i into an E46 Coupe body,

Donor car in standard guise

More than two angry horses

Here is a video Ollie took before any work commenced, the engine has manifolds installed but everything else from the first flange back on each side had been removed so it sounded more like an aircraft than a car,

To get a better picture of what exactly we are trying to free we bit the bullet of no more revving at 200db and started to strip the front down,

While lifting and moving equipment is sorted out for removing the engine and gearbox we decided to crack on with removing the loom. The intention is to salvage all engine running electronics from this car and any required interface between the engine and chassis modules. Without the wiring diagrams yet and with this in mind we feel the best option is to remove the entire loom intact, labelling every connector as we go so that we can the dissect the loom out of the car and re-loom all the stuff that we are going to need. As we are intending to swap over all security related aspects including the central locking system it further substantiates that removing the entire body loom is a worthwhile exercise, as we can keep all the ECU / Chassis module key coding etc etc

More to come on this


Taa

Pete

Dual Carb Refurb

Was tasked a while back with refurbing a set of carbs for a friends project of swapping a twin cylinder motorbike engine (Kawasaki EX500) into his road legal quad chassis,

They were in a bit of a state to start with...

First off was to get them separated, the main screws that fastened them together were corroded quite bad and the cross heads powdered away after a few attempts (with the correct size bit!)

As I was no longer worried about salvaging the hardware drilling commenced, then wound them out with a stud extractor.

 

Each carb could now be examined, one was ok, the other had a crack in the vacuum chamber cap and damage to the main casting which would cause an air leak, so this had to be sorted.

A full strip of each then commenced, everything thoroughly solvent cleaned and terrorised with the air line

All the metalwork on the carbs had started to go so gave it some attention, full wire brush and bench grinder wire wheeled to get all the old corrosion off, then primed and painted fresh silver

The castings where then beasted in the sink, in plastic tubs with chemicals, and terrorised with the hose until the desired result was achieved

You can just see on the right hand carb the chemical metal repair to the casting, ugly but it works, the vacuum cap was sorted with epoxy.

Then finally all reassembled, all knackered hardware was replaced with black socket head cap screws, including those drilled out at the beginning, and the screws for the enrichment linkage, shame I didn't get any other pics of them when they were done,

Taa

Pete