morris_marlin
Insurance Policy
This is my spare 90K miles insurance policy engine I bought for £125 from a bloke in Barry. He'd planned on building it for an E34 then found a cheap 4.4 M62 V8 so surprisingly enough went that route instead.
It's an M52B25 Single VANOS so the block is a proper match for my M50 head (but Ali instead of Iron). In the unfortunate event my home brew block goes south this will be waiting in the wings.
I bought the engine home whole in the boot of my 330 Touring which was a bit of a squeeze and then stripped it down on the weekend. Some water had got into one of the bores so it may not be ideal but the head is great so worst case I'll have a spare good head.
The engine was cheap because most of the plastic bits such as the manifold and valve cover were a little melted where the previous previous owner had tried to drain the car's fuel tank by pulling out one of the injectors and then running the engine. Unsurprisingly there was a small fire. I don't need any of the plastic parts so they all went straight in the skip.
Insurance Policy
This is my spare 90K miles insurance policy engine I bought for £125 from a bloke in Barry. He'd planned on building it for an E34 then found a cheap 4.4 M62 V8 so surprisingly enough went that route instead.
It's an M52B25 Single VANOS so the block is a proper match for my M50 head (but Ali instead of Iron). In the unfortunate event my home brew block goes south this will be waiting in the wings.
I bought the engine home whole in the boot of my 330 Touring which was a bit of a squeeze and then stripped it down on the weekend. Some water had got into one of the bores so it may not be ideal but the head is great so worst case I'll have a spare good head.
The engine was cheap because most of the plastic bits such as the manifold and valve cover were a little melted where the previous previous owner had tried to drain the car's fuel tank by pulling out one of the injectors and then running the engine. Unsurprisingly there was a small fire. I don't need any of the plastic parts so they all went straight in the skip.