Last Friday, I took a trip down to Steve Haygood's place in Thomaston, GA to take a look at something he'd offered up to the board: an M30B35 out of a late E24, with 12X,000 miles on it, and the wiring harness, sensors, injectors, AFM, and ECU included. The asking price wasn't cheap, but the few folks I conferred with thought the price was reasonable.
Shortly after I arrived at his house, Steve returned and took me to his mini-junkyard and quonset-hut where the engine was residing. The E24 the engine had come out of was a Canadian car, and it showed: the left front fender had a rust hole you could pass a brick through sideways. When I saw the engine, I thought "Ugh... this ain't good..." If Y'all remember the pics of Duke's car when he got it from the German wrecking yard, this engine looked that bad and then some. I figured I'd already driven 110 miles to take a look and Steve's a nice guy, so I'll go through the motions and eyeball the valvetrain, timing chain, and plugs.
When I got the valve cover off, the inside was nearly spotless, with a nice, even amber tint and no gunk attached to the underside of the valve cover. I removed the wire clip on the rocker shaft at the #1 intake position and moved the rocker over to look at the valve tip -- it was almost perfectly flat, with a small (but flat) wear area about 1/2 diameter wide. The timing chain's teeth still had square ends. The spark plugs were of unknown age, but were not new, so I could see that they were evenly matched in color, with a slight but normal-looking buildup on them.
Steve agreed to replace some missing/damaged pieces and throw in the blade-style E24 fusebox and its wiring harness, so...
Now I gotta figure out to clean this fugly ducking up!
It's what's on the inside that counts, right?
[QUOTE="Shawn D."]Last Friday, I took a trip down to Steve Haygood's place in Thomaston, GA to take a look at something he'd offered up to the board: an M30B35 out of a late E24, with 12X,000 miles on it, and the wiring harness, sensors, injectors, AFM, and ECU included. The asking price wasn't cheap, but the few folks I conferred with thought the price was reasonable.
Shortly after I arrived at his house, Steve returned and took me to his mini-junkyard and quonset-hut where the engine was residing. The E24 the engine had come out of was a Canadian car, and it showed: the left front fender had a rust hole you could pass a brick through sideways. When I saw the engine, I thought "Ugh... this ain't good..." If Y'all remember the pics of Duke's car when he got it from the German wrecking yard, this engine looked that bad and then some. I figured I'd already driven 110 miles to take a look and Steve's a nice guy, so I'll go through the motions and eyeball the valvetrain, timing chain, and plugs.
When I got the valve cover off, the inside was nearly spotless, with a nice, even amber tint and no gunk attached to the underside of the valve cover. I removed the wire clip on the rocker shaft at the #1 intake position and moved the rocker over to look at the valve tip -- it was almost perfectly flat, with a small (but flat) wear area about 1/2 diameter wide. The timing chain's teeth still had square ends. The spark plugs were of unknown age, but were not new, so I could see that they were evenly matched in color, with a slight but normal-looking buildup on them.
Steve agreed to replace some missing/damaged pieces and throw in the blade-style E24 fusebox and its wiring harness, so...
Now I gotta figure out to clean this fugly ducking up! [/QUOTE]
Figure that the engine is worth $800-1000 without the correct wiring harness, and that the new one I bought cost $550.00 a couple of years ago; you probably did alright.
I've just about decided to make a connector to go between the B35 wiring harness and the e28 power plug under the fuse box as the best method to get fire to the new engine.
Shortly after I arrived at his house, Steve returned and took me to his mini-junkyard and quonset-hut where the engine was residing. The E24 the engine had come out of was a Canadian car, and it showed: the left front fender had a rust hole you could pass a brick through sideways. When I saw the engine, I thought "Ugh... this ain't good..." If Y'all remember the pics of Duke's car when he got it from the German wrecking yard, this engine looked that bad and then some. I figured I'd already driven 110 miles to take a look and Steve's a nice guy, so I'll go through the motions and eyeball the valvetrain, timing chain, and plugs.
When I got the valve cover off, the inside was nearly spotless, with a nice, even amber tint and no gunk attached to the underside of the valve cover. I removed the wire clip on the rocker shaft at the #1 intake position and moved the rocker over to look at the valve tip -- it was almost perfectly flat, with a small (but flat) wear area about 1/2 diameter wide. The timing chain's teeth still had square ends. The spark plugs were of unknown age, but were not new, so I could see that they were evenly matched in color, with a slight but normal-looking buildup on them.
Steve agreed to replace some missing/damaged pieces and throw in the blade-style E24 fusebox and its wiring harness, so...
Now I gotta figure out to clean this fugly ducking up! [/QUOTE]
Figure that the engine is worth $800-1000 without the correct wiring harness, and that the new one I bought cost $550.00 a couple of years ago; you probably did alright.
I've just about decided to make a connector to go between the B35 wiring harness and the e28 power plug under the fuse box as the best method to get fire to the new engine.
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the Tanned One
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Now the "rust" factor on the bodys is a different story ! LOL!!! Randy/Fla. 
Sounds like a big project lays ahead! That is one thing about Northern cars... the aluminium parts get corroded! Shouldn't take much to clean things up though.
Be nice if I had an excuse to pull the motor on my car--- so there was a reason to detail everything! Only thing I've done is repaint the airbox and the valve cover, besides the annual pressure wash.
Be nice if I had an excuse to pull the motor on my car--- so there was a reason to detail everything! Only thing I've done is repaint the airbox and the valve cover, besides the annual pressure wash.
[QUOTE="DukeM535Ti"]You got that right....................remember that NASTY engine that was in my M535i was a 1991 BMW replacement engine and the condition inside the valve cover was as you describe your new baby. Looks can be deceiving..........thats what beer is for....................oh, ooops, I digress. [/QUOTE]
Ben Franklin said, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy".
Ben Franklin said, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy".