If You Build It, They will Come... or you can get some work done.

With all the projects going on this Summer and the multiplication of engine rebuilds happening and loss of storage space -- it's time to expand and make some real room to get work done!

 Along comes a dumpster and of course you have to fill it. So went in the initial bits of the garage wing in preparation of the new garage bay and shop area in back.

 This is the shot with the old wing left over before demo. I've been cutting the lean-too's rafters from the attic this week to pull it off the original garage.

 Yuck. the cracked slab of the sunroom area with a totally failed slab letting in tree roots and all sorts of moisture. Not this time around!

Rachel scores a $40.00 concrete mixer that works great! Will use it to mix up concrete for the piers and other items in preparation of the main shop/garage project! Too small to do a slab unless you do it in October...

Almost forgot this Blog was here!! A new Project: 2.7 M20 Swap!

Glad to see some subscribers on here. The 323i was sold a couple of years ago to some dunderhead that couldn't appreciate it and he wound up selling her for DOUBLE what he paid for it to someone in Miami. Well, I hope "Pixie" has a good life down in FL.

In any case, I now have Sierra. A 1979 320/6 euro with an M20 2.0 liter engine and Solex 4 barrel carb setup. The engine is leaking like a sieve around the head and front / rear seals so it's time to pull that tired engine and while I'm doing that might as well install something a bit larger!

Enjoy the pics and log onto bimmerforums.com for my thread regarding this rebuild/swap project.

This is the one table for the block (2.7 out of an '85 325e), pistons, oil pump and other associated bits from that engine.

This is the 95K mile M20B20 engine in the 320/6 right now. Great engine but you need to keep a cardboard sheet in the boot in order to slide under the engine when you park anywhere! Notice the Sanders compressor and A/C setup straight from the factory. UM, good old R14....

This is the photo of table 2 with the new crank (the original 2.7 crank was ROASTED!), bearings, more bearings, gaskets, water pump, and more bits to be able to put this engine back together. Nearly there!