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Thanks Scott Just got back from The Vintage and all I have to say is AWESOME!!!! This show is a must see for any vintage BMW fan. Thanks Scott.

I have been over that engine top-side and bottom-side every square inch. I have checked the oil pump top to bottom, even used my boroscope to reach inaccessible areas and I have found zero evidence of missing or broken parts.

Thanks, that sounds plausible I did go over the oil pump but I will give it a second look. Do you have any idea where on the pump these shim where originally located: http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=5374&mospid=47205&btnr=11_2134&hg=11&fg=30

Coin included for reference.

OK. one more time for the brain dead. THESE PISTON DO NOT HAVE SKIRTS!!! I can clearly see the bottom of all six pistons and they look FINE!!! That's kinda what it looks like but thats not what it is. If it were piston skirts it wouldn't be machined at the very top it would be broken off.

I don't know where you got that pic from but those are not my M30 pistons. These are not piston skirts. If you look closer they are machined on all four sides. The tops are concave as if they were part of a gear mechanism.

I just dropped the oil pan (E24 M30) and found two metal tabs approximately a centimeter and a half square. Obviously from the scarring they were once part of moving internals. The car runs great, no problems. Can anyone identify these and tell me if this could be detrimental to my engine?

Thought there might be interest. Not affiliated: http://richmond.craigslist.org/cto/2189145782.html

I am the opposite. With the exception of the e9 I don't like much built pre 76. I also am not a fan of 4 doors. I like coupes. I have only one BMW four door.

Wrong again munch. I was never banned even for a day by our dear leader. Never owned, never driven, never needed to. The car is fugly. I have owned some of Bavaria's finest though including the following: the e30, e36, e46, e24, e9. So my OPINION comes from experience an an innate sense of...

"minor rust in the floor pans/rockers" = bucket.

Well, I believe I have contributed (quite a bit). But then I am criticized for being too negative. Now I am positive but not long enough...I can't win.

You should heed your own advice....

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Not even close.

They have no grace or style. The E9 is the only classic BMW of that era that I like. I also don't care for the 2002. Just not a good looking car. I'm also not a fan of the E12 or E23.