adami
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I am trying to find the engine number on a 72 E9 motor can anyone help me out. Did they stamp the vin number on the block or does the motor have it own number.
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Looking for engine number location
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Look where the starter bolts into the block where the timing window is located. The VIN is stamped on a flat spot.
Look where the starter bolts into the block where the timing window is located. The VIN is stamped on a flat spot.
adami
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Is this the same for a 1989 735i engine block?
I spy an m90 in pic #2...
Ah, thank you my friend, however I'm pretty sure my number will be different.
Next question - I found where the number is but how do I see it with the fuel system and a bunch of immovable pipes and hoses in the way?
Anyone know a proctologist? Though when I think about it with the average age of owners here we probably all know proctologists.
Next question - I found where the number is but how do I see it with the fuel system and a bunch of immovable pipes and hoses in the way?
Anyone know a proctologist? Though when I think about it with the average age of owners here we probably all know proctologists.
Ah, thank you my friend, however I'm pretty sure my number will be different.
Next question - I found where the number is but how do I see it with the fuel system and a bunch of immovable pipes and hoses in the way?
Anyone know a proctologist? Though when I think about it with the average age of owners here we probably all know proctologists.
Stick your arm down there with a smart phone or digital camera and take a pic or video. It's a lot easier with a carb car.
I personally found it impossible to see this engine vin even sticking a phone camera down there many times. Had to use an endoscopic inspection camera to take a photo of my vin. (I have a FI E9 btw)
These little guys only cost about $40 on Amazon and plug into your phone. They are so useful. I also poke it in all my E9’s nooks an crannys looking for rust.
These little guys only cost about $40 on Amazon and plug into your phone. They are so useful. I also poke it in all my E9’s nooks an crannys looking for rust.
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Thanks Mal. Suitably proctological and may do the trick.
Could someone help me with my engine serial number as I would like to determine if it is original or not.
# stemped are 0157A013 which doesnt match my chassis number and does not look to be any other chassis number? Any thoughts?
My car is E9 3.0CS built in Feb. 1972.
# stemped are 0157A013 which doesnt match my chassis number and does not look to be any other chassis number? Any thoughts?
My car is E9 3.0CS built in Feb. 1972.
That’s a factory replacement block, it shows 3.0 as the displacement.
For more info you can check the exhaust side of the block for the year of the casting.
giodalborgo
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Happy my CS found a new, caring owner. After more then a decade of driving it as a first car, my family conditions changed and the roads became more and more dangerous because of the traffic, I found myself taking my WRX STI again and again. No place to stall the BMW correctly and the result was that it started to rot away... No local body shop wanted to prepare me an offer for a restoration, and the last one I had left the car to study the stuff that needed to be done and make me a price told me they had a car broker interested in the car.
Anyway, I bought the car in 1995 (not very good in dates, so it might as well be 1994 or 1996) and became the third owner. After having the mechanical part controlled and overhauled by the BMW Dealer Motorsport in Mestre, I imported the car to my home country and started using it intensively. The dealer changed all the filters, the fluids, the seals of all the pumps, the rubber cuffs and sleeves, and disabled the Californian system to recycle parts of the exhaust gasses (the car was built for the American market, but stayed in Europe). Moreover I had the original airco revised (yes, a 1973 car with an airco and seat belts).
A couple of years later on a very hot afternoon, the engine fan's transmission broke and the engine overheated very quickly and fatally. This was also due to the poor design of the engine's water channels, especially in the head. The damage was huge and the revision of the engine would have cost me twice the money a factory revised engine was costing. Moreover, more than 20 years after the car's production, there were just two out of 12 mechanics at Motorsport Mestre that knew how to repair a 6 in line engine with two Zenith double body carburetors. While installing the engine, all the remaining parts of the Californian emission reducing system were removed.
A few years later, the rust devil started to eat up Karmann's not so solid body in all the usual spots. After the engine was swapped, I had the car restored in its original colour, Malaga, had it re-chromed, and had the inside cleaned, especially the fantastic leather seats and sofa in dark beige. The only thing I had the body shop remove were the reflectors on both sides that were compulsory in the USA. The bumpers were already European, fortunately.
I drove the car regularly until 2009, but not as a first car anymore. This obviously accelerated the detoration process, up to the moment I finally decided to get rid of the car. I still love the E9 and have very good memories of the 15 years I drove it. I have kept the car pretty close to original spending too much money for the salary I was earning at that moment. And since I have two left hands I was always very dependent on repair shops that became too expensive for the job they were doing.
Anyway, success with, at least that is what I think, the most remarkable BMW in car history, with its infinitely long shark nose and the electrical windows that completely disappeared in the body. Who knows if I will see it driving around in Slovenia one day...
Anyway, I bought the car in 1995 (not very good in dates, so it might as well be 1994 or 1996) and became the third owner. After having the mechanical part controlled and overhauled by the BMW Dealer Motorsport in Mestre, I imported the car to my home country and started using it intensively. The dealer changed all the filters, the fluids, the seals of all the pumps, the rubber cuffs and sleeves, and disabled the Californian system to recycle parts of the exhaust gasses (the car was built for the American market, but stayed in Europe). Moreover I had the original airco revised (yes, a 1973 car with an airco and seat belts).
A couple of years later on a very hot afternoon, the engine fan's transmission broke and the engine overheated very quickly and fatally. This was also due to the poor design of the engine's water channels, especially in the head. The damage was huge and the revision of the engine would have cost me twice the money a factory revised engine was costing. Moreover, more than 20 years after the car's production, there were just two out of 12 mechanics at Motorsport Mestre that knew how to repair a 6 in line engine with two Zenith double body carburetors. While installing the engine, all the remaining parts of the Californian emission reducing system were removed.
A few years later, the rust devil started to eat up Karmann's not so solid body in all the usual spots. After the engine was swapped, I had the car restored in its original colour, Malaga, had it re-chromed, and had the inside cleaned, especially the fantastic leather seats and sofa in dark beige. The only thing I had the body shop remove were the reflectors on both sides that were compulsory in the USA. The bumpers were already European, fortunately.
I drove the car regularly until 2009, but not as a first car anymore. This obviously accelerated the detoration process, up to the moment I finally decided to get rid of the car. I still love the E9 and have very good memories of the 15 years I drove it. I have kept the car pretty close to original spending too much money for the salary I was earning at that moment. And since I have two left hands I was always very dependent on repair shops that became too expensive for the job they were doing.
Anyway, success with, at least that is what I think, the most remarkable BMW in car history, with its infinitely long shark nose and the electrical windows that completely disappeared in the body. Who knows if I will see it driving around in Slovenia one day...