tune up m42

"Dear Sir,

The guy Nick mentioned is:-

Nigel Moseley of:-
Moseley Motorsport,
Telford,
01952 503992

Mosely Web

lancelot II is correct. The Superchips chip for this engine is generic but is quite good.

I doubt for £295 they are going to do a custom chip. They may run the car up on their rollers to ensure you don't have detonation, but if they have a chip off the shelf I bet that's what you will get.

If you really want to do this properly, sepak to Nigel at Bexley Motorworks 0208 304 9797. They had an e36 with an M42 that they modified with a new induction system and ecu, it worked very well. Also, if you want a chip get a custom one. Off the shelf chips are cheap alternatives to doing the job properly, and that is on the rolling road with a custom map for your car.
Think about this, if you buy the off the shelf chip and then make other mods to the car how do you know the chip is making the most of those mods. Answer, you don't and it probably isn't. Custom chip is the way to go.

lol 325, yers...

as mentioned i do like the compact tho :(

I gonna try the chip and flywheel thing first. superchips have one for £295, which seems a little expensive...?

I can get a 316 flywheel from a breakers, but I'm gonna get it lightened to 8.5kg - see what happens!

ty for ur help m8 :)

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b318isp

re: flywheel, ok that's cool, I think I'll do that thx 4 help on that :)

engine: well, for example, the birds site had 2 conversions, 2.1 and 2.3, so if the bore is a constant, surely, considering the 318 is a pretty common car, there can't be that many permutations of crank and stroke length? (I'm guessing?)

crank throw, hmm, I hadn't thought of that...

but again, there must be some fairly common sizes/dimensions that people have used...?

hi kbannon, well I simply cut&pasted into a browser, hardly rocket science! ;)

b318isp:
"Just get a flywheel off a 316i/318i and bolt it up!" = I love simplicity! - could one change the flywheel by dropping the gearbox and leaving the engine in place, thereby exposing the flywheel?

ok that bit's easy, but you think getting hold of crank and conrods is the diffcult bit huh? hmm...why's that?

"If you stroke the engine, get a custom map chip instead"

indeed...ok, so hold back on the chip until you decide to do the stroke-to-2.3-thing...ok, good point :)

[ srry about bold btw, dunno what happend ^^ ]

Edited by kbannon

Just get a flywheel off a 316i/318i and bolt it up!

The problem is getting the crank and conrods. If you solve that problem, let me know!

"There is scope to lighten the flywheel to reduce spin up inertia in lowergears"

"89 models were fitted with the M40 9.973kg flywheel but were changed to a 11.45kg (aircon) or 12.25kg (no aircon) from 1990! So there's about 2.5kg saving to be had at a fraction of the cost of a performance part!"

I did this to an old cortina and really noticed the extra pickup, so fancy this as well, while the blocks off...would it be better to ask an engine shop to lighten yours, or buy an older, lighter one?

Edited by bgti2