[V8] Engine rebuild options

sdewitt at stx.rr.com sdewitt at stx.rr.com
Mon Aug 25 11:18:40 PDT 2008


Not accoring to this:

http://www.bmwseven.com/Alum_engine.pdf

Straight from Kolbenschmidt.

Scott

---- Bastian Preindl <bastian at preindl.net> wrote: 
> 4,2 cylinder bores are NiKaSil coated
> 3,6 cylinder bores are sulfid etched
> 
> Rebuilding by drilling a PT is no problem, but on a 4,2 you have to recoat
> (with NiKaSil or whatever).
> 
> Bastian
> 
> > Both the 3.6 and the 4.2 cylinder bores are bare aluminium/silicon, and
> > rebuilding them is not a problem.
> 



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