Dear all
It has been a long time since I ever wrote in this greetforum, well I sold my CSI because the engine wanted some major strip down asthe piston rings were weak etc…., after selling the car for some time I discoveredthat cannot live without having an 8 series around!, so I decided to buy oneand found a nice example (840ci Y98) which was imported from Japan with all Mtech extra’s, having in my mind that this car is less powered than the CSI, I decidedto supercharge the car with ESS supercharger kit and I did convert the car fromauto to manual with light fly wheel and performance clutch upgrade from UUC motorwerks moreover I did change the camshaft profilepurchased from VAC motorsport (264/262) together with upgrading the LSD differential ratio to 3:45,canceled the engine fan and installed EVO sport pulley’s together with plasmacoils, to cut the long story short withthe list of modification I ended up with car which has 398hp on wheels. To everyonewhich was involved in the project were happy with result except me, the powergain did not meet my expectation and I kept driving the car for the last two yearsthinking for alternative plan, until the time came when I have found a 2001 alpina6.0 engine in perfect condition. I have thought of changing the head’s with 4valve cylinder from McLaren but unfortunately the resources and logisticslimited my search and I conclude that the only way to reach my target with 600hpis to go with force injection (supercharge), I have seen two kit’s available inthe market, one from a guy called john in DC and the other one from 8tech,which I tried to reach both with no success.
Can anyone from the forum advise me if any of those kits arestill available in the market? I would like to install air to liquidapplication intercooler instead of air to air, any advice will be much appreciatedon the maximum pressure I would go on this type of engine as the compression ratiois 10:25
Above is open for discussion and thank you in advance foryour contribution to this project:).
Regards
