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M40 body E30 motor?

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Topic: M40 body E30 motor?
Posted By: diaa salah
Subject: M40 body E30 motor?
Date Posted: 20-October-2002 at 14:11

to anybody,

I have a classic case here, i have an 88, 318 M40, my mechanic says that its got a E 30 engine. and its sort of a rare model by BMW. Does anyone have any clue about this?

thanks for your help.


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Posted By: kbannon
Date Posted: 20-October-2002 at 20:51

You have a standard BMW e30 318i with the M40 engine. The e30 is the body style of the 3 series from '83 till 91.

The M40 is the code used to describe the engine: 4 cylinder 1596/1796cc (yours is 1796cc) used in the e30 316i & 318i and the e34 518i. This engine should not be confused with that of the 318is which used the M42 engine which had a timing chain instead of belt, DOHC instead of single and lots more horses!

see http://e30bmw.8m.com/e-numbers.html for more details

Killian



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