100k and beyond, the planned & forced maintenance adventure. (OEM parts lists inside)

[cncmastr]

Great thread! Good luck with the X!

[J.Belknap]

Originally Posted by SlickGT1

I found it really cool. I thought it was a scam at first. Hope karma pays it forward and they drop you a set of pistons.

Man it was really no sacrifice here... I guess my karma thing is content.

Originally Posted by cncmastr

Great thread! Good luck with the X!

Thanks bud! Hope it's useful in some way, and if not... that it passes your time at work. :p

[J.Belknap]

So the heads are back from VAC Motorsports!









I inspected them at length last night, and in the next post I'm going to put some links to high-res pictures so you guys can do your own white glove inspections as well if you're interested in this stuff.

Thoughts so far:

- They do a great job of keeping the dining room table from floating away.

- From my personal experience in dealing with VAC Motorsports I'm pleased with the communication & workmanship. IMHO, Tony Salloum (the owner), his partner Paul Milano, and the whole crew up there in Philly are a top notch shop. CJ was/is my sales representative, and I would highly recommend his support to your guys' inquires. He recommended performing the following refreshing & improvements, and DID NOT try and upsell me shit that I didn't need. CJ actually had to talk me out of the heavy valvesprings and stuff... apparently they don't get along with the VANOS cam gears, and I'm not doing a VANOS delete. Thanks for not fucking the customer for the short-term dollars dude, you guys will get the long term dollars.

VAC Motorsports M62B46 Stage 1 Performance Head Specs:

VAC-S1PCH-M60 (Quantity 1)
VAC - M60/M62/S62 Stage 1 Performance Cylinder Head
-Complete Disassembly & Cleaning
-Comprehensive Leak, Crack & Pressure Test
-Inspect All Components For Irregular Wear
-Our High performance Multi Angle Valve Job using Serdi Equipment
-All New VAC Uprated Valve Guides
-Viton Valve Seals
-Reconditioning & Blueprinting of Your Valves (N/A - Uprated Valves)
-Balancing of Your OE Springs
-Trueness Checked & Resurfaced Mating Surface
-Unshrouding of Valves
-Attention to Potential Hot-spot Areas and Chamfering

VAC-HPV-M60 (Quantity 1)
VAC M60/M62 Valve Kit (32) 6mm Valve Stem
- Stainless Steel Intake, Triple Groove, Standard Size
- Inconel Exhaust, Single Groove, Standard Size

VAC-HVL-6MM-S (Quantity 16)
6mm Hardened Valve Locks / Keepers
- Single Groove

[J.Belknap]

VAC Motorsports M62B46 Stage 1 Performance Head Hi-Res Photos:

Unboxing 1
Unboxing 2
Unboxing 3
Unboxing 4
Unboxing 5
Inspection
Rear View
Front View
Top View 1
Top View 2
Intake Ports 1
Intake Ports 2
S/S Intake Valves & Hardware ("T 1.039/1" stamp) 1
S/S Intake Valves & Hardware ("T 1.039/1" stamp) 2
S/S Intake Valves & Hardware ("T 1.039/1" stamp) 3
Exhaust Ports 1
Exhaust Ports 2
Inconel Exhaust Valves & Hardware ("8348" stamp???) This stamp was/is extremely hard to read and I still am not 100% positive of the characters or if so are not able to view entirely. Kind of a bummer, but no biggie.
Combustion Chamber 1
Combustion Chamber 2
OEM casting date stamp
OEM M62B46 stamp
OEM "60" stamp that I found kind of interesting...

The VAC Motorsports Oil Pump should be complete next week. The quality of workmanship in these heads eases worries of something happening during the oil pump's dissection, surgery, and reassembly. That VAC oil pump sprocket bolt better be locktited so hard it'll survive WWIII... that's all I'll say, haha.

[SlickGT1]

Oh holy crap. That looks very very pretty. Nice. What's the damage, $$$, for the vac upgrade?

[J.Belknap]

Right below the P/N's are links to the product & pricing sir. I wanted a real good BMW shop to do the head refresh. Specifically, the experience to know where look for common stress damage areas, if any.

[SlickGT1]

Yea I saw that. Curious of you had "extras" added

[J.Belknap]

So I figured I'd upload some pics. Maybe show you guys what I was up to since the last post. Nothing crazy really, just cleaned the parts and assembled.

Finishing photobucket dump now. One sec.

[J.Belknap]

[J.Belknap]