M20B27 Block or whole engine.

[tigran]

Hey guys, taken the M20B27 out of my 525e recently so it's up for sale. I can sell the block as it is or as an entire engine with gearbox attached for anyone mental enough to want to replace their 2.7 like-for like.

Price is £150 for the Block, Con-rod, pistons, sump.

or

£200 for the entire kit n kaboodle. Complete running engine with (questionable but working) gearbox, and all the inlet guffins.

The engine has covered around 215000 miles but was still going when in the Rusty Streak and doing so with no issues whatsoever, no misfires, no iffy smoke.

I would prefer for someone to just take the block tbh as i'd be quite interested in using the head and gearbox as a learning curve.

Oh and currently collection-only from Bournemouth. I could deliver locally but cannot be bothered traipising more than 50 miles from Bournemouth to deliver.

The engine will be getting stripped at a leasurly pace over the next couple of weeks so if you want the engine as a whole be quick.

[prey]

excuse the ignorance but what block is this and what head do you need etc?

[tigran]

It's the block from a 2.7 m20 engine. But with the rubbish economy head as fitted in e28 525e's. With bits from a 2.5 M20 you can build a high performance 2.7 M20. That's the basics anyway.

[tigran]

Oh also if any of you kind 'Zoners fancy sticking a link up that would be fantabulous. I'm sure the e30 guys would have some interest.

[surprisingskoda]

I'll pop it up this evening for you mate. If you're willing to split it then the bottom end shouldn't hang around long, for stroker 2.8 builds as you say. PM me your number ffor when they ask, and a generic pic (E30zone requires a pic to advertise or it gets pulled).

[tigran]

Cheers dude. Pm pinging it's way over in a moment. Yeah would be happy splitting it up.

[tigran]

Quick bump for this. No one building a ferocious M20?

[tigran]

Up you go.

[surprisingskoda]

Still? had loads of pms on the e30zone, you'd think someone would have contacted you!

[tigran]

Nope absolutely diddly squat man. It's not like there's other ones out there, and it's pretty cheap. Ho hum

[tigran]

Right guys. This is getting in the way at the workshop. So if someone can come and pick it up this week you can have the whole kit n caboodle for £125! Which is a bloody bargain!

[tigran]

Hup you get.

[Mystery Machine]

I remember a time when 2.7 blocks were fetching silly money! I know some of the market has died since people started sticking M50/M52 engines in their E30's but this is a really cheap and easy way of getting some good power while still keeping some originality (i.e. engine bay still looks very factory M20)

With the M20 2.5 head, this is a great conversion and I cannot understand why it hasn't sold - especially as you're asking very little for it. I'll ask my mate Tom if he might be interested although I know he's currently fairly knee deep in engines! Always worth asking though

[Dez]

ive just been reminded of something rob said to me about diffs, after seeing your usernames together!

bruce, you need to talk to tigran- ask him if he wants to sell his rubbish ratio 2.something diff that a 525E should have fitted

[sebring]

will you do the block for £80??

[sebring]

and can you deliver to hayes, ub3??

[tigran]

I can do the block for £100 but I can't deliver until next Saturday. I'm going past Hayes today but don't have time to get it all loaded up.

[Mystery Machine]

Aha! Thanks Dez

Tigs, are you selling that "rubbish 2.something diff" of yours? If so, please let me know? It'll be going into something pretty awesome, so I guess you now need to sell it to me

[tigran]

We'll have a chat about it at next playday. It deffo wont be out before then but we'll have a chat about the diff then. It's got your name on it either way.