So I just picked my car up from having the subframe re-enforced at VT motorworks (highly recommend) and the tech there was telling me that my car was a very early production model and I had a different valve cover then normal m3s? I have never heard of that before and I have been trying to to research to see if I can find my exact production number for the US built cars. My production build date is 02/01 and from what I can find that is the first month of production for the US spec cars. I thought it was kinda cool and wanted to know if maybe I have one of the first imported m3's? Any insight would be helpful, thanks.
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Pic of said valve cover?
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My valve cover is flat all the way across, no humps or the cams or anythingOriginally posted by Phoenix///M3 View PostAttached FilesComment
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Not too surprising to see some weird stuff on early ones. My vert was built 3/1/01 and going by what the folks at the M registry told me was one of the first 50 or so production convertibles (VIN EX20096). I believe vert production for the NA market began the last week of February 2001, following coupe production that had begun a week or two earlier. Preproduction models of each had been around for roughly 6 months prior, and some of those definitely had some strange combinations of options that didn't show up for another year or so on production models, if at all.
My car doesn't have anything out of the ordinary for the 2001s other than the existence of the 999 option code for the initial sales allotment, meaning it and 3-400 others like it were IR/BK.
It's been a couple months since I've had the engine cover off to replace the coils, but I seem to recall it has the scallops over the cams. I've had it for 4 years, so it's entirely possible it could have been replaced somewhere along the line, but I know the guy I bought it from didn't replace it, and he'd had it for 3 years before he sold it to me.
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If you are interested in ever selling or trading + cash it for the updated one, let me know I'd love to have that for my race engine build.Comment
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Why that kind, specifically?Originally posted by PurelliCondoms View Post
2005 IR/IR M3 Coupe
2012 LMB/Black 128i
2008 Black/Black M5 SedanComment
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Just because I want one 🤷🏼♂️. Couldn’t tell ya why obi, but I need one lol.Originally posted by Obioban View PostComment
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