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How are people measuring the clearance once they swap in the new bearings. I don't believe they are IMO. I guess you ccould install the bearings with some plastigauge and then torque the rod caps and remove to check the clearance but I highly doubt that the shops are doing this. You know, all these threads about bad clearances from rod bearing tolerances and yet we haven't seen any measurements from the replacements. Makes you wonder. I would imagine the same (replacement) bearings are getting destroyed as well, but we have yet to see any replacement bearings getting replaced. Time will tell, but this isn't a real solution unless you measure everything. |
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What I am interested in is a follow up on those who installed WPC treated bearings n how they look at the same mileage tht the original bearings looked like when they were changed . One problem with this thou is - if lets say the bearing change interval is 40K to 60K , by the time The WPC bearings are due for replacement , how many people would actually still own the car ... Most I think would have passed on to a subsequent owner .... So the sample size will be even smaller |
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If it's any random set, then they can be potentially problematic. This is a problem if some bearings have proper clearance already from the factory and then they are swap to unmeasured bearings that have tighter clearances. |
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They are probably just normal clearance OEM bearings.
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These motors are not for the random Joe Schmo on bimmerpost. The gentlemen drivers using these engines show up at the track with fully built from ground up racecar, with big budget haulers. They don't think twice about spending the money buying a race prepared motor by Dinan, who has won many races and championships. |
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Coming from a guy who just replaced his entire motor; 40K isn't bad at all, especially if you take into account what you get out of a fully reengineered engine. Brand new long block straight from BMW is almost 19K and it produces 414 HP.... now start calculating your cost per hosepower gained from there. Think about this, Akrapovic is charging almost 7K just for 10hp... Nuf said.
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