Hi Neil:

No ASR. I will definitely send you a PM for a price this weekend. Are you running a 3.07 in your wagon now?

I'm going to do the same thing that Maddog did when he put his car together. Except he did the work himself on his flywheel.....I'm going to bring it to a good machine shop. I'm going to either use my original auto trans segments (can I use them?????) or just buy the same auto trans flywheel at a junk yard, have two segments cut off (I wouldn't know which end of the torch to use myself) and get them welded to the 86 manual flywheel at 4 and 8 o'clock, then have the 86 manual's 6 o'clock segment removed and get the whole thing balanced. As you know, it's the only thing standing in the way of getting a 5-speed behind the M104. Price shouldn't be terribly high.

I figured that our auto trans flywheels have the segments we need. We don't need to find a dual mass for donor segments. Am I wrong about this?

As you probably know, we can't use a dual mass unit because the trans input shaft was a different length on the 300E manual box vs the SL's manual box. Not that I'd want a dual mass unit anyway. My brother in law tells me that they are a common failure point on late 80's BMW's when pushed hard.

I know you like to keep things as OEM as possible on your wagon, but it looks like some fabrication may be required here. I'm good with it. Several people other than Maddog have done this too (190revolution.net)

Brian

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Brian
1995 E320 wagon