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[kbmb02]

For those wondering: Those spring-like bits under the carb mounting nuts are thackery washers - intended to work in conjunction with the soft mount at the base, they allow for some compliance to reduce vibration. The nuts are not supposed be be fully-tightened when using those washers in an application like this. (I use thackery washers on the downdraft anti-vibration mount I made for downdraft carbs.) -KB

['76mintgrün'02]

2 hours ago, Road trip said:

The Radiator is Not "Painted"

thats black Anodized 

 

Well, that's cool.  It can be hard to keep paint on aluminum.  I remembered this discussion from last Dec., so I looked it up.  Gary's anodized radiator was for a Korman engine as well.

As for the blue coil with an external resistor, here are the 111 hits for a search I pulled up.  You don't have to go to the threads themselves, just read what appears on the search page and you will see why I asked.

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/search/?&q=blue coil external resistor&type=forums_topic

[zinz]

On closer inspection, those are, indeed, not lock washers, but some type of a spring washer in conjunction with a nylon nut and the vibration-dampening spacer. I have not seen this...interesting. The nut certainly looks loose, but there's no way it would run if it were loose 

 

 

On the issue of pancake filters...there has been plenty of talk in the past concerning filter sizing and how velocity stacks improve airflow. The use of a standard brake booster is a major limiting factor to adding bigger filters and stacks and your set up is pretty close to the booster.  Mr. Korman has been building this engine for many years and certainly knows what he's doing at this point.  Leaving a few ponies on the dyno floor with smaller filters is sometimes the price that must be paid for engine bay fitment and streetability....all things that Ray has to warranty against.

 

The final word is that you are happy with your set up and that is all that matters. It's a beautiful engine bay.

 

...Mint may have a point about the blue coil, though.  Coils come in all kinds of colors, so the only true way to know what you have is to put a meter on it.  The original blue coil would not use the external ballast resistor, though... I believe that is the Ireland distributor with an electronic igniter and it is susceptible to incorrect voltage.  I would check the resistance value of the coil, just to be sure.

 

Ed

[Road trip]

9 hours ago, zinz said:

On closer inspection, those are, indeed, not lock washers, but some type of a spring washer in conjunction with a nylon nut and the vibration-dampening spacer. I have not seen this...interesting. The nut certainly looks loose, but there's no way it would run if it were loose 

 

 

On the issue of pancake filters...there has been plenty of talk in the past concerning filter sizing and how velocity stacks improve airflow. The use of a standard brake booster is a major limiting factor to adding bigger filters and stacks and your set up is pretty close to the booster.  Mr. Korman has been building this engine for many years and certainly knows what he's doing at this point.  Leaving a few ponies on the dyno floor with smaller filters is sometimes the price that must be paid for engine bay fitment and streetability....all things that Ray has to warranty against.

 

The final word is that you are happy with your set up and that is all that matters. It's a beautiful engine bay.

 

...Mint may have a point about the blue coil, though.  Coils come in all kinds of colors, so the only true way to know what you have is to put a meter on it.  The original blue coil would not use the external ballast resistor, though... I believe that is the Ireland distributor with an electronic igniter and it is susceptible to incorrect voltage.  I would check the resistance value of the coil, just to be sure.

 

Ed

Ireland distributor Yes but Korman installed a Petronix inside

[GazM3]

20 hours ago, Road trip said:

No trumpets will not improve this set up

Korman stage3 uses according to thier website the schrick 316 cam.   If they used this cam It's a good effort to make it idle with ac etc.  The short trumpets may not be an issue.   The airfilters look very small.   I had same k&n ones on my dcoe 40's.  With the newly installed dcoe 45's I'm going with the red weber sock filters.  

 

Engine looks sensational.  Very clean.  

[Ian]

Nice!  Years ago I had a Korman Stage 3 engine with a 304 cam and dual Weber 40 DCOEs.  Awesome engine; that was in my daily driver/track car.  It really hauled at high rpms.

[schwarz75]

What compression is your Stage III Korman engine? The installation, engine, etc. all look fantastic!