Clutch upgrade continues

I looked around for an M3 clutch and eBay UK and eBay US ended up being very expensive when postage was added. I then looked at eBay Germany and up popped a couple of second hand clutch assemblies including flywheel. Got in touch with one guy and ended up paying €200 for the whole assembly including postage to Sweden. Only a few days later all 18kg arrived! 

Little clean up required

The clutch plate and pressure plate are much bigger than the M44 version but the flywheel is exactly the same size, same number of teeth, same mounting points etc. but the clutch space available is very much more.

Locked the flywheel in place and then easy to remove the eight flywheel retaining bolts.

Not sure whether I need to replace the retaining bolts, should be enough to add a little Loctite I would have thought - ideas? That goes for the  clutch pressure plate retaining bolts too?

Flywheel match! 

Flywheel removed ready to remove pilot bearing. Dave sent me a youtube link to someone who used bread to remove the bearing - well it worked for me too!

This is the new M3 flywheel temporarily in place. It should fit nicely into the gearbox housing.

Tomorrow I'll nip into the local BMW dealer and order clutch plate, release bearing, pilot bearing, inlet and exhaust gaskets, also considering changing to ARP bolts and replacing crankshaft bearings so will need a new M42 gasket as well (my M44 sump was replaced by a shortened M42). It will all be quite expensive but may as well replace as much as possible - if it's really needed!

Engine needs a cleanup and repaint.