BMW 2002: The Original Ultimate Driving Machine

As some of you know, I am currently in the process of converting my 1975 BMW 2002 into a full out SCCA GT3 club racing machine. In short, I am dumping a whole lot of money into a 31 year old BMW to make it handle like it was on rails. Plus, adding a bunch of horsepower never hurt either. Currently, I am having the block bored 0.040" over to match my Ross Forged aluminum pistons.

I bet you cant guess which is the performance piston.

Here is the bottom end of the engine, prior to disassembly. Note the chain driven fuel pump. There are 2 chains in the engine. One runs from the crank and drives the oil pump, the other runs from the crank and drives the cam. Quite different from the distributor driven oil pumps that I am used to. The cylinder head is back in Las Cruces with Will Garard. He is decking the head, porting and polishing, matching the intake, assembling, and all that other good stuff. He's the man.

Here is the car in the garage with my Mustang. I plan on putting a widebody kit on it, changing the paint (not that fond of orange), and a handful of other performance upgrades. If you want to go into detail, im going with a dry sump oiling system, Schrick regrind camshaft, MSD ignition, Toyota Supra transmission, 3.90:1 limited slip rear, Wilwood superlight calipers, coilovers, JWAMS Engineering (thats me, you'll find out about it later) suspension components, full roll cage, Kirkey racing seat, and a bunch more I cant think of. The minimum racing weight for the car is 1,880 pounds. This thing is going to move.

EDIT

Here is a picture that better shows the valve reliefs, per Raven's comment.