Talk:BMW M20

message: Did some of the eta engines come with K-Jetronic? The eta section contradicts itself later on where it claims all eta engines used Bosch Motronic instead. Lavenderbunny (talk) 00:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the first reference to K-Jet talks about the head design, only the 2nd one is talking about engine management specifically. But the question remains whether early 325e cars used the Motronic or K-Jet. Information is conflicting: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1705552, http://bmwfans.info/parts/catalog/E30/4-doors/USA/325e-M20/LHD/A/1984/august/browse/fuel_preparation_system/ versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_5_Series_(E28)#European_model_range (same engine in 1981-1988 528e listed as motronic) and http://84.45.115.78/e30zonewiki/index.php/Motronic (search for "042"). Maybe it differs between USA and Europe?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1292simon (talk • contribs) 08:36, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  K-Jetronic 

message: Did any M20 come with a more restrictive airbox than the 325i? 1292simon (talk) 14:00, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Tuning

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources states that "self-published media, such as... Internet forum postings... are largely not acceptable as sources". Detailed information on the M20 is scant, except for forum quotes, so I think this is a case where forum sources need to be accepted. If there is a citation method that acknowledges a source is not normally considered reliable, please let me know and I will be happy to update the links. 1292simon (talk) 03:29, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Typ932, I requested some discussing here before you reverted my edit again. Can you please do the right thing this time, so we can avoid a revert war1292simon (talk) 21:08, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read the rest of the section you refers to which clarifies which situations self-published sources can be used.  It does not include cases where reliable information is rare or hard to come by.  The information is also problematic in that it seems to violate WP:NOT in that Wikipedia is not a tuning guide. --Daniel 16:03, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is very clear case, both content and citations are not inline with Wikipedia rules. -->Typ932 T·C 17:19, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the info, Daniel J. I guess the whole Tuning section will have be removed then, which is a shame because I know many people who have found it useful 1292simon (talk) 02:01, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

text: It was deleted by User:Typ932 per the discussion immediately above. It does remain in the edit history however. --Daniel 06:13, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using internet forums for sources 

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message: Does anyone know if there were B27 engines that used Jetronic instead of Motronic?
A part number for the early B27 DME is 12141286697. These links suggest this is Motronic: , , .
This page states that the early 325e uses an L-Jetronic control unit, however it has the same description for the 325i (which definitely uses Motronic), which suggests there is a mistake. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 23:17, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  M20B27 initially used Jetronic?