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Here's weekly dose of your catastrophic engine forensics! Every week you can find a new teardown of some abused, misused and/or poorly designed engine. I've got over 160 videos of failed engine teardowns on this channel.
Today we tear into a 3 cylinder! The BMW/Mini Cooper B38. This engine is designed on the same architecture as the B48 and the renowned B58. Essentially, this engine is half of a B58. This was a core engine purchased with a large lot of engines a month or two ago, so I don't have details like mileage or the car it was out of. From the date codes, I can tell its from a 2019, and most likely a Mini Cooper. There are different versions of this engine and they range from 100hp to 228hp in the I8,. pretty impressive for such a small package.
Why am I doing this? My name is Eric and I own and run a full service auto salvage business called Importapart. Part of our model includes buying and dismantling blown up/core engines to resell the usable parts. We do not rebuild or repair engines, instead we sell parts to those who do!

I really hope you enjoyed this teardown. As always I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you on the next one!

-Eric