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Originally Posted by BruceJ
Jdoublecubed - you can just p/u a nice metric micometer, feeler gages and make your measurements. Then just order the one, and one up and one down of the correct size. Takes longer but about 300 cheaper.
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Unless your car is your daily driver, and you can't let it sit with the engine open for a week while you get in shims. Also, given the significant variability between shims even of a same size, I don't think you could get every valve perfectly in the center of the range with that method. You really need more shims to play with.
Certainly possible to do the job that way, but for the cost of renting the kit from me (or many others on the e46 forum), why make it difficult? After all, you've already spent enough $$ to buy an M
