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Americans add two to E30 M3
9 July, 2015 | by Lance Branquinho
http://www.topgear.co.za/news/original-m3-still-considered-the-best-what-if-it-had-six-cylinders/
For generations the greatest generation of M3 has – and will be – debated. Exhaustively.
An argument of merit can be made that the original four-cylinder E30 remains the best. A car South Africans were cruelly denied, substituted for by local specials such as 333i and 325is.
If the trend of excellence in all things BMW has always orbited around six-cylinders firing-off inline, why not craft a six-pot E30? Heresy or acceptable heritage?
Well, that issue is now open for debate thanks to Floridian BMW specialist Precision Sport Industries. This Stateside tuner’s done the unthinkable and transplanted an E36 3-litre engine into a very rare, original, E30.
The S50 powerplant is fuelled by a set of higher-pressure injectors and benefits from RD Sport headers, gas-exchanging through a custom crafted exhaust system. Those original E36 engines were good for 210kW and with Precision Sport’s modifications, this one should be cranking out a bit more – although its specific output figure has not been confirmed.
Detailing the remainder of this six-cylinder E30 M3 (soundS strange, doesn’t it?), are bucket seats, a cabin roll-cage and Hartge rims. There’s even a Nurburgring circuit outline stickered to the top rear of the boot lid.
The goal was a six-cylinder heritage DTM car. Awful waste of an original M3 or properly executed interpretation of what should have been done by BMW nearly three decades ago? You tell us…
9 July, 2015 | by Lance Branquinho
http://www.topgear.co.za/news/original-m3-still-considered-the-best-what-if-it-had-six-cylinders/
For generations the greatest generation of M3 has – and will be – debated. Exhaustively.
An argument of merit can be made that the original four-cylinder E30 remains the best. A car South Africans were cruelly denied, substituted for by local specials such as 333i and 325is.
If the trend of excellence in all things BMW has always orbited around six-cylinders firing-off inline, why not craft a six-pot E30? Heresy or acceptable heritage?
Well, that issue is now open for debate thanks to Floridian BMW specialist Precision Sport Industries. This Stateside tuner’s done the unthinkable and transplanted an E36 3-litre engine into a very rare, original, E30.
The S50 powerplant is fuelled by a set of higher-pressure injectors and benefits from RD Sport headers, gas-exchanging through a custom crafted exhaust system. Those original E36 engines were good for 210kW and with Precision Sport’s modifications, this one should be cranking out a bit more – although its specific output figure has not been confirmed.
Detailing the remainder of this six-cylinder E30 M3 (soundS strange, doesn’t it?), are bucket seats, a cabin roll-cage and Hartge rims. There’s even a Nurburgring circuit outline stickered to the top rear of the boot lid.
The goal was a six-cylinder heritage DTM car. Awful waste of an original M3 or properly executed interpretation of what should have been done by BMW nearly three decades ago? You tell us…
