01-14-2005, 05:06 AM
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E30 M3 + E39 M5
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01-14-2005, 05:39 AM
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oh la la I like it. Interesting idea, I never would have thought of putting a newer V8 in an engine bay designed for something with half as many cylinders. Its a great idea  It helps that the E39 M5's engine was such a masterpiece
Hopefully they'll do some suspension and chassis tuning to compensate for the big weight gain...
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01-14-2005, 08:56 AM
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I fear it is just too heavy at the front, but well, it still is a cool idea and for sure there are not many V8 E30 
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01-14-2005, 10:17 AM
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Why not supercharge the E39 V8 and plop it onto an exige? Imagine a super lightweight mid-engined V8 with Lotus handling.
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01-14-2005, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by TT
I fear it is just too heavy at the front, but well, it still is a cool idea and for sure there are not many V8 E30 |
Yeah it looks like the engine is almost completely in front of the front axle... gotta be horrible for weight distribution, not to mention the polar moment of inertia
But hey, it is unique
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01-14-2005, 01:15 PM
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Lol yeah it definitely is unique, but i have to agree with the problems of weight distribution... looks like a recipe for chronic understeer to me 
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01-14-2005, 01:31 PM
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hell car, imagine that power in the corners only one small step on gas and your back will be in corner first, great but better will be M 3 E46 engine in that or 3.0i V6
231 hp, hartge H50 is also brutal
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01-14-2005, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Sir_GT
Why not supercharge the E39 V8 and plop it onto an exige? Imagine a super lightweight mid-engined V8 with Lotus handling.
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...I think if they were going to do that it ought to be the in-house 3.5L turbo V8 from the now-defunct Esprit...or maybe that itsy-bitsy 2.6L Powertech V8 which is currently due to be used in the Radical SR8....at least 383bhp and around 210lb-ft. Imagine that engine....just imagine it... http://pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=9293
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01-14-2005, 03:49 PM
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01-14-2005, 06:10 PM
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Pretty cool...I bet it sounds a whole lot better with that V8 as compared to the I4 it came with. 
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01-15-2005, 02:17 PM
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Mmmmm. . . I just picked up an E30 too. Not M3 though =(.
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01-15-2005, 05:54 PM
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I wonder how much development and cost it took to shoehorn that big V8 in there?
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01-15-2005, 06:18 PM
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I afraid not only does the weight distribution goes shitty, the chassis might not be ridgid enough for the twisting power of the M5 engine. I guess it's not a good mod. It would be better off turbo charging the original M3 stroker engine.
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01-18-2005, 06:30 PM
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Is the E39 M5 V8 not a 90 degree? There sure must be a lot of cutting out metal to make space for the exhaust.....
A forged S14 would probably have delivered a least the same performance on the straight, but would have been much better around the bends...
Some crazy german even made one with an Alpina V12... Have a look at the pics
http://www.behindmatrix.com/e30/foto...017/f00017.htm
Found this at e30.de..... check it out, lots of nice BMW's....
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01-18-2005, 06:56 PM
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personally i think that takin it to far
going from a 4 cylinder to a 8 it just lookin for attention but who knows maybe this will live at the drag strip
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