V12 in a 318ti?!? - Anyone seen this?

[mrnine]

All I can say is wow. Great article.

Racing Dynamics jams a 5.5 liter 850ci V12 in a 318 Compact. Too cool!

427 bhp @ 5900 rpm; 404 lbs.-ft. @ 4100; 0-60 in < 4.5 secs

http://www.geocities.com/fly2low/R55.html

This page is in Russian Cyrilic but is worth a look for the pics:

http://bmw.carclub.ru/articles/allarticles/0000001754/

[96cali]

Nice find Mr9. I was wondering when someone would do that.

Unfortunately it does not compare to the guys at NASA strapping my ti to a left over shuttle booster rocket. I'll be pitching that to them soon. :biggrin:

[aceyx]

ah, the ever-famous k55 hurricane. i have a brochure from rdsport from about 4 years ago featuring that beast of a car.

IIRC, it's a $96,000 conversion plus the cost of a stock ti. another thing i didn't really find that appealing was the center console (moved to the center, with digital instruments).


wicked cool, but give me an aprilia mille factory over that anyday. heck, i could probably buy an RS3 cube with that much green.