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    Posted: 28-December-2004 at 21:49
Have a look at this, not one to floor on a wet road methinks..

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-December-2004 at 06:11

Blimey....Rhys is this your next mod

would not like to meet that i a dark alley

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-December-2004 at 06:51
Originally posted by david328icab david328icab wrote:

Blimey....Rhys is this your next mod


would not like to meet that i a dark alley



..did cross my mind when I saw the engine in a 7 series at Jayson's (chippeduk) house. A nice Alpina V12 5 litre, and he said it would fit.

Not likely to do anything to mine tho' except put a big bore throttle body on when it arrives to compliment the chip.

Like the idea of putting an E30 M3 rear end on tho.. hmmm
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-December-2004 at 13:17

sorry guys but , 420 brake horse power out of a 5.4 litre v12  is a bit ,, dare i say it  ,,,  pathetic  . i was expecting to see somewhere around 5 or 6 hundred  .  also the torque figure isnt exactly mind blowing for a modded v12 either . 

 there are 2 litre , 4 cylinder  16v engines producing twice the power of that with less weight to carry . it all makes me wonder why they bothered

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-December-2004 at 14:50

it isnt the best.

a chipped v12 will give close too 385hp and that costs less than 150 quid.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-December-2004 at 18:40
Well. all I can say is it's an American site, they tend to be restricted over there.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-December-2004 at 02:17
Well i guess the point was to say 'look! we put a V12 in a compact'. I believe Hamann (sp?) put one in an E36 first though
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-December-2004 at 03:18

i dint think about that :(

yes, the us cars are well restricted so in this case it is very good.

either way, into a compact it is a great achievement as space is at a premium.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-December-2004 at 04:42
I might try putting a hummer v8 in my 328 then :o)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-December-2004 at 19:36
You can bung any E36 engine into a compact, it's only the back end thats different (about 9" shorter and E30 rear suspension) A lot over there put M3 engines in. Mmmm nice..

I think someone put a Chevy V8 in one over there as well, tho' with the restrictions, the HP wasnt fantastic. I think they have emition restrictions as well. IIRC M3's etc, have a lower bhp output over there.

Now I wonder if a certain BMW engine would fit, say from a McClaren F1? ..nah, that's just being daft
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-January-2005 at 06:57
Hmmm what about the McLaren V12 into the front of a Z3. Make sure it has nice open trumpets and hole in bonnet then drive everywhere with the room down :D
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-January-2005 at 08:27
I saw the m3 with a cossie engine......although I think it to be a disgrace
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-January-2005 at 09:52
Originally posted by daddy cool daddy cool wrote:

sorry guys but , 420 brake horse power out of a 5.4 litre v12  is a bit ,, dare i say it  ,,,  pathetic  . i was expecting to see somewhere around 5 or 6 hundred  .  also the torque figure isnt exactly mind blowing for a modded v12 either . 

 there are 2 litre , 4 cylinder  16v engines producing twice the power of that with less weight to carry . it all makes me wonder why they bothered

I know it must feel really slow with only 420bhp.  Big Smile

It may not be as much as is possible from such a big motor but it is still more than enough. Sure they could have put a tuned cossie lump in and got the same power but it's a bit different insn't it. After all I bet it sounds awsome.

It doesn't always have to be about how much power, sometimes it's how you get there that makes it more interesting. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-January-2005 at 10:03
but all the effort and money involved in creating a hot car only to end up with something luke warm  .  i also wonder what it handles like with all the extra weight in the front  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-January-2005 at 15:54
biggrin1 Luke warm?!!? 420bhp in a car that weighs less than 1400kg is hardly luke warm. Thats almost TVR power to weight and you wouldn't describe them as lukewarm.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-January-2005 at 15:52

it will weigh a damn site more than 1400kg with a v12  slapped in the front of it .  i bet the engine and box weigh nearly half that on their own .

 my personal opinion is , considering the amount of work thats gone into the engineering of something that could have been mind blowing , its a bit of a let down..

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-January-2005 at 03:38

The standard 318ti compact weighs 1175kg. I would have thought that the V12 wouldn't weigh more than 200kg more than the 1.8. I could be wrong though.

I think it's great what they have done. OK it could have been more powerful but there may be some component in the gearbox/drive train which won't take much more power. I would have thought that the chassis would struggle with much more power.

This kind of thing is more of a demonstration of what is possible and a bit of advertising for the company.

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