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what is it?

I would guess it's an E30 Touring, fitted with a 4 or 4.6 litre V8. Mike.

Mmmmm juicy.

There was a guy on the SD1 Forum fitting a 3.5 V8 to his E36. Is this sort of conversion becoming more common? Are BMW engines that expensive?

BTW I've got a spare 3.5 on Ebay at the moment. I'll give you 10% off if you win it :)

I don't think it's to do with expense as much as complication. The M60 BMW V8 is a bloody good engine, but it's full of complicated bits the Rover doesn't bother with and there are a lot of dead Nikasil ones about. Shoving a mildly warmed over Rover lump in seems to be the way forward.

Oooh, ta, but to be honest I've bought the engine mounts and bits of other stuff to throw an M60 into the E30 (they cost more than a Rover lump) so I'll be sticking with the original plan. I have a good friend who works for Land Rover doing development work who's trying to snaffle a cheap M60 from an early L322 Rangie for me.

That was one of the least interesting videos I've ever seen :-) And what is it?

I take it you've got no sound then?

I have, but it's a Photobucket .flv - the sound quality is totally BOSE, and there is cars driving past sound then 1 seconds of rev, small wheelspin and end?

Sorry but it's just not floating my boat, try find a drive by where it's going well fast :-)

Wow after 30 seconds it had done all of 7 yards!

Heh, I can hear it rather well for about 30 seconds, and it sounds gloriously V8.

bah now THIS is a conversion! course i'd do it if it wasn't for my dodgy wheel bearing holding me back lol

A much better vid :-)

Haha I was just thinking 'stick a Corvette engine in and be done with it', and what turns up...

I've got a TPI Corvette lump, but it's about 400x the weight of the Rover motor...

New ones are all quad cammery and alloy.

Nope found a better breakdown... They are supercharged instead and make 100 bhp per litre (600 plus bhp) and are alloy. Expect one in 2009... And in a corvette they go 200 plus mph...

A vid. On second thought you should leave the engine in the corvette and just get that.

At 2 dollars to the pound you can import one cheap too.

It's only about $1.75 to the £ at the moment, the £ fell sharply against the dollar about a week ago.