Pic Heavy: My project build, BMW V8 Tbucket

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Let's see if I can keep a long story short; A few years ago I owned a car( BMW E34 540i/6), I took said car down the drag strip, my "fast" car was painfully slow. I started building another engine, larger displacement with a supercharger for the car. Once the engine was complete I decided to build an entirely different car around the engine.

While assembling the 90's BMW V8 I fell in love with the engines architecture. It's from an era before engineers lost their **** minds. It was a simple design that just clicked in my head yet exotic enough to be interesting. Mind you this is pre- variable cam timing, pre- variable runner length, pre-obdII. So, simple.


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The supercharger is an Eaton M112 from a late 90's Jaguar on adapters to bolt to the BMW heads

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For the techie nerdy specs: The engine is considered a M60B44 hybrid. It's a non-vanos M62B44 4.4L short block with earlier M60B40 4.0L heads, cams and double chain timing set up. The intake and exhaust cams have been swapped to have a 241 intake/249 exhaust duration, with a 110 ICL and 112LSA. By my CC'ing and measuring I've come up with roughly 9.6:1 static compression and I'm capping the boost around 10-12psi. The nitrous was simply to aid in IAT cooling, there is a nitrous spray bar on the front supercharger heat exchanger and the two stages at the fogger are 60hp and 120hp. The fuel injection controller adds the 'wet' part by increasing injector pulsewidth while nitrous is active.

The 6 speed manual transmission is from the original donor car, the 90's BMW 5 series. The rear end is a 70's Jaguar IRS

I'm aiming for 450hp without the nitrous and a curb weight of 1800lbs-ish.

The engine management is an open source DIY Arduino based standalone fuel injection controller called Speeduino, it runs the V8 in paired cylinder injection and waste spark.

Video of the first ever fire up (coincidentally exactly 1 year ago today from making this post):



Recent vid, with the pipes & mufflers on:




This project has been roughly three years in the works. Although it doesn't move under it's own power yet, it is scheduled for it's first registered drag race at the end of Oct '21 for the Kingman Az Street Drags. You'll notice the rear tires change part way through, that was in hopes of getting into the 'Hot Rod' class for the Street Drags rather then the 'Pro-street' class, which this car is most definitely not.

The goal is to get the vehicle on the road ASAP to begin the long tedious process of tuning, shake down and addressing every gremlin and glitch along the way.

Thanks for checking out my project. Let me know whatcha think. -Mykk
 
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EXCELLENT!!!!! YOU are surely very talented!! its great to see something unique + different. although modern stuff works well it lacks personality, + i find restomods + cars like yours the best, + your DIY saves $$$ + satisfies, the great thing about DIY. looking forward to future updates!!
 
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