It seems a little weird to even click on something containing the name TJ Fahrzeugdes but if you’re one of the curious folk, you’ll find out something that is almost legendary.

The car we’re talking about this time is a E82 BMW 1 Series. It starts out in life as a humble compact coupe and it is turned into something simply crazy.

It receives a BMW 1 Series M Coupe conversion. Just about every single visual component that would make such a product stand out goes on.

That’s fun, but is it enough to feel special when you’ve got a 1.6 liter naturally aspirated four cylinder engine to drive around in?

No, which is why TJ Fahrzeugdes decided to do an engine swap. Boy did he pick one, he used the 5.0 liter V10 powerplant from the E60 M5.

With a standard tune, that engine developed 507 horsepower and 380 lb-ft of torque. At this point the ECU was fiddled with and another 43 horsepower was added, just to round things off.

Now that they had the power, they had a lot of work to do in trying to make it usable. The gearbox was also taken from the E60 M5. The driveshaft was shortened.

The suspension was entirely redone by the specialists at KW and the brakes come off the much bigger BMW X6M. Sounds like a fascinating conversion with only one thing nagging me.

Is this still a balanced car or did the enormous engine compromise weight distribution.

As seen on Bimmertoday

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The E30 and E36 are still the most crowd pleasing models they ever made. The first of which really suffers for its age due to a relatively small engine.

If you’re one to love styling and looks but don’t want to settle for measly power, you’re certainly going to be following this example of tuning from the Netherlands.

In keeping the sleeper feel, the exterior of the E30 3 Series remains almost untouched. The only thing they updated is the alloy wheel set.

The wheels appear to come from a E46 M3 but they are needed in order to cover the brakes of the E36 325i this car uses. More swapped bits come into the equation later on.

Nobody’s telling us where the upgraded rear differential came from but the radiator is also from the E36, albeit the 324td model and so do the leather seats.

All of these updates are there to prepare us from the main courses. The typical miniature four cylinder engine is replaced by a massive 4.4 liter V8 engine from the E39 BMW 540i.

The new engine swap in this interesting tuning example produces 286 horsepower and it uses a six speed manual gearbox, also from the E39 but this time it’s the 535i unit.

It may be a bit of a Frankenstein creation but as the bits come from some interesting BMW models and have been designed to easily take the stress.

As seen on autoblog.nl

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First of all, it’s a good time to appreciate the E92 M3 in its standard trim with all its naturally aspirated cylinders in shape.

There’s quite a bit of fun to be had in considering the tuned up versions of the BMW M3, particularly this one made by Dinan tuning.

Unlike most interesting versions of the tuned E92 BMW M3 options so far, this one isn’t really easy to predict what’s going on under the bonnet.

Instead of a turbocharger, supercharger, ECU tune or other relatively minute tweaks like that. Dinan actually went on to give the M3 an engine swap.

The new powerplant is borrowed from its big brother, it’s the previous M5’s 5 liter V10 engine. Oh and they haven’t really left it standard.

It was bored out to 5.7 liters and it now develops 628 horsepower. That’s right folks, they’ve managed to put 10% more power than the current BMW M5 in the current BMW M3.

Alongside the added power, Dinan have decided to make sure the E92 BMW M3 can handle it. The chassis will easily take it but there’s still the question of balance.

That intrinsic BMW feeling will most likely be retained as the emphasis on losing weight from the front end and they’re struggling to keep it as close to 50-50 as possible.

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