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BangShift Project Files: A Supercharged BMW-Powered T-bucket On Spray!


BangShift Project Files: A Supercharged BMW-Powered T-bucket On Spray!

Earlier this year, we featured a project BMW 540i that Forum member “Mykk” was building as part of our $5,000 Challenge. Over the scope of that layout was a gem that was in the works for the car at the time: a 4.4L BMW V8 that was supercharged using parts from a Jaguar, including an Eaton M112 supercharger and intercooler. Apparently, somewhere along the way this year he has had a change of plan involving the engine and instead of making a wicked 5-series Beemer, the BMW mill is now destined for a T-bucket build. Using a Speedway Motors tub and a ’32 Ford repop grille shell, the overall build of the hot rod looks great: Jaguar IRS, Getrag six-speed manual, two stages of dry nitrous, and more. For any and everyone who crows on about GM engines taking over the world, here’s your savior.  The plan for the car is to build it slowly and properly, because Mykk wants to do plenty with this car. We’re not just talking the occasional drag strip blast, we’re talking daily-driver stuff. We’re talking a California Highway 1 trip. We’re talking leaving anyone on the roads in Northern Arizona jaw-dropped as they see a body shell that’s about 100 years old in design sporting German V8 power instead of a Ford small-block, GM engine, or Hemi. We’re talking the right kind of hot-rodding, where you actually hit the road and drive your shit.

BangShift Project Files: Supercharged BMW-Powered T-Bucket on Nitrous


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2 thoughts on “BangShift Project Files: A Supercharged BMW-Powered T-bucket On Spray!

  1. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    This is what happens when a car builder uses his imagination – not an LS in sight! Some fine V8s come out of Europe and the UK and are light years in advance and power delivery of their American cousins and some even come with turbos and superchargers as standard.

    So well done – but can somebody explain to me why there is an independently sprung rear end behind a bean axled front end? I could never get my head round this in the 1970s and it still mystifies me today.

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