20-05-2025
A US tuner has built a 1,000bhp V8 E30 BMW, and you must hear it immediately
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TG meets Cory Mullenaux's wild, LS-equipped BMW and holds on tight
9 minutes 13 seconds
California, as Tupac confirmed back in the Nineties, knows how to party. And there ain't no party like a twin-turbo LS V8-swapped E30 BMW party. Welcome to the wildest old Bimmer you'll ever likely see.
It's the work of Long Beach's Cody Mullenaux, a man who started out as a truck driver, before graduating to owning a trucking business, before graduating to selling it all off so he could build his dream car.
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A dream that takes the classic E30, outfits it with a tubular chassis, and then fills it full of front-mid-engined turbocharged American V8 fury. A thousand horses worth of LS fury, by the way.
After a few quite literal false starts, Top Gear's tuning correspondent Rob Dahm gets to grips with this immaculate, incredible build. Want to hear what a twin-turbo, 1,000bhp+ LS V8-swapped E30 BMW party sounds like? Keep it rockin'… You might like
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