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TThe March issue means two things: firstly,

winter is almost over and spring is right around the corner, so we’re well on our way

to warmer weather and maybe even a little bit of sun Secondly, it means that the Car

of the Year results are in! As always, it was

a hotly-contested battle for the top spot and you guys were certainly keen to show your support for your favourite cars There were

a few surprises in terms of how you voted, but it’s all good and I love to see exactly what you guys like and just how varied your tastes are This year I also added an Editor’s Choice award because I wanted to show my love for my own personal favourite feature car of the year You can see what I chose and check out the full results starting

on p50

I know it’s too early to start thinking about Car of the Year 2019 just yet, but I reckon we’ve already got some seriously strong contenders on our hands Take our cover car for example – this fully restored classic is one of the finest E28s anywhere

in the world We love the way it looks, we love the way it sits and we love everything about it It’s a real beauty and just the perfect modded classic We’ve also got a

FIRST WORDS

COVER PHOTOGRAPHY:

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couple of absolutely outrageous machines

in this issue; first up there’s the 1014whp twincharged E36 – which might just be one

of the most menacing machines we’ve ever featured – running a totally insane home brew combo of supercharger and turbo and

we love it The second is an outrageous, 1400hp RB26-powered 4WD Z4 drag car with a custom carbon and fibreglass wide-body, and it’s really quite unlike we’ve ever featured before Magnificent madness If that’s all a bit much for you then we’ve also got a super-clean E30 Cab running an M52 swap, a seriously tasty air-ride E46 M3 and that’s just scratching the surface of another

jam-packed issue of PBMW.

Looking ahead to next month, we’ll be bringing you our 2019 events guide, making sure you know about the biggest and best shows in the UK, Europe and beyond, and among our selection of modded machinery

we will be featuring an absolutely awesome M4 that will make you very happy indeed

So, let this issue help you power through a drab and dreary February and I’ll see you next month!

Elizabeth de Latour, Editor

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1014whp twincharged E36

THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER

Harrop supercharged E92 M3

SCENE-STEALER

2.8 M52-swapped E30 Cab

WHERE THE WILD

THINGS ARE

1400hp RB26 4WD Z4

Air-ride E46 M3

Restored and custom-modded E28

Words: Elizabeth de Latour Photos: Matt Richardson

With an M52 swap, stunning custom interior and plenty

of unique touches, in a scene packed with modded

E30s this head-turning cab really stands out

SCENE-ST EALER

T he E30 will never go out of

style, it’s a simple fact It’s now 2019, a brand new year, and here we are writing about

a car that came out 30 years ago That’s kind of incredible but tells you all you need to know about the amazing staying power and limitless appeal of the

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cars, and the younger generation loves it because it’s just so cool and there’s almost

no limit to what can be done with it And, for those on a little bit of a budget, BM’s older offerings are so good-looking that you need very few mods to just enhance them by the perfect amount and to make

them instantly individual and yours

It is therefore very easy to understand why Vas Ahmed was drawn to his E30, but this is a build that has a lot more going for it than mere good looks and there is

in fact a lot more to this car than initially meets the eye “I’ve always been into cars,”

he tells us as we start to chat “Since I was 11 or 12 my dad used to buy salvage cars and fix them up and my family has always been a BMW one,” and growing up around cars clearly rubbed off on him in very much the right way as evidenced by the machines he’s owned over the years

E30 When it was launched it set the bar so high for the mid-size exec sector that rivals have been playing catch-up ever since and

it became arguably the symbol for success

in the ’80s Best of all, now it’s arguably

a car that appeals to everyone on the scene – the older generation of modders love it because it reminds them of when

“ I tried to get hold of

an S50 first but they are

hard to come by and then

I saw other people running

the M52B28 swap – it

looked clean and I liked

the idea of this swap

so I went for it ”

M52 2.8 E30 Cab

ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION

2.8-litre straight-six M52B28, carbon intake, M50

intake manifold, E30 M3 Scorpion stainless steel

exhaust M42 five-speed gearbox, Z4 2.5

short-shift, 3.91 LSD

CHASSIS

8x17” (front) and 9x17” (rear) OZ Futura wheels

with 205/40 (front and rear) Hankook Ventus Sport

K104 tyres, five-stud conversion using E36 front

struts, hubs and wishbones and E36 318ti rear

arms, Air Lift Performance 3H air-ride, E36 M3

Full retrim in cream leather with blue piping,

leather dash retrim, custom steering wheel,

Pioneer head unit, Pioneer component speakers,

Phoenix Gold five-channel amp, 12” Rockford

Fosgate sub, air tank, Viair compressor

THANKS

My brother Naeem, my friends Reggie, Kawsa

and Jay, all these people helped with the build

along with many others

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“My first car was an Escort and as far as

BMs go I’ve owned an E36 M3 Evo Cab,

an E46 M3 Cab and six E30 Cabs, the first

of which was a Zender-kitted Birds car…”

so it’s fair to say that Vas is a bit of an E30

addict and knowing that it’s not all too

surprising that he’s ended up with another

one “I bought my first E30 when I first

bought my garage – my brother-in-law had

E30s, I saw them, liked them and wanted

one for myself,” he says and while that was

some time ago now, Vas’ passion for E30s

has not waned one bit over the years and,

if anything, getting involved in the scene

with this project may have ramped it up

even further

“I bought this one in August 2016,”

explains Vas; “I fancied one at the time

and spent a long time looking for the right

one,” and his efforts paid off when he

picked up this tidy 320i “I spent about six

months looking for the right car before

I came across this one It was about 90% rust-free and I wasn’t interested in

a facelift, it was all about the chromies for me,” he grins Initially he had pretty much no plans for it, adding an M Tech

2 kit and a set of BBS reps but then he discovered the show scene and things quickly spiralled out of control “I saw Faz’s Calypso E30 Cab and I loved it, it was one of the main inspirations for my whole build”, smiles Vas, “but I didn’t know what air-ride was, I was a real show scene virgin.” You’d never know that based

on what he’s built, though, and rather than just running in head first, he took his time

to do his research and build his perfect E30 “The first thing I did was re-fitted the Tech 1 kit – I couldn’t get rid of the chrome, there are not many chromies out there so I had to preserve it,” he smiles

“The next step was to strip the car back to almost bare metal and give it a respray in

its original colour, Royal blue,” and with the car looking perfect he could now crack

on with the rest of the mods

The next step for Vas was wheels, so he ditched the BBS reps and started hunting for something more becoming, but sticking

to the stock four-stud configuration would have seriously limited his potential wheel selection He therefore carried out a five-stud conversion, with E36 M3 Evo components up front and an E36 318ti setup at the rear, and then he could start shopping for his perfect wheels “I added a set of refurbed BBS RCs [aka Style 5s] and then got the 17” OZ Futuras I’m running now I saw them on @friedporkchopE30’s car and really liked them so I got my hands

on a set; I built them up myself, painted the centres, polished the lips and then sealed them,” and the Futuras are a great choice of wheel for the E30 It’s a car that can pull off just about any style of wheels

Tidy boot install for the air and audio componentsCarbon intake and

M50 manifold

and while the default choice for most

people is a classic cross-spoke, bucking

that trend with a simple five-spoke design

is good to see We love the soft contours

of the spokes on the Futuras, the subtle

flaring at the end of each one, those classic

centre caps and, as 17s – quite possibly the

perfect size choice for the E30 – with those

elegant silver centres and deep polished

lips, they just look awesome, especially

when combined with the air-ride

Having taken inspiration from Faz’s car

and keen to embrace the scene, air was

always going to be on Vas’ shopping list

and he has no regrets “I went for an Air

Lift Performance 3H setup with a single

tank and single Viair compressor and I am

100% happy with air It drove really badly

before when I just had it on springs but

it feels so much better now, plus I can go

anywhere without having to worry about

speed humps or anything like that,” he

says In addition to that Vas has also had

his suspension fully poly bushed in order

to get the chassis feeling nice and tight

He’s also taken full advantage of the stud setup his E30 is now running and has fitted a set of E36 M3 Evo brakes up front for a significant increase in stopping power, and he needs it as this E30 isn’t just about aesthetics, there’s something tasty tucked beneath that bonnet too

five-While the 320i is absolutely fine, powered as it is by one of BM’s characterful M20 straight-sixes, Vas found

it lacking in shove so something had to be done and that something was an engine swap “I tried to get hold of an S50 first but they are hard to come by, and then

I saw other people running the M52B28 swap – it looked clean and I liked the idea

of this swap so I went for it The engine was cheap but all the other parts were expensive,” winces Vas, but no pain, no gain and while his wallet may have taken

a little bit of a bashing, the end result was well worth it The M52 has been equipped with a custom loom and exhaust manifolds from Dan at BM Conversions UK (DanThe

on the E30 Zone forum), along with a

full E30 M3 Scorpion exhaust, an M42 gearbox running a Z4 2.5 short-shift and,

at the back, a 3.91 LSD It’s a mighty fine combination of engine and accompanying mods and, most impressive of all, is the fact that Vas fitted the engine, gearbox and everything himself – in fact he’s done every single mod you can see on the car, so this

is most definitely one project that has been built, not bought

All this adds up to a comprehensive build but there’s plenty more to enjoy here One of the most controversial aspects

of the car is without doubt the square headlight setup, as the original round headlights have such universal appeal, but we have to say that we admire Vas’ willingness to walk his own path with this build “I saw these for sale on eBay and I wanted to be different so I bought them,” he says and we’re glad he did as they give this E30 a different look that makes it stand out even more What

makes this car really stand out, though,

is that stunning interior and it’s actually the reason why Vas bought this particular car, as it had just been done and it looks fantastic You’ve got acres of cream leather with gorgeous dark blue piping and it

is the perfect colour combo to go with the rich, deep, dark blue bodywork, and then there are additional touches like the cream gear gaiter and the entire dash has also been covered in leather, making this interior particularly lush Vas has added

a custom wood-rimmed Nardi steering wheel complete with Alcantara centre section along with some audio upgrades, with Pioneer components and head unit, a Phoenix Gold amp and a Rockford Fosgate sub, all housed in a tidy boot build.For a first show build, this is an exceptional E30 that has been enhanced with a particularly fine selection of mods across the board Vas has put in a lot of effort and approached everything with a keen eye for attention to detail in his quest

to build his perfect E30, and the results speak for themselves But Vas isn’t done with it just yet… “I have lots of plans for it,” he says with a grin “I’ve changed to

a set of Schnitzer wheels since the shoot and have redone the boot build with twin 12” subs, and I’m thinking of maybe fitting

a different engine I’ve started working on

it for this season” he says so we’re going

to have to wait and see where Vas takes his E30 next but one thing is for sure, it’s never going to be for sale “I built this for

my son,” he smiles, “he loves it and he will get it after me so it’s going to stay in the family,” and so another BMW family is created, with this lovely E30 at its centre ●

Scorpion E30 M3 exhaust system

Custom-finished

17” OZ Futuras

Square headlights really make this E30 stand out

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ne of our favourite wagon’s to

join us here at MStyle Joe

came to us all the way from the

south coast after seeing that we

also do exhaust conversions

So Joe, why the F31?

Practicality Well I’ve always

gone for BMW, my Dad got me

into them as he owned a Phoenix

Yellow E46 M3 convertible I’ve

had an F36 and prior to that an

E60, but I went over to the F31 as

the saloon wouldn’t fit our dog in

the back

What’s it like to drive as a daily?

It’s had a stage one remap so it’s running 310hp and 640 ft/lbs of torque Power delivery is really smooth – the ease of getting up

to cruising speeds is effortless and the comfort is what makes this car, so it’s a great all-rounder and ticks all the boxes for me

So you’ve had quite a few things from us – the carbon splitter, diffuser, eyebrows, wing mirrors as well as the 340i style conversion

It’s looking great so far Do you have any further plans for the car

or is this it?

I don’t think I will ever be finished (Haha) Spoken like every car enthusiast out there!

Well I’m looking at your carbon roof spoiler and the wings Also thinking about powder coating the wheels to satin black and potentially wrapping San Marino Blue or a pearl orange, but so far I’m very happy with the results Thanks for coming all the way up

to us Joe and happy motoring!

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that looks absolutely sensational and really gives the M5 some serious road

presence The perfect partner for the diffuser is 3D Design’s boot lip spoiler,

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CA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL CUSTOM CARBON TRIM

We all love carbon, it’s just so sexy and if you’ve got carbon on the outside of your BM then carbon trim is the perfect accompaniment, but when everyone’s got carbon how do you make your interior stand out? Well CA Technologies International has the answer in the shape of its custom, hand-made carbon interior trim range Now, you might be wondering just how much more special carbon can be but take a look at the pictures of the red/black weave combo on these trims, made for an E36 M3 and designed to replicate the look of the trims from E36 M3 GT Imola Individual, and you can see just what can be achieved Whatever carbon colour combo you’d like, CA Technologies can make it happen, allowing you to design a truly bespoke trim set for you BM As all trims are made

to order, prices will vary depending on the extent of the trims and details chosen

so get in touch with CA to discuss your requirements

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in handy and Sealey’s latest LED offering is just what you need It features a 5W

CREE XPG LED spotlight with adjustable inclination, a dimmer switch allows the

brightness to be adjusted from 20% to 100%, focus adjustment from spotlight

to wide-angled beam and both the main light and rear red warning light can be

individually switched between on, off and flash function The HT107R has an

adjustable headband and foam brow for added comfort It is supplied with a USB

cable for a micro USB charging port and contains a rechargeable 3.7V 2.2Ah

Lithium-ion battery Best of all it’s currently available with 33% off in Sealey’s

When you’re hunting for more power on a turbo engine, cooling is essential

and Forge Motorsport’s new PolarCooler for the M3 and M4 has been designed

to keep intake temperatures as low as possible The PolarCooler radiator

is an auxiliary cooler that works in conjunction with the stock chargecooler

heat exchanger, adding an additional level of cooling for the fluid in the

cooling circuit It can be used as a standalone upgrade, or in conjunction with

Forge Motorsport’s chargecooler upgrade, to really feel the benefits of the

545mmx460mmx32mm core with both improved surface and core volume If

you’re pushing power beyond a simple remap and are after serious performance

then the PolarCooler is definitely a worthwhile upgrade for your M3 or M4

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Words: Elizabeth de Latour Photos: Si Gray

Fully restored and brought up to stunning show standard

with countless unique touches, this immaculate E28

is a truly magnificent machine.

BEYOND RETRO

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character, classic BMWs

have it in spades – while

the newer models

are without doubt

better cars in absolute terms, they lack

the boundless charm and appeal of the

classics Take the E28, for example – the

second-gen 5 Series is so utterly charming

that you can’t help but fall for it, and it

offers all the classic BMW styling elements

that we’re such suckers for If you want a

retro BM that isn’t a 3 Series, the E28 is an

irresistible choice; just ask Rob Goodwin

(@st4rk3y) – his burgundy beauty has

been going down a storm on the UK scene and with good reason, as this stunning machine has got to be one of the finest E28 examples anywhere

“As soon as I got away from Fords (at about 22) I went straight to BMW, but dad always had BMWs and American muscle

so it all started about 30 years ago (the original age of the sharknose),” says Rob

as we peruse his motoring history “I’m not telling you my first car but my first BM was

an E21 back in the day – showing my age!”

he chuckles “It was a 1980 323i in white and I lowered it on Alpina wheels, fitted Kamei front and rear spoilers, furry dice

and rosary beads Since then I’ve had an E30 325i Sport, then my dad’s E28, which I lowered on BBS rims and fitted with front and rear spoilers (oh and all of them had Pioneer stereos, graphic equalisers and three-way parcel shelf speakers) Then I went to the dark side and got myself a VW Mk3 VR6, did an engine rebuild from 2.8

to 2.9 with a gas-flowed head, the usual add-on air filters, stainless steel exhaust blah blah blah Then the world went real dark,” he says, his jovial mood changing

“Had a motorbike crash in 2010, busted everything, nearly died, nearly never walked again Life-changing experience,” but he didn’t let it stop him from enjoying his modified cars “I then had an Audi B6 A4 – Rotiform had just started, Air Lift had just started and a very good friend of mine, at what was G-Werks, said let’s do this, so we built a show winner and a magazine

feature car, one of the first B6s in the UK

on air-ride Then I had a slammed Beetle,

then modified a B7 RS4 and then went nah,

back to BMW for me,” he grins, “so I got

myself this E28 525e

“When I was younger, dad had two or

three E28s and it was the last car I had

real fun with him in before he sadly got

ill and passed away in 2004 I mentioned

earlier he also had American muscle

cars – I did not have the time or money

so I thought get the E28 and paint it the

Mustang colour, so I did,” he smiles.” I

purchased the car from a mate of a mate

after scanning the ads for a fair while,

looking for something that would be good

enough for me to invest in I bought the

car late 2015 and until Jan 2017 tried my

hardest to kill it – drove it like a nutter,

pushed it hard, slid it about, bumped into a

few things It never died,” he laughs “The car had proved to me that it was worth investment (I did have a gearbox rebuild as she was a little noisy by the time I finished throwing her about),” and that meant that Rob could crack on with his plans, which were plentiful and very thorough

“I wanted to do the full restoration with

a modern twist Again, at the time there were only a few E28s in the UK and Europe and that had really given me the itch, but nothing in the colour I wanted to own so I decided to build one,” he says, and here we are

It has been quite a journey but every journey must start somewhere and, for Rob and his E28, it began with gathering all his resources together “I bought every trim, rubber, nut and bolt I could get my hands on as soon as I bought the

“ It’s the best interior I could have hoped for and I kept it retro

with leather and vinyl and the smell was perfect 1987,

as if it had come out of the showroom ”

E28; doing up a classic is not like doing

a modern car, parts don’t just come the-shelf,” he says and he’s not wrong, a classic restoration takes time and requires commitment “I suppose the first serious thing I bought was the wheels A man known for his skills and BMW builds in the US was selling the BBS RSs to clear out and make space for his next project; I spotted them on IG and we started talking and, boom, before I knew it they were being delivered They were second-hand and needed a refurb, so without hesitation were collected by my mate Indy Virk and driven off to Stefan at Puc Polish in Belgium for a full ceramic polish.” The end result is nothing short of spectacular and the RSs look simply sensational on the E28 – the fully-polished finish is just stunning and, as per Rob’s preference, they’ve got

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Nardi woodensteering wheel, leather-trimmed lower dashand chocolate carpets

Tan leather and trimmed seats

vinyl-Wood effect hydro-dipped selector trim

slant rather than stepped lips; “I had done

the whole stepped lip thing on the Audis

and needed a change,” he says and this

was definitely the right direction to go in

With the wheels ready, Rob gathered up

the rest of what he needed to get his E28

project off the ground “I went to the only

place to shop for Air Lift and sounds that

looks after you and saw my mate Parm at

Car Audio Security and bought everything

there, then went off to the Install Company

to see the magician that is Phil, Jon and Mike at JC WeldFab and Bruce at WRP Paint and Restoration (all round good old Northampton way),” he grins In terms of suspension, there was never any question about which direction Rob was going

to take the E28; “Full air-ride with 3P management is what I wanted It had to have air as I wanted the E28 on the floor,”

he grins “I had to do some homework, and Phil came up with the final plan to get the drop right and ensure the rake was good, and it’s running Mk6 Golf bags on the front and universal ones on the rears

Did that come out bang-on!” he grins and he’s not wrong E28s on air always look fantastic and Rob’s example is no different, and going the extra mile to get it sitting perfectly when aired-out has paid off massively as it delivers some serious visual drama, with the front portion of the car’s underside actually touching the ground and those RSs tucking perfectly

Most of the work on this project has been put into the restoration side of things and the result is that this is easily one of the cleanest examples of an E28 you’re likely to find anywhere The car was completely stripped, with the entire interior and engine being removed, and the body taken back to bare metal from the coach line down; all the rust was removed, the underside was stripped and welded, and the floors, seals, front wings, rear arches, driver’s door and front valance were all replaced That’s no small undertaking but Rob is a guy who believes

E28 525e

ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION

2.7-litre straight-six M20B27, rebuilt to factory

spec, custom JC WeldFab radiator, stainless steel

expansion talk and water tank, custom

straight-through stainless steel exhaust system Restored

four-speed automatic gearbox

CHASSIS

9x17” (front) and 10x17” (rear) BBS RS wheels,

fully ceramic-polished with 2” (front) and 3” (rear)

slant lips, SRR Hardware bolts, BBS hex caps, Air

Lift Performance 3P air-ride, rear arches pulled

10mm, CAtuned camber and toe adjusters

EXTERIOR

Full respray in Calypso red, bare metal strip

down from coach line, front wings, rear arches,

driver’s door and front valance replaced, all

new chrome, roundels, badges, Euro bumpers

re-chromed, new glass all-round, all rubbers and

seals replaced, custom E28 rear badge, custom

C-pillar roundels

INTERIOR

Seats retrimmed in tan leather with perforated

shell tan vinyl centres, tan leather and vinyl door

cards, lower dash and centre console trimmed

in leather, pillars, parcel shelf and sun visors all

trimmed to match, deep pile chocolate carpets

and matching mats with tan piping, charcoal

headlining, Nardi wooden steering wheel, gear

selector cover hydro-dipped in wood effect,

Pioneer head unit, Rockford Fosgate amp, custom

boot build with wooden ’80s-style valve amp

tribute, hidden Rockford Fosgate slimline T1S2

carbon subwoofer, twin Viair 444c compressors,

seamless chrome tanks, copper hard lines

THANKS

The list is long but I have to start with my

amazing wife, Karen, as the car parts lived in the

spare room for at least two years – love ya babe

Then the boys, Indy Virk for the trip to Belgium,

Stefan at Puc Polish for the ceramic polish, Parm

at Car Audio Security for just being the main man

for all my air ride and sound needs (as always),

Jon, Mike and dean at JC WeldFab – amazing

guys and fabricators/welders, Phil (the legend)

owner of The Install Company, Bruce owner of

9 Yard Customs (the magical spraying doughnut

man), Jo Clarke my good friend at Trim Deluxe

for his unreal skills on the interior, Russell at

Ultimate Windscreens, Tommy and Dale, Nathan

at Meguiar’s UK for all the love and help and

their friendship, always there for me, amazing

products kept my baby absolutely mint, there

is probably more, you know who you are, thank

line down ”

Custom boot build isjust sensational

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in doing things right first time and, as

he says, “I had a plan and never looked back.” The car was then resprayed in BMW Calypso red and then all new chrome, roundels and badges were fitted, the Euro bumpers were re-chromed and re-fitted along with new glass all-round and every bit of rubber or seal you can see on the car is new This gives you an idea of just how exhaustive the restoration has been, but it was all worth it and letting the E28’s natural beauty shine through was without doubt the right decision

to make

Rob applied the same approach when it came to the engine and while the 2.7 eta engine hasn’t been touched as far as power

is concerned, it’s had plenty of attention in terms of getting it running at peak performance “The engine was fully restored with a JC WeldFab radiator, expansion tank and water tank made up for me in stainless

steel Every belt, gasket, nut and bolt I

could replace was replaced to high spec

I also fitted a straight-through bespoke

stainless steel exhaust with twin 2” tips,

built by the TIG-master himself, JC, and it’s

fully polished, of course,” he says

The interior, however, has undergone

quite a transformation and, when it came

to choosing the colour, Rob had a rather

unique approach to proceedings… “I drove

about with a blue door card (the original

colour as the car was silver), a white door

card, a light grey door card and a tan door

card,” he grins “I got in the car every day

and marked on a piece of paper which

one I liked best for a month, and the tan

won I then went to see my mate Jo at

Trim Deluxe to tell him to order the tan

and in the shop he had some vinyl that

just bowled me over It just reminded me

of the Singer Porsche so off to Google we

went, got a few ideas and the interior was

born… It’s the best interior I could have

hoped for and I kept it retro with leather

and vinyl and the smell was perfect 1987,

as if it had come out of the showroom,”

he beams The interior is truly stunning, a

sea of rich tan that works so well with the

Calypso exterior and the attention to detail

is exceptional, with chocolate carpets and

mats with tan piping, leather all along the

lower dash and that classic Nardi steering

wheel And if you think the interior is

impressive, the boot build takes things to

another level, with acres of tan trim, twin

polished tanks and copper hardlines that

look like they’ve come from a still and

then there’s that magnificent centrepiece,

an incredibly detailed custom wooden

’80s valve amp tribute, complete with

Goodwins branding for that retro personal

touch Perfection

This really is a magnificent build but

while the obvious elements are hugely

impressive, it’s the little touches that are

Rob’s favourite aspects “I had the rear E28

badge made at 3DPRINTUK as a one-off;

so many people asked me if BMW ever made that badge, which of course they didn’t,” he grins “Then there’s the chrome trim on the front grille, which was only done on the E12 But best of all was the BMW C-pillar roundel, which again was inspired by the E9 For me, looking in the wing mirror you could see it and it made the car feel special,” he says with a smile

“Overall the car was in some sort of build stage for about three years, on and off, and the big work was underway in the last

12 months; it was always being tinkered with in some way or another before that,”

says Rob “It was one of those cars that, when I had finished the car and the look, I just could not bring myself to take it away from its original E28 look The car had gone as far as I wanted to take it For me

it was perfect in every way,” he smiles and that means that there are no future plans for it, but that’s also because Rob had

to sell it not long ago “Although I never intended to sell the car, things happen, priorities change I built it, I loved it, but

needs must,” says Rob pragmatically “My late dad, who was my inspiration for cars, said to me when I was 20: ‘Men live to

an average age of 75.’ That gives you 55 summers if you start at 20, that’s 55 cars

if you have one a year, on average people have a car for three years, that’s about 18 cars in your lifetime, and that’s if you make

it that long Wise words that have stayed with me all my life, so I get the itch And that’s why I sold her on to a nice guy who

I know is going to look after her as he loves his retro BMWs and has a few If you want to follow him he is @e30_jv on IG and I certainly will be to watch out for any changes he makes,” says Rob

Luckily he’s not abandoned BMs and has moved into an M2, which he’s loving

“I always knew that was the next car for me and am I not disappointed, what

a machine, love it, no regrets,” he grins and that’s so good to hear As for the E28, it might be gone but it will never be forgotten and, thanks to its new owner, it will continue to be a part of the scene for many years to come, just like Rob ●

Stunning polished BBS RSs

fully-Custom C-pillar badges

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If you reside on the US West Coast and like

classic BMs, the massive and magnificent SoCal

Vintage show is one you don’t want to miss.

Wild wide-body E30

S14-swapped 2002

LovelyE12

Slick 8 Series on

OZ Mitos

SoCal

Vintage 2018

so everything from 700s to E34s are welcome and it makes SoCal Vintage the largest independent vintage BMW meet

in North America The meet encompasses the entire SoCal vintage BMW community, from the Central Coast to San Diego, with many visitors coming from even further afield, some driving all the way from Florida The meet participants also vote for their favourite BMs and the winners are given Drivers’ Choice Awards, which adds to the sense of community

BMW COUNT

Over 400, which is an awful lot but comes as no surprise going by the sheer scale and popularity of the event If classic and vintage BMs float your boat then you will be in absolute automotive heaven at SoCal Vintage As we mentioned in the section above, the sheer selection and variety of vintage BMs

is truly staggering and you’ll find everything from restored examples to full-on modded machinery, and it all sits side-by-side in perfect harmony Unsurprisingly there are far too many stunning machines to be able to wrap your head around but some cars that stood out included an air-ride E21 with an M50-swap and Porsche teledials, a gorgeous bagged E28 on ACS Type I Racing wheels, a wild, wide-body E30 wearing the M tricolour stripes, Tony Adzhemyan’s turbo

beautifully-2002 from our Jan ’19 issue and so much more, including a selection of E24 Sixes, Eights, ’02s and vintage stuff that you never see out on the road, making it a real treat for anyone who can appreciate classic BMWs

WE SAY

Bathed in California’s glorious winter sun and crammed full of some of the finest classic BMs you’re likely to find anywhere

in the world, SoCal Vintage is a sensational event and one that,

if you live anywhere near California and love BMs, you really

do need to get along to, you won’t be disappointed

LS-swapped E28

Tony Adzhemyan’s stunning turbo 2002 Stunning

E30 M3

Gorgeous bagged E28

looking M10 in this 2002

Serious-M50-swapped E21

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Want more grunt from your S65 but don’t want to tread the same path

as everyone else? Australia’s Harrop

Engineering has the answer

THUNDER

FROM DOWN

UNDER

It’s kind of a cliché that

Aussies love big, meaty V8s, but it’s a cliché because it’s also true In a country of wide, open spaces, mostly straight roads and relatively cheap petrol, it’s hard not to fall in love with a V8 And what Aussies love more than a V8

is a supercharged V8 Call it the Mad Max

factor if you like but, whatever the reason, the fact remains that sticking a big blower

on top of an even bigger V8 is many Australians’ idea of heaven And thus, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find that it’s an Aussie company that developed the world’s first positive displacement

supercharger for the S65 Because after all, what’s better than a finely-honed, high-revving European V8? One with a bloody great supercharger on top

Of course, it’s not that large, as it needs

to fit under the stock aluminium bonnet, and Harrop, being one of the world’s leading automotive engineering firms, knows how to generate big power without resorting to hilarious, poke-through-the-bonnet blowers anyway, but you get the idea The S65 lacks grunt down low, and Harrop knew just how to fix that little issue It wasn’t easy, thanks to the unique challenges of placing a positive displacement supercharger on top of eight

Words and photos: Chris Nicholls

supercharger, Race Coatings coated factory

exhaust manifolds, Akrapovic GT4 exhaust,

factory ECU re-flash Six-speed manual gearbox,

Drexler Motorsport LSD

CHASSIS

10x18” ET27 (front) and 11x18” ET31 (rear)

Forgeline GS1R forged wheels with 275/35 (front)

and 315/30 (rear) BF Goodrich Rival S tyres, MCS

three-way adjustable remote reservoir shocks

with Eibach springs (front and rear), BimmerWorld

adjustable upper and lower control arms (front

and rear), adjustable camber and toe arms (front

and rear), and adjustable rear trailing arms, Harrop

Ultimate six-piston (front) and four-piston (rear)

calipers with Ferodo DS3000 (front) and DS2500

(rear) pads, two-piece full-floating slotted discs,

braided lines, billet mounts and Castrol SRF fluid,

Harrop custom brake ducts

EXTERIOR

Custom headlights with black housings, new

projectors and angel eyes, Motorsport24 vented

carbon bonnet, BMW Motorsport GT4 canards

BimmerWorld carbon boot lid, Ultralight GT

carbon wing, stays and end plates, and carbon

splitter/undertray with brake ducts, LCI rear lights

INTERIOR

Six-point FIA-compatible Custom Cages T45

cage, rear seat and trim, front and rear

sound-deadening and carpet, and speakers removed,

Harrop customised dash and door cards,

custom-embroidered Velo GPT seats on Harrop

rails, Schroth harnesses, BMW M Performance

steering wheel, BimmerWorld short-shifter, IND

Distribution gear knob, Alcantara gear gaiter

18” Forgeline GS1R wheels and Harrop Ultimate brakes

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individual throttle bodies (as we’ll explain

in more detail later), but Harrop isn’t

an OEM supplier for nothing, and after

countless hours of testing and tuning in all

conditions, they managed to generate what

is quite possibly the most exciting way to

upgrade an S65 out there – the TVS 1740

The project started back in 2011,

when Harrop first took delivery of this

Alpine white example After scanning

the engine bay, they came up with initial

verification prototypes and started work

on the big brake kit, too However, as

Harrop general manager, Heath Moore,

points out, the brakes were the easy

bit “The brake kit wasn’t an extensive

engineering undertaking – it’s something

we’ve got a lot of experience in – but the

supercharger was, the S65 was extremely

complicated [to work with] Like you

probably couldn’t pick a more complicated

engine package to supercharge with

positive displacement as an aftermarket

kit, because of the individual throttle

bodies, which are actually downstream of the supercharger And then we needed to develop a sophisticated idle bypass control strategy in the ECU So we spent as much time developing the hardware and tooling that up as we did on the calibration, which

is still a work in progress in many ways,”

he says

Now, you may be wondering why the calibration of a product that’s been on the market a while now is still a work in progress, and that’s simple – the ‘stage one’ tune it comes with out of the box is perfect for its current 525whp, but Heath and his crew are hoping to develop a much more powerful tune, and that’s taking time

Getting back to the complexities of putting

a positive displacement supercharger on top of eight ITBs, it all comes down to venting air when the throttles snap shut

With traditional throttle bodies in front or above the supercharger, the moment you shut the throttle/s, there is no air getting into the supercharger, and any excess

pressure created by the screws pushing the air left inside is vented via a vacuum-actuated bypass valve (because, with the throttle/s shut, there is vacuum pressure inside the intake manifold) However, with the supercharger placed on top of the throttles, the moment they snap shut, you have no vacuum from the combustion chambers and have to figure out a very precise and rapid way to vent that excess pressure from the supercharger before it damages the delicate butterflies Therefore, Harrop came up with an electronic bypass valve, and calibrating that (and further tuning it to ensure a more precise transition in and out of boost) is what took much of the product’s development time With the supercharger recipe figured out (at least for the stage one tune), Harrop set to work ensuring the product was as thoroughly tested as possible, and that’s where this E92’s inadvertent evolution from road car to time attack beast began

We say inadvertent, as this level of tuning

Harrop

supercharger kit

makes 525whp

was never planned – the car had been

upgraded with a GTS half-cage and rear

wing, as well as those aforementioned

big brakes and even some 20” Forgeline

wheels, but as you can tell from the wheel

size, this was never a track car However,

track testing was needed and sadly, during

one session, a staffer put it into a concrete

wall hard enough to set off all the airbags,

and Heath made the call to put a full

Custom Cages T45 cage in there after it

had all been fixed up After that, thanks to

the Australian state of Victoria’s road rules,

it was never going to be a road car again,

and the path to the current spec began

As for that spec, supercharger,

Akrapovic GT4 exhaust and Race Coatings

coated factory exhaust manifolds aside,

the engine is completely stock, as is the

drivetrain apart from a Drexler diff and

BimmerWorld short shifter The majority of

the changes are in the suspension, interior

and aero Every single arm has been

replaced with BimmerWorld adjustable

models, complete with spherical bearings,

while shocks have been upgraded to MCS

remote reservoir three-ways, paired with

Eibach springs Heath says the suspension setup required quite a bit of tweaking

on arrival, due to the components being calibrated for smooth US and European circuits, rather than Australia’s often bumpy tracks, but it’s now at a level where just fine-tuning is required to eke the most out of the car Brakes are Harrop Ultimates, with six-piston front and four-piston rear calipers, Ferodo DS3000 front and DS2500 rear pads, and slotted, fully-floating two-piece discs, fed air by custom ducts Over those go some Forgeline GS1Rs in a much more track-spec 10x18”

ET27 front and 11x18” ET31 rear fitment, all wrapped in sticky BF Goodrich Rival

S tyres Meanwhile, the exterior changes consist of a Motorsport24 vented carbon bonnet, BimmerWorld carbon boot lid, massive BimmerWorld Ultralight GT rear wing and matching front carbon lip/

splitter (complete with BMW Motorsport GT4 carbon canards), LCI rear lights and customised headlights with black housings and new projectors and angel eyes Inside, there’s that cage, customised dash and door cards, M Performance wheel and Velo

Custom Cages

T45 cage

IND gear knob

Red details have been applied throughout the car

embroidered Velo GPTseats

the changes are in the suspension, interior and aero Every single arm has been replaced with BimmerWorld adjustable models, complete with

spherical bearings ”

GPT seats with Schroth harnesses

All-in-all, a very well thought-out and relatable

package for those who wish to turn their

E9x into a track car

It’s also a well-proven one Heath and

the team regularly take it out to compete

in various Australian time attack events,

and while the car’s near-1500kg weight

means it will never be up the top of the

field, it’s a solid, consistent and, most

importantly for future customers, reliable

runner Its clean and subtle appearance,

well-thought out colour scheme, and

throaty roar from that Akrapovic exhaust

all help draw crowds, as does the fact it’s

one of the few European cars competing

in time attack in Australia The near-stock

dashboard, complete with air-conditioning

(Heath says he likes to stay cool while

waiting to go out on track), certainly starts

a few conversations in the pits, too

For those wondering how it drives, let’s just say it’s pretty intense Not being road-legal, we could only thrash it up and down the private road in front of Harrop

HQ, so observations here are limited purely to straight line acceleration, but even then, the experience was an eye-opener Compared to any centrifugally-supercharged E9x M3, there was a huge increase in full-throttle grunt from just 2000rpm, and by 3000rpm you were already being rocketed along, thanks to the 200whp and 340lb ft available by that point (that’s 60hp and 80lb ft more than an ESS

625 kit at the same rpm, for example, and almost identical to the ESS 625 system’s peak torque) Keep into it and it only gets wilder from there, with a further kick after 4000rpm as you start to climb rapidly

towards the 372lb ft max torque figure, and while the dyno graph tells you the twist drops off after that, it’s only a small dip, and by then you’re surfing such a huge wave of power that you just don’t care Put simply, even taking into account this car’s race spec (and in reality, the cage and full dash means it’s very little lighter than stock), the grunt on offer here, and the way it’s delivered, would mean any Harrop supercharged E9x M3 would murder the majority of centrifugally-supercharged M3s out there in real world conditions The fact the TVS 1740 is engineered to

OE standards is just the icing on a very delicious cake Would Max Max approve? Maybe not, given his penchant for Aussie Fords, but there’s no doubt an ‘apocalypse-spec’ M3 fitted with this ’charger would fit right into his world ●

Motorsport24 vented carbon bonnet

This time attack M3 is a serious piece of kit

BimmerWorld splitter

and BMW Motorsport

GT4 canards

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Equipped with both a supercharger and turbo and developing an astonishing 1014whp, this wild E36 really is something else.

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