{"id":12902,"date":"2016-11-21T07:15:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12902"},"modified":"2016-11-21T01:59:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:59:16","slug":"bmw-m6-with-a-six-rotor-engine-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12902","title":{"rendered":"BMW M6 with a Six-rotor Engine Update 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-18.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12903\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=12903\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-18.jpg?fit=720%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bmw-m6-with-a-3-9-l-six-rotor-engine-18\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;BMW M6 with a 3.9 L six-rotor engine&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-18.jpg?fit=720%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-18.jpg?resize=620%2C517&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BMW M6 with a 3.9 L six-rotor engine\" width=\"620\" height=\"517\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-18.jpg?resize=620%2C517&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-18.jpg?resize=600%2C500&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-18.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12410\">previous article<\/a> we mentioned how close the custom 3.9 L six-rotor engine in this BMW M6 was to turning over. Well the time is finally here to listen to the wild engine make noise. The project was taken to AJ Racing Rotaries in Gauteng, South Africa to start the engine for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1579865595592472%2Fvideos%2F1830932137152482%2F&amp;width=600&amp;show_text=false&amp;height=345&amp;appId\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1579865595592472%2Fvideos%2F1830936337152062%2F&amp;width=600&amp;show_text=false&amp;height=345&amp;appId\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJ-Racing-Rotaries-Arthur-Joubert-1579865595592472\/\">AJ Racing Rotaries<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAutomotiveObsession\/posts\/1202748166480429\">Automotive Obsession<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our previous article we mentioned how close the custom 3.9 L six-rotor engine in this BMW M6 was to turning over. Well the time is finally here to listen to the wild engine make noise. The project was taken to AJ Racing Rotaries in Gauteng, South Africa to start the engine for the first&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12902\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BMW M6 with a Six-rotor Engine Update 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e63"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-18.jpg?fit=720%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12410,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12410","url_meta":{"origin":12902,"position":0},"title":"BMW M6 with a Six-rotor Engine Update 2","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"One of our favorite projects just had another update. 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The car is located in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa and you need to call for the price. Under the hood sits a crazy 3.9 L six-rotor peripheral ported and built by KiwiRE and assembled and tuned\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;E65&quot;","block_context":{"text":"E65","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?cat=288"},"img":{"alt_text":"BMW M6 with a 3.9 L six-rotor engine","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-23.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-23.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-23.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-23.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BMW-M6-with-a-3.9-L-six-rotor-engine-23.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11539,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=11539","url_meta":{"origin":12902,"position":4},"title":"BMW M6 with a Six-rotor Engine Update","author":"swaptastic","date":"September 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"One of our new favorite projects just had an update. 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