{"id":1439,"date":"2014-05-01T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2022-02-10T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:02:33","slug":"drag-bmw-with-four-rotor-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"BMW Dragster with a 26B Four-Rotor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=3482\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3482\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3482\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=3482\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01.jpg?fit=672%2C448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"672,448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Drag BMW M3 with turbocharged Mazda four-rotor engine&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01.jpg?fit=672%2C448&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01.jpg?resize=672%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01\" width=\"672\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01.jpg?w=672&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_01.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While going through our archives of unpublished articles we came across this project. Australian builder Queen Street built a BMW 3-series dragster with a 26B four-rotor. The engine and GT60 turbocharger is good for 1,664 horsepower and 1,158 lb-ft of torque on the dyno. The car is also said to have cost $1,000,000 when you added in the gold plating. The best quarter-mile was 7.2 seconds at 196 mph at the time of the source articles publishing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3483\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=3483\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02.jpg?fit=672%2C448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"672,448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Drag BMW M3 with turbocharged Mazda four-rotor engine&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02.jpg?fit=672%2C448&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02.jpg?resize=672%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02\" width=\"672\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02.jpg?w=672&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drag_bmw_m3_with_four_rotor_02.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedhunters.com\/2010\/10\/car_spotlight_gt_gt_the_queen_st_bmw_drag_car\/\">Speedhunters<\/a> by Charles Kha and photos by Casey Dhnaram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While going through our archives of unpublished articles we came across this project. Australian builder Queen Street built a BMW 3-series dragster with a 26B four-rotor. The engine and GT60 turbocharger is good for 1,664 horsepower and 1,158 lb-ft of torque on the dyno. The car is also said to have cost $1,000,000 when you&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=1439\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BMW Dragster with a 26B Four-Rotor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"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,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e90"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82503,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=82503","url_meta":{"origin":1439,"position":0},"title":"Mazda RX-7 with a 26B Four-Rotor","author":"swaptastic","date":"February 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"We've shared several four-rotor vehicles. 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