{"id":35830,"date":"2019-02-06T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=35830"},"modified":"2019-02-06T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T23:37:52","slug":"building-a-bmw-135i-with-a-1000-hp-n55-inline-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=35830","title":{"rendered":"Building a BMW 135i with a 1000 hp N54 Inline-Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ghassan Automotive<\/a> is a company in Stillwater, Oklahoma that specializes in BMW repair and upgrades. For the past three months the company has been building a BMW 135i E82 to go drag racing. The engine is a turbocharged and built N54 inline-six that will make 1,000+ horsepower. The engine features a sleeved and closed deck block, forged rods and pistons, upgraded valves, ARP head and main studs, and AEM Infinity ECU. Power will go to the rear slicks through a factory BMW six-speed manual and Lewis FAB9 rear end with Strange third-member and axles. The back-halfed race car will be certified for 7.5 seconds in the quarter-mile. The company plans on eventually replacing the manual for a built TH400 automatic when they decide to pursue the 7’s. You can follow the project’s progress on Ghassan Automotive FB page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source: Ghassan Automotive FB page<\/a> via 1320Video FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghassan Automotive is a company in Stillwater, Oklahoma that specializes in BMW repair and upgrades. For the past three months the company has been building a BMW 135i E82 to go drag racing. The engine is a turbocharged and built N54 inline-six that will make 1,000+ horsepower. The engine features a sleeved and closed deck… Read More »Building a BMW 135i with a 1000 hp N54 Inline-Six<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35872,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e82"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BMW-135i-with-a-turbo-N54-inline-six-01.jpg?fit=1080%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2817,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2817","url_meta":{"origin":35830,"position":0},"title":"BMW 135i with an E92 M3 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"April 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"You are looking at a very special BMW or as Matt Farah would put it \"possibly the best BMW you could build at any price.\" This BMW 135i was slowly upgraded to a M-series both in looks and performance. 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