{"id":36306,"date":"2019-02-18T16:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T22:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=36306"},"modified":"2019-02-18T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T22:34:55","slug":"bmw-e46-m3-with-a-468-ci-ls7-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=36306","title":{"rendered":"BMW E46 M3 with a 468 ci LS7 V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This BMW E46 M3 called “Chainsaw Massacre” is being built into the ultimate track monster by Vorshlag<\/a> in Princeton, Texas for a lucky customer. The 2600 lb race car will feature a 468 ci (7.7 L) LS7 V8 built by Erik Koeing and his company HorsePower Research<\/a> (HPR) they expect to make 750-800 horsepower on 93 octane fuel. The engine is built with Texas Speed ported heads, HPR propriety forged rods and pistons, forged crank, high lift hydraulic roller camshaft, ARE 4-stage dry sump oil system, DeatschWerks 65 lb\/hr injectors, and 103 mm throttle body. They installed the engine using their LSx swap kit<\/a> with a G-SPEED custom wiring harness. Power goes to the Hoosiers 335\/345mm slicks through a T56 Magnum six-speed manual transmission with a McLoed twin-disc clutch, custom 3-inch driveshaft, and Ford 8.8-inch rear end with a Wavetrac LSD and 3.73 gears. You can read how the project started along with more specs and photos in the build thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source: Vorshlag forum<\/a> Vorshlag FB page<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This BMW E46 M3 called “Chainsaw Massacre” is being built into the ultimate track monster by Vorshlag in Princeton, Texas for a lucky customer. The 2600 lb race car will feature a 468 ci (7.7 L) LS7 V8 built by Erik Koeing and his company HorsePower Research (HPR) they expect to make 750-800 horsepower on… Read More »BMW E46 M3 with a 468 ci LS7 V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36308,"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,"_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":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e46"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110245,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=110245","url_meta":{"origin":36306,"position":0},"title":"BMW E46 M3 with a LS3 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"January 16, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Ash Burrows enjoys driving his BMW E46 M3 at the track. 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