{"id":83229,"date":"2022-03-02T16:32:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=83229"},"modified":"2022-03-02T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:32:34","slug":"escort-race-car-with-a-10000-rpm-bmw-inline-six-on-the-dyno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=83229","title":{"rendered":"Escort Race Car with a 10,000 rpm BMW Inline-Six on the Dyno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=83237\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-83237\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"83237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=83237\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ford-Escort-with-a-BMW-S38-inline-six-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Ford Escort with a BMW S38 inline-six 03\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Ford Escort with a BMW S38 inline-six&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ford-Escort-with-a-BMW-S38-inline-six-03.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ford-Escort-with-a-BMW-S38-inline-six-03.jpg?resize=600%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ford Escort with a BMW S38 inline-six\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-83237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ford-Escort-with-a-BMW-S38-inline-six-03.jpg?resize=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ford-Escort-with-a-BMW-S38-inline-six-03.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ford-Escort-with-a-BMW-S38-inline-six-03.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ford-Escort-with-a-BMW-S38-inline-six-03.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/papadopoulos.power\">Nikos Papadopoulos<\/a> is prepping his Ford Escort Mk2 race car for the upcoming 2022 hillclimb season in Greece. The team visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TS-JOKER-Performance-Tuning-582027985263146\/\">T.S Joker Performance Tuning<\/a> for a dyno tune on the naturally aspirated S38 inline-six normally found in a BMW E34 M5. Last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yXR8caUzGWQ\">Hillclimb Monsters<\/a> reported the motor was destroked to 3.1 liters to increase rpm to 10,000 and make 500 hp. Listen to the inline-six scream on the dyno below. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FThimiosSkaltsas%2Fvideos%2F2050845708408920%2F&#038;width=600&#038;show_text=false&#038;height=332&#038;appId\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThimiosSkaltsas\">Thimios Skaltsas FB page<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ECUMASTER\/posts\/5026318150745342\">Ecumaster FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikos Papadopoulos is prepping his Ford Escort Mk2 race car for the upcoming 2022 hillclimb season in Greece. The team visited T.S Joker Performance Tuning for a dyno tune on the naturally aspirated S38 inline-six normally found in a BMW E34 M5. Last year Hillclimb Monsters reported the motor was destroked to 3.1 liters to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=83229\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Escort Race Car with a 10,000 rpm BMW Inline-Six on the Dyno<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":83237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-escort"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ford-Escort-with-a-BMW-S38-inline-six-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106924,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=106924","url_meta":{"origin":83229,"position":0},"title":"Ford Escort with a BMW S38 Inline-Six","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 31, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Nikos Papadopoulos competes in Greek hillclimb racing with his Ford Escort Mk2. 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