N54 Swap anybody?

[James Crivellone]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/02/17/bmw-officially-announces-new-n54-turbo-engine/#more-1764

Seems like we have a new factory turbo engine.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

not just turbo.

TWIN TURBO!

[Ray Smoodiver]

Its no N50B32

[Beej '86 325es]

that engine looks really complicated.

[kansas-ix]

I want to know what the potential is wants it gets in the right hands, what 360hp.

[DanGillan]

that engine looks really complicated.

suprizingly it looks really straight forward. its very simple which is perfect for the application. too bad we still dont know if its coming to the US

[Avus E30]

mmmm I hope it makes it over to NA thats a very impressive engine. BMW's engine progress continnues

[DanGillan]

the US will either get that engine, or a differently tuned NA version of that engine. either way, i doubt it would be hard to get the turbo parts and swap them to the NA engine. im sure it would only be a matter of time until someone did it if that was the case.

[RobertK]

Maybe BMW is getting ready to compete in the turbo AWD market?

That would be interesting no? TT AWD 330xi.

[Digitalwave]

I can't see BMW ever holding a candle to the cheap, fast turbo AWD's on the market.

Looks like a sweet engine. I never thought I'd see FI BMW inline 6's making into into the 3 series.

[grapedrink]

Wow. That is a bmw first. Give that motor and computer to AA and there is 450+hp with simple bolt ons.

Now the question is what is the M3 going to have? If the regular 3 series has about as much as the old M3 had power wise then they definally are going to step it up. They need to drop a V8 or something unique in 3 series line like the E30 M3 had with the 4cyl.

[Il Duce]

damn, its about time. the 2002 turbo was great! lets see about this though....

[Matt86es]

Wow. That is a bmw first. Give that motor and computer to AA and there is 450+hp with simple bolt ons.

Now the question is what is the M3 going to have? If the regular 3 series has about as much as the old M3 had power wise then they definally are going to step it up. They need to drop a V8 or something unique in 3 series line like the E30 M3 had with the 4cyl.

They were already talking about dropping a V8 into the new M3, now that the M5/6 has the V10.

[Jon325i]

If the US doesn't get the bi-turbo engine, tuners will step in and take care of that. My guess BMWs reason for is doing this has something to do with either A) the straight-6 in NA form is about as evolved as it can get in terms of output, or B) the marketing of their cars as to how they are positioned in the product line up (3.5L turbo six @ ~300bhp, 4.0L V8 @ ~400bhp, and 5.0L V10 @ ~500bhp).

Porsche did this very tactic with the new Cayman....gracing it with power and performance that positioned it just above the Boxster S but below the bread-n-butter making 911.

Jon

[grapedrink]

Yea BMW has maxed out the inline 6 with the S54. All you can do is go larger in displacement like the TVRs but that would outclass them in racing.