Stop What You're Doing: Someone Has Put An 8.3-Litre Viper V10 In A BMW Z4
Forget your sissy LS swaps and strap on a pair. There’s a BMW Z4 for sale right now in Germany whose heart has been transplanted for an 8.3-litre V10 from a Dodge Viper.
Yes, really. A Viper V10 has been shoe-horned beneath the just-long-enough bonnet of BMW’s baby roadster. Its mildly insane owners put the unholy marriage at about 540bhp and around 550lb ft, with 90 per cent of that torque claimed to be on the table from 1500rpm. RIP rear tyres.
Even better, the eBay advert for the car claims (in German) that the weight distribution with two people on board is almost exactly 50:50.
The builders have lifted six-piston brakes from an Audi R8 and fitted two bucket seats with six-point harnesses. There’s a Stahlus roll cage, plus unique one-off stainless steel manifolds and a radiator, oil pan and prop shaft in aluminium. Then there are bespoke drive shafts made with ‘special steel’ and a bunch of other unique parts made just for this car.
The seller says the setup could now be supercharged, but seems dubious about the legality of such a move in Germany. After all, it’s going to need all sorts of race-spec upgrades if it goes to 700bhp.
It’s on the market for €49,500 (£42,000) but close offers will be considered. Always liked the Z4 but wished it had bigger testes? You know what to do.
Update: as of 13 January 2017, this thing is actually still for sale, for the slightly reduced price of €48,700. Feeling brave?
Source: TuningBlog.eu (in German)
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am I the only one who want’s to know how the hell he managed to shoehorn that 8,3lit Viper V10 in there? I can barely find the correct shoe size for me!
Jeremy Clarkson Approved!
Some one also put a viper engine in a volvo 242
Why is there no video of this in action? What are you guys…? Sadists?!
The crazy thing is that 700bhp with a supercharger is really low balling it. I have heard that just a procharger on 6lbs of boost and a base tune makes about 800 at the crank.
this reminds me of a mosquito with a rocket strapped to it’s ass
“sissy LS swaps”
So are we going to call this thing the BMVViper?
I’m going to guess that the owner chose the viper V10 instead of the “smaller” BMW V10, because it’s the Viper engine is actually smaller. Though the Viper engine’s displacement is significantly larger than the BMW V10’s, the Viper motor is a smaller overall package because it’s a pushrod design, so it has no cams and valvetrain gizmos on top of each cylinder, making for a more compact (vertically) profile that can fit into the relatively small engine bay of the Z4. I’d bet that the BMW V10 wouldn’t fit without a massive and stupid looking hood scoop, if at all. This is one of the reasons people stuff LS engines into just about everything—they’re small.
That’s not the case. People are swapping S85 in Z4 without problem and are making it look OEM.
Like here for example:
http://jalopnik.com/5120196/v10-powered-bmw-z4-the-non-hairdresser-version
Keep in mind that it has dry sump which saves couple of cm in height.
It’s rough dimensions are 69cm height/69cm width/75cm lenght with accessories and intake included.
And the Viper V10 is bigger overall while having the same height - 69cm/61cm/87cm.
In the BMW world S85 is kind of like LS - it’s swapped into anything without silly hood scoops ;)
I wish there was video of this thing in action!