This month's desktop wallpaper: Narek Isayan's S54-powered E36 M3 Sedan. Narek's refreshing take on the E36 platform helps to establish the E36's permanent roots as a future classic. Blending styles ...
Chase McMaster built his BMW E36 to drift at this company Chase Bays in Birmingham, Alabama. The car was previously powered by a S52 inline-six until it blew. He replaced that with a turbocharged 2.5...
Sébastien Farbos competes in Championnat De France Drift with his BMW E36 built by Jacob Sport. The 1030 kg (2270 lb) coupe is propelled by a turbocharged 3.6 L Nissan VQ35 V6 mated to a 3MO Performa...
BimmerWorld entered Pikes Peak 2017 with a BMW E92 M3 and went 11:02.966. They followed that in 2019 with a BMW F82 M4 GT4 and went 10:39.786. They realized their dream of faster times would require ...
This BMW E36 is being built by Brennsport in Germany to compete at local track days but also be street legal. In the engine bay sits a 6.2 L LS376 V8 crate engine making 525 horsepower and 486 lb-ft ...
This BMW E36 was built to drift by Alek at Alek Projekt in Poland. The car was previously powered by a turbocharged BMW inline-six making 700 horsepower. The engine featured a M50B25 block, M52B28 cr...
CYBUL sells a swap kit for installing a BMW M60, M62, or S62 V8 into a BMW E36, E46, Z3, or Z4 model. The kits range from €1,149-€1,795 or about $1,274-$1,991 depending on options. All kits include a...
In Episode 2 of In the Shop with StanceWorks, Mike takes us "From Then to Now" with a brief look back at the history of his E36 and its current condition as its prepped for a complete build overhaul....
The E36 hasn't always been the car it is today. For years, it has spent time as the least-appreciated M car of them all: a sort of "every man's M3" lacking the intricacies that make the Ms that prece...
Last year Jake “Rollzie” Rolls wanted to try something different in his BMW E36 sedan. He decided on installing a turbocharged 3.0 L N55B30 inline-six taken from a 2015 BMW M135i. A factory version o...
This 1996 BMW M3 E36 is for sale in Houston, Texas for $45,000. The project started six years ago and includes build photos, documents, and receipts showing $90,000 in parts and labor. Under the hood...
This 1996 BMW M3 E36 is for sale in Houston, Texas for $45,000. The project started six years ago and includes build photos, documents, and receipts showing $90,000 in parts and labor. Under the hood...
Geert Geerts and his company GNG Motorsport are transforming a BMW E36 wagon into a race car for a lucky customer. Under the hood sits a built 3.2 L S54 inline-six that will produce slightly more pow...
This BMW E36 was built by Rafał Szymański at his company SR Garage in Żarowo, Konin, Poland. They replaced the factory 2.8 L M52B28 inline-six with a rebuilt 4.4 L M62B44 V8 fed by a BMW E39 540 fuel...
This BMW E36 drift pickup is for sale in Burnham-on-Crouch, England, UK for £8,500 or about $10,940. Under the hood sits a twin-turbo 3.0 L N54 inline-six from a BMW 335i. The engine made 360 horsepo...
DesertBMW replaced the factory 1.8 L M42 inline-four and transmission in his 1995 BMW 318ti with a turbocharged N55 inline-six and ZF 6HP21 six-speed automatic transmission. He documented the entire ...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a few million, easy. At least, that's the current exchange rate. Our friends at Driving Line and Motegi Racing recently partnered up with our ...
This 1996 BMW M3 race car is for sale in Simi Valley, California for $50,000. Under the carbon fiber hood sits a naturally aspirated 3.0 L S54 inline-six that makes 323 horsepower thanks to a tune by...
The owner of this BMW E36 built it to drift on the weekends in Spain. Under the hood sits a turbocharged 2.0 L Cosworth YB inline-four from Ford Sierra RS Cosworth. The engine makes around 270 horsep...
Every year people from all over Europe gather at Norway’s oldest asphalt race circuit Rudskogen Motorsenter for Gatebil to show of their vehicles either on the show floor or at the track. Many of the...
Talented students from Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland are building an electric drift car called ZEC (Zero Emission Car). They started with a 1996 BMW E36 and gutted the interi...
When BMW introduced the E30 Touring back in the '80s, they combined sport and utility to create a new wave of European wagons that were nimble, relatively quick, and nice to look at. It is no wonder ...
Raffaele “Bulldozer” Rusca competes in Time Attack and drifting events with his BMW E36 M3 built by Team Rusca Power Racing in Switzerland. Popping out of the hood is an air filter atop a carbureted ...
This BMW E36 was built by a group of talented mechanics and fabricators for Swedish Time Attack Championship (STAC) in the R-Tire class. The team chose to power the race car with a 3.0 L M54B30 inlin...
This 2001 Honda Insight went to Palm Beach International Raceway to compete against a few modified vehicles such as a BMW E36 M3 with a turbo 1JZ and a BMW 135 with a turbo. Under the hood sits a 2.0...