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Originally Posted by porscheguy9999
Is the engine bay of the E46 M3 even big enough to fit a V8? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the M3's engine an inline 6?
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Actually it is. It has to be modified, but there are some guys in Georgia (I think) that did it. They did it back in like 2002. It is not an easy deal, but the V8 is really not that much longer than the I6 engine. It is jsut a bit bulkier, and the M3's have ample room width wise. Shoot, if I had a good $90,000 to invest into a M3, I would definetely look into the motor swap, but the right V8 would be hard to come by. You could put the V8 that was in the pre-2005 M5 in it, and that would be pretty sweet, but there would have to be a lot of supporting mods... anywho, enough on that.
GTR's rock!