A V8-swapped, Rocket Bunny-kitted E46 M3 painted in a Lamborghini shade green. It seems all sorts of wrong, doesn’t it? It has the hallmarks of a project where someone cherry picked the components in order to cause the most amount of upset. I think that this E46 has everything to back up its visual presence. The colour and wheel combination are an obvious homage to a certain manufacturer from Bologna. I don’t think I would have chosen Rotiform‘s HUR beforehand, but it’s a refreshing change from the expected M3 wheel choices. It perfectly suits the OTT nature of the car, with the added benefit of it being an interesting design.

There’s a lot of meat on the tyres, too. The 10-inch fronts are wrapped in 255/35R18 Toyo R888s, the 11.5-inch rears in 295/30R18s of the same type. Sure, there’s a little stretch but that’s fine on a street car. The huge Brembos that lurk in the shadows are impressive in their own right. With the car equipped with Air Lift Performance’s 3H setup, it’s perfectly capable in the corners. It would more than hold its own at a track day too, which I can appreciate that is sometimes difficult to visualise when you see a car laid out like this.

The S54 inline-six has been removed, and in its place a Vortech supercharged Chevrolet LS2. Somewhere in the region of a reliable 550hp should be available with this setup, along with a significant increase in torque over the original BMW motor. As opposed to the typical stripped race and drift car interiors we see so often, the E46 is palatial in comparison. The upgrades are simple: a pair of custom-trimmed Cobra Suzukas, a dished Renown wheel and an extended Mishimoto Ryan Tuerck shifter, connected to the GTO transmission.

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