Watch as this S54-powered, lightweight E36 reaches the ... another question: What if BMW had built an E36 M3 CSL? I've thought this very thought before; I owned several E36s when they were dirt ...

The BMW E36 was the 3 Series of the ’90s ... inside and out … there’s a lot to admire before even getting to the S54 engine under the hood. As BMW nerds will know, the S54 is the inline ...

Many thus claim the S54 was the most highly tuned six BMW ever created and the quintessential ... And since the European S50B3 E36 M3 engine was scarce and expensive, the E46 M3 S54B52 was the ...

What you’re about to see is not for the faint-hearted BMW fans so consider yourself warned ... the car had an E46 M3 engine (codename S54) and a lot of work done to it like AST coils, Apexi ...

Overall, the new M3 and its S54 were praised for smooth power delivery and goosebump-inducing exhaust note. BMW succeeded at creating a worthy successor for the E36 model, but it had something ...

Under the hood, the smooth bay has been blessed with BMW's 3.2 liter S54 motor out of the E46 M3 ... the motor mounts were retrofitted from an E36 3-Series. "The power is completely different ...

The mill is an ultimate incarnation of the BMW straight-six ... understand how many horses our E36 was missing until the E46 brought the heat. And while the S54 brings more ferocity to this ...

The BMW M has a reputation as a high-performing car line, both on the track and in the streets. It's been like that for decades, but the German manufacturer needed to modernize at the turn of the ...