This V8-swapped BMW 1M Coupe is surely Jeremy Clarkson's dream car 

Steering wheel is on the wrong side.

It would be a 1M GTR

No matter what it is he can afford it and make a video about it. Stop using his name for video promotion!!!

there's an s65 dct swapped 1m coupe on instagram called "bruce",owned by a female named nina.That car must be even crazier than this

How can I get intouch with this Ashley? Thanks

100% yes it would!

Show me a bad video with Clarkson.

At this point drivetribe are just using the founder’s names as clickbait for videos that are completely unrelated

@@Oi-wz2dq yeah man its sad that you will almost never see Jeremy reviewing a new car again.

Bring Clarkson May and Hammond back!

I think he's already at the point where he realized that thing is more trouble than it's worth.

Lexus LFA

@@theothertonydutch sure, but that doesn't mean he will give up on it, he'll just get more.

POWER!!!

No matter what it is he can afford it and make a video about it. Stop using his name for video promotion!!!

They threw beans at it.

I was imagining exactly that when Mike mentioned the S85 V10… what would the 1M be like with that engine… must be awesome!

Man that sounds like heaven.

Also a dude with the Dinan stroker v8 5L in a 1M

A dealer did the electrical? Lol which one?

Nope it's not a GTR it's a punch to the throat type of car, should just be named the 1M8 - one man & his V8 for short 😁

@@DespaceMan yea i can see that, just thought gtr would fit considering there was a gtr, but hey there is no defined name for the thing

@@nicholascanjuga6000 i think a better name whould be GTS as thats what bmw uses for their street legal race cars. btw did you know you can litteraly go and buy a full blown bmw M race car from factory? like i don't mean like the m4 gts or anything like that but like litteraly order an M car that is a 100% fully built race car with air jacks roll cage slick tires one of those f1 car looking steering wheels. i find it really amazing that anyone can just go and buy a fully speced race car from factory

This car isn't and never was a 1M! It was a 123d and it's even still registered as a 123d on the gov.uk website!

@@alexcoupe. true enough, fair paiony

It is a masterpiece, but watch out for those bearings though

@@chiefdenis grow up. if you want M spec v8 quality, expect to pay M spec v8 price

@@oskarkrawiec368 people want a racing derived v8 to be like a pushrod lol

@@alexvega9181 to be fair a 6.5 L corvette engine would literally fit inside this one

@@THESLlCK So? Are you talking about the l78 from 65 that doesn’t compare in any way?

Absolute bargain......... almost like a side hobby for some.

Yep, that's a very reasonable price

I mean, you need a donor 1M first for the price stated in the video... That probably puts it in the realms of £50-60K if you find a cheap and abused 1M to do this on. Let alone the cost of refreshing other abused parts.

Rewatched. £30K all in! Wow. But yeah, because it's a standard 1 series with all the work done to it.

@@naycnay The car isn't an 1M though, it's a 123d

@J B Agree there is more power available in the N54. But this is basically taking all the best bits of the 1m and merging it with the best bits of the M3 without any after-market modification. Very appealing.

Like the N54, the S65 is also an aluminum block engine, so for a V8 it's not heavy. Was actually slightly lighter than the S54 in the E46 M3. S65 is all about the throttle response (because it has ITBs), sound and 8400 rpm redline. Tuning wise, a supercharger is basically the only option, with which 650 hp is easily doable.

@J B I don’t think anyone would consider doing this to a real 1m. Way too valuable.

@J B I have one of these cars E82 s65. Started life as a 118d. There is no advantage starting with a real 1m due to value. But it’s your car. Do as you please.

Been plotting for a year to chip my 520i to 300HP / 450Nm, and sell it to the missus as "maintenance" :D

I bought a wrecked 135i Cabrio, and other than it feeling a bit wobbly underneath, it is honestly one of my favorite cars to daily (and I have an M8C in the garage!) It is the perfect size and just an absolute scream to drive it - so tossable! We like it so much the wife has the new M240ix in final production right now. The 1 and 2 series are just the perfect size car!

even your wife (a woman, which is odd) has a better taste in cars, if she weren't impressed by 1or2 class bmw coupe;p

@@bonifacijus11 she ended up with a V8 wagon of another brand with plenty of bells and whistles, now I hope to get one as my daily . . .

Being single has it perks no nagging wife to deal with or keep happy, but the fact is that females are never happy… 🤷🏽‍♂️

Myth

K&N because we all love ricey engine bays.

Komoletely & Nackered

I'm really curious the exact weight difference of the fully dressed engines, I wouldn't think the turbo/intercooler would weigh all that much, but architectural differences between an I6 and a V8 give you a lot of toss ups that just come down to the execution.

Yeah you're right, a bit cheeky of them to call it a 1M

1M was really just a regular 1 series with m3 parts slapped on it if we're being honest. Still the best bmw of all time

I'm sure.. maybe... But it wouldn't be... The special car that it is...

There are z4s with v10s. This is same engine just less cylinders, same problems.

I'm not sure if you could fit a V10 in there. The V8 is pretty much aready cramped in there.

Now that would really affect the balance, there are E46's with V10s out there though. This NA V8 is a similar weight to the standard turbo inline 6 found in this 1M.

It's already been done, about 5 years ago or so.

It sure is. It's a stunning look ing car. Absolutely gorgeous 💕

@@tomdagg6545 this one must be such a blast to drive and I can already see a nice body kit on that.. Ouff!!!

@J B that's missing Arthur's point though. The N54 might be the more performant option, but is it as enjoyable to drive? For some people, I understand that it will be. I know plenty of turbo addicts, and I don't begrudge them their choice. But there's also a lot to be said for the experience of a highly tuned, naturally aspirated V8 shoved into a tiny little car. I've owned both, and I can appreciate them both, but the song of an S65 at 8,000 RPM stirs something in me that I just can't find with a turbo I6, no matter how hard it shoves me down the road.

@J B what tuning would u recommend ? I have a 1m as well and it seems a bit slow for me

nah, theyre sponsored by them

Get your lawyers to write to K and N , then you can find out !

'I feel that I - I - I can safely say, Downing St. has never used them as free-flow party hats . . . more gin Vicar?' : )

The 340i F30 LCI was/is an absolute beast of a car. In my opinion, the 340i was the pick of the F30 range as the M3 was just unimpressive compared to the C63, the E90 and the new M3. I’m currently looking at maybe upgrading my 2011 BMW 323i to a 340i or 440i. Do you approve of this and is the B58 as reliable as I hear people say it is?

@@patrickbateman6885 it was another techs customers looking for a driveline noise under acceleration. The customer had done mods to it. Tune and a bigger turbo, it was scary fast. Think it was a 17-19 F30 not an S motor

@@patrickbateman6885 I’ve got a stage 2 M140i b58, craziest car I’ve ever had

Why mention EV's at all? I take it several has bent you over to make you so butthurt - try a cream.

Mine is heated up and now dynamic perfection. It comes as a blank canvas. I have been blessed with a wide scope of cars for 50 years: Astons. 356 Speedster, Roadster, 2 cabs, 120DHC, 140M, E-Type OTS & FHC, 73 911E, rare XJ12C, XK8 'vert, MB SL's, 2002, 5-series, Alpina 635CSI, for a small sample. The 1-series after spending a fortune to get it right [BMW got it sooo wrong] is dynamically Superior, beyond better, than ALL of them by far. Full stop.

@@douglasjames4905 what did u do to the 1series? Even better than the 140m?

Not really sure about that.. 335hp vs 400hp.. it may come close in the horsepower over time comparison.. I would always be able to plug up my KESS v2 and my laptop and make 400hp with more dramatic torque from that N54, without swapping anything or spending any money... just saying 🤭

Kind of surprised there’s no one producing swap kits with engine mounts.

@@FirstFamilyCharger you don't need it, you can transplant the whole subframe over.

Yea but you would definitely make way more power with a few mods to the n54

@@Scooterboii94 I own both the S54 and S65 and they are both pretty much maxed out with power and bolt-ons do little. The S65 is a better engine IMO and the S54 isn't even in the same league when it comes to sound.

People are kind of spoiled when they say "no torque" for a 400Nm engine that carries 90% of it's torque from 3500 to 8500 RPM. No engine holds it's torque over a band of 5k RPM like this engine does.

@@BlitzkriegRap ...but with turbo engines,

@@ryanpuryear Everyone seems to get excited over high horsepower numbers. That might be the only reason the industry uses that specification. After all, at least in the automotive world... it's not even something that can be directly measured; it's just a man-made thing. What gets measured is *torque* - then someone grabs a calculator, multiplies the measured torque by the RPM it was measured at and then divides the result by 5,252. That's it. "Horsepower" = torque*RPM/5,252. Raise the point at which an engine develops its power to a higher RPM and, obviously, its horsepower rating increases. If that RPM is high enough, it can even cause many people to think an engine is more powerful than it actually is even if its actual power (torque) is *less* . On the other hand, if an engine is said to make 300 horsepower at 2,000 RPM, that actually means that it produces 787.8 ft/lbs of torque, lol. Which explains why (relatively) large displacement turbodiesel V8 engines can end up weighing in the neighborhood of 1,100 pounds, fully dressed - they need to be stoutly built to handle the massive internal forces involved in producing the power that they do.

@@wesgregg6451 Now days even this thing’s 400hp is not much to brag about. It was never the HP on this, it was the rev’s...which to your point is positively correlated to HP and negatively correlated with torque.

This!

N54 great potential but whe ntalking about sound it will always be below high reving NA engines.

If I could afford one of these ontop of my 5 dream cars, I could probably afford to extend my garage to accommodate a 6th. Or at least rent a place to store it... :D

Yeaaa my thoughts exactly...we are in a perverted territory now haha.

They're around $100K (used) for a donor CS.

£30K + a 1M! :D

I have an E82 Sport spec as my keeper until ddup. If the Recaro oem is all the way back, I couldn't depress the 3rd pedal. I'm 6-2" long legs ratio. JC may well be too porkly by now, especially two aboard.

It's not a miata dude. It's decent.

@@TTRSEmotion @J B I am currently looking at Clarkson in the 1M. He's ducking so his head doesnt hit the roof, his knees are banging into the steering column, and he looks quite cramped. BTW I never said he wouldn't fit just that he would have a hard time fitting and from what Im seeing, S17 E1 TG, he is.

@@theprodigalstranger5259 are you a tall dude?

@@Phantom-ez4zv barefoot Im 6' tall, 6'1" - 6'3" depending on what shoes or boots I'm wearing.

No I don’t think your wrong; I’ve always had a thing for jaguar in line 6 engines as well as BMWs. A V6 or V8 is just not as smooth.

There is power, then there is turbo power. And the more your build power via turbos the more you change the characteristics. Part of the fun of M cars is the hooliganism and handling capabilities and IMO you need/want immediate throttle response before big power gains.