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Recently updated on April 14, 2016 at 10:28 am
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The team around Gabura Racing Technologies GmbH has published a mega exciting and half-finished project at the Professional MotorSport World Expo in Cologne. The 3-cylinder eco-sports car in the form of the BMW i8 came into consideration as the basis. After the tuning cure that the car was allowed to endure, the i8 will soon come with the S63T V8 Biturbo from the M5 and an enormous increase in performance as well as a completely specially developed tubular space frame, chassis and many other tuning parts. If you are the proud owner of a BMW i8 and don't want to know anything more about eco-dodging, Gabura Racing should be an interesting starting point when it comes to setting the car apart from the crowd and getting rid of around € 750.000. As far as the changes made and planned to the BMW i8 are concerned, we have already learned the first details. As always, we have listed what we know below for you in a summary.
(Photo / s: Gabura Racing)
These are the details of the vehicle:
- Name: Gabura GRT V8i
- Eight-cylinder engine from the BMW M5 F10 installed
- self-developed lattice framework
- Sequential transaxle transmission (6 gear)
- all ECUs developed themselves
- stronger cooling system than in the production model
- specially developed chassis
- additional dry sump lubrication
- modified intake system
- Titan sports exhaust system
- rear-wheel drive
- planned is a much wider body kit
- possibly a performance increase on good 800PS
- Small series is planned
- Price: approx. 750.000 euros
Update from "04.12.2015/XNUMX/XNUMX"
There is new information about the above mentioned vehicle which we can not withhold from you. For one thing, the tuner has a promising one BMW i8 intro video released and on the other circulated rumors that Alpina once again neatly modified the M5 / M6 engine and landed somewhere in the area between 800-850PS.
Ps. We think the video is world class! Compliment…
Gabura Racing Technologies / Episode 2: The complete disassemblyWhen you adore the super-cool design and price tag of the BMW i8, it's a pretty hard decision to give the engineers the green light to take it to pieces. Nevertheless, to install a V8 into the i8, you first have to disassemble the car completely. It is not a walk in the park, but we are very well aware that the most challenging part of this enormous project is ahead of us. To be continued ...
Posted by Gabura Racing Technologies GmbH on Monday, 7. March 2016
Update from "14.04.2016/XNUMX/XNUMX"
There are new pictures of the current modifications to the chassis.
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