This Crazy BMW M2 Drag Car Has AWD and Hypercar Horsepower

The newest BMW M automobiles are straight-line demons from the manufacturing facility, and so they take properly to mods. That is maybe probably the most excessive trendy M automobile we’ve seen but, an M2 drag automobile pumping out 1,500 horsepower to all 4 wheels. It’s the work of UK-based aftermarket store R44 Efficiency and Tom Wrigley Efficiency, and it’s headed to the US to attempt to declare the mantle of the world’s quickest BMW.

This venture started with the all-wheel drive conversion. BMW doesn’t promote an all-wheel drive M2—not less than not but—however beneath, the automobile is essentially the identical because the M3 and M4, each of which have all-wheel drive choices. (BMW does promote an all-wheel drive 2 Collection, however the {hardware} is barely totally different than the M automobiles) For this construct, R44 and Tom Wrigley Efficiency sourced the drivetrain from an M3 and after a lot trial and error, managed to make it work. 

To get 1,500 horsepower, Tom Wrigley Efficiency dropped the inventory twin turbos for an unlimited single turbo setup, skimmed and sleeved the engine, put in solid internals, and all kinds of additional cooling. The eight-speed automated transmission additionally will get new internals to cope with the huge torque. On high of all that, there’s a full roll cage, carbon bucket seats with six-point harnesses, intensive suspension upgrades, customized Vossen wheels, and plenty of carbon-fiber bodywork. Oh, and a parachute. 

The M2 is headed stateside to make a pair appearances, together with on the TX2K in Texas subsequent March, an occasion for street-legal drag automobiles. There, it can problem to grow to be one of many world’s quickest BMWs. R44 Efficiency has a full construct collection on its YouTube channel, so remember to examine that out if you wish to see the whole lot that goes into making one of the excessive M2s on the planet.