# the turbos are coming.. THE TURBOS ARE COMING!!

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**Category:** SON240sx Automotive\
**Created:** [February 17, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-turbos-are-coming-the-turbos-are-coming/92967 "2006-02-17T11:28:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrSkinny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MrSkinny](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MrSkinny)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-turbos-are-coming-the-turbos-are-coming/92967/1 "2006-02-17T11:28:43Z")

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[http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/02/17/bmw-officially-announces-new-n54-turbo-engine/](http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/02/17/bmw-officially-announces-new-n54-turbo-engine/)

![http://www.leftlanenews.com/wp-images/media/feb17bmw_1.jpg](http://www.leftlanenews.com/wp-images/media/feb17bmw_1.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Wiltzor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@Wiltzor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wiltzor)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-turbos-are-coming-the-turbos-are-coming/92967/2 "2006-02-17T11:35:43Z")

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Nice looking engine.

I think it would be a complete bastard to swap out those turbos though.

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**Author:** ![Bero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bero)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-turbos-are-coming-the-turbos-are-coming/92967/3 "2006-02-18T16:27:02Z")

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and bimmers are hard enough as it is to work on…  
the engine bays are built just like most nissans… aka the car built around the engine…

you have to take tons of crap out to do anything on those cars…

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**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-turbos-are-coming-the-turbos-are-coming/92967/4 "2006-02-18T17:22:38Z")

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only 306hp out of a BMW TT straight 6?

i would expect another 100hp out of that thing from the factory

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**Author:** ![GT1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5e925/32.png) [@GT1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GT1)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-turbos-are-coming-the-turbos-are-coming/92967/5 "2006-02-18T19:04:00Z")

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that has to be heavily goverened… i can see that thing easily being capable of well over 400 hp…

GT

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**Author:** ![Wiltzor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@Wiltzor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wiltzor)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-turbos-are-coming-the-turbos-are-coming/92967/6 "2006-02-19T11:19:38Z")

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They most likely didn’t up the power more because they don’t want to interfere with M3 sales.