Welcome back to the vlog. Welcome back to the channel here, and welcome back to the
next video. Today I'm going to talk about the Top 5 best BMW motors, and I'm going
to give you a little bit of the basic specifications, and talk about what cars
they were featured in. First engine on my list not necessarily in this order in
terms of what are my favorite but it happens to be the S65 engine that you
would find typically in the E92 M3 cars. What it is is a 4 liter naturally
aspirated V8 engine producing about 414 horsepower, and the really exciting part
about it is that it revs up to a whopping 8450 RPM,
making it a screamer. And that is why the next generation M3
was not welcomed as much, because enthusiasts really liked the high
revving naturally aspirated V8 sounding car that we found in the S65 engine. If
you don't know the, S65 was actually two cylinders trimmed off the E65
which basically was more or less effectively the same engine
by design as the f1 derived the sixty engine, which we're going to get to in a
second here. This engine featured some of the sync technology like the ionic
current NOx sensing technology. It utilizes the variable valve timing
through the double VANOS just as the E60 did and it has the same twelve to
one compression ratio. Same bore, same stroke, and so it is more or less, aside
from the sub system which was converted more to a wet sump system, was more or
less two cylinders, straight up the same as the e60 m5 motor. The number two
engine on my list is the M88, found in initially in the M1 super
car, the BMW super car, and then it was actually moved over, transitioned into
the very first BMW <5 super saloon car. It features a 3.5 litre
straight-six naturally aspirated engine producing up to 280 horsepower in its
better versions, and this car here was a masterpiece in terms of technology.
Certainly individual throttle bodies, and the overall design made it
almost a work of art. The M88 also produced an awesome power band that was
very engaging, and also produced of course, because it's a normally aspirated
straight-6 engine from BMW, produce some really really iconic sounds from the
exhaust. The third on my list is the S55 engine produced for the F80 / F82 cars,
which is the current M3, M4 cars. It is an inline 6-cylinder, twin turbocharged
motor of 3 litres displacement, that produces 425 horsepower and just over
400 foot-pounds of torque. It was a controversial motor at the very least
when it first came out. The horsepower numbers were only up marginally from the
S65 and enthusiasts really did not like this engine. It was not welcomed by the
BMW enthusiasts crowd, because of its turbocharged nature. Naturally it lost a
lot of its exhaust sound, and therefore wasn't initially enjoyed by a lot of
people. How it made the list is due to the simple fact that because its a
turbocharged engine, you would expect significant turbo lag, but this car
doesn't have that, and that's some of the magic in this engine. It utilizes just
the right timing, it's setup on the turbo charging and even for
a turbocharged engine it really didn't have a ton of turbo lag. It really drove
a lot more like a naturally aspirated car.
I know I've driven one of these recently, it is a spectacular car to drive, it has
a strong power band, it feels more like a small displacement V8 engine. It's strong,
it revs quite high for a turbocharged engine as well, and now I think it is
starting to grow on people, and has become a class favorite, and a lot of
people have really opened their arms to this car, making it one of the best BMW
engines in history. Now the fourth car on my list
actually happens to belong to a car that I owned, that's primarily why I bought
the car, because it is such a phenomenal engine it is the S85 motor found in the
E60 M5, and it is also found in the E63 M6. It is a 5 liter V10 motor
producing 507 brake horsepower, 383 foot-pounds of torque, and was derived by
the Williams F1 team to replicate the F1 technology. It often sounds like an F1
car especially when suited with a race exhaust, and as you wind it out closer to
the redline, it's down sounds distinctively like an F1 car. It is very
unique in a lot of ways, it has the double vanos system, it utilizes a very
high compression ratio of twelve to one, it has a high redline of 8250 rpm and has one of the tallest gear ratios, and certainly top
speeds of any saloon on the planet, making this car top out at about 205
miles per hour, and arguably one of the best, probably the best sedans, on the
planet yet. To date this is one of BMWs key cars, key engines, and will always
remain special in the BMW family of cars. Rounding off the list of the top five
best BMW engines produced of all time goes without question, the s70/2
which was utilized in the McLaren F1 supercar that car was designed and built
by Gordon Murray, who requested an engine be produced. He looked initially to Honda
for for an F1 technology-based engine that would fit his car. He was
looking for was 550 horsepower, it didn't quite work ou,t Honda didn't deliver. BMW
was called upon, BMW produced an engine that was slightly more in weight,
but bumped up and actually produced horsepower of 627 horsepower. Exceeding
the expectation by more than 70 horsepower by Gordon Murray. Now this
engine is special because it is a 6.1 liter, naturally aspirated V12,
sixty-degree v12, utilizing individual throttle bodies, dual vanos, dry sump
system, engine block, and heads were fully aluminum. It had quad overhead
camshafts, and had a compression ratio of 11:1, making it a very
high compression ratio for a naturally aspirated car, that didn't have the
technology that, not technology that you have today. Either way it was running the
limits, its thermal limits of the engine capacity. This was easily BMWs best
attempt at a premium high-performance exotic level supercar engine, and that is
the 6.1 liter v12 engine produced for the McLaren f1.
So everybody, thanks for coming out. Mark again checking out with Exotic Car Play
Place, and we'll see on the next one. Bye bye.