Performance BMW — September 2017

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here’s nothing that gets our

blood fl owing quite like a big

power E30. Not just because it’s

an E30, which everyone loves,

and it has lots of power, which

everyone also loves, but because it’s taking

such an unassuming car and absolutely

transforming it, taking it so far beyond

its original form and being able to face

the challenges that comes with building

something like that. Not only does it take

skill to build a car like this, it takes skill

to drive it, too; E30s can be a bit wayward

and tail-happy anyway if you’re a bit

overzealous with the throttle, so once you

start getting some seriously big numbers

into one, you’re going to have quite a wild

machine on your hands. It’s this raw, back-

to-basics interaction between driver and

machine that’s just one of the reasons why

so many people are more than happy to say

no to being sensible and say yes to building

a monster E30.

Perttu Sikanen is one such man and

it will be no surprise at all to learn that

he comes from Finland, because Nordic

countries and crazy turbo BMWs go

together like strawberries and cream, and

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