From Scrapyard Sedan to a 1200bhp Street-Legal Drift Machine
In short: Watch how a standard 1995 BMW 325 was stripped to its bare essentials and rebuilt into a high-powered go-kart. This video explores the engineering behind a build that balances extreme horsepower with street legality.
Owner Carl Balzer transformed a once-dignified German sedan into a radical custom vehicle. The build features a massively turbocharged LS engine producing 1200bhp, housed under a chassis that lacks a traditional bonnet. To manage this power, the car utilizes a differential sourced from an old M5, making it a specialized drift machine.
The video features Top Gear's Tuning Correspondent, Rob Dahm, who tests the vehicle's limits to see how it handles such extreme specifications in a compact, go-kart-style form factor.
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