When we asked Marcus Olson what it’s like to drive a 800hp BMW M3 he answered, “It feels like a normal car unless you want to turn it into a death machine. I’ve driven fast cars, but this type of fast seems to bend the seat as you accelerate. Nothing is comparable.”
Marcus has been a BMW fanatic since the age of nine. His dad still uses the home garage to restore BMWs, including an ongoing ’78 E24 Alpina project imported from Germany.
Marcus’ first BMW was a yellow E36 M3 Convertible, which he owned for five years, put 170,000 miles on it, and even used it to move from Minnesota to California.
When it came time for another M, he wanted a Laguna Seca blue E46 M3 with a manual six-speed, black interior and brushed aluminum. After looking for years he happened to drive past a dealership as the exact M3 was being traded in about a mile from his house.
Having bought it, the very first thing Marcus did was install staggered 19x8.5” and 19x10.5” COR Concord wheels with barrels painted by SIK Industries in Sunnyvale, CA to match the factory Laguna Seca blue.
The freshly-painted wheels were mounted with 245/35 front and 275/30 rear Falken tires. Even though the paint is relatively fragile and needs to be looked after, he was thrilled when some Hells Angels randomly complimented the look.
Marcus figured he couldn’t do any better than the stock exterior of the E46 M3, so he made his car stand out from the crowd by investing everything he had into the suspension and engine.
The plan was to create a quarter-mile car: Everybody said a 10sec E46 couldn’t be done, but HorsepowerFreaks in Portland, OR were more then willing to prove them wrong.
Working with David Nguygen at HPF, nothing seemed impossible as they planned to transform the six-cylinder S54 engine into an 800hp monster.
The work began by fitting Darton sleeves into the cylinders for the low-compression, forged pistons on stronger rods as part of HPF’s stage three turbo kit. The S54 was then ready for the Precision T71 billet turbo that pushes through a black-anodized intercooler and color-matched blue intake manifold.
The kit also includes 1200cc injectors and uprated fuel system, a carbon intake, Okada ignition coils, stainless steel exhaust, twin HKS BOVs and a 44mm TiAL wastegate, as well as an oil scavenge pump and new wiring harness among the never-ending list of parts.
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