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Featured Supercharged Build of May 2025

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As spring moves slowly towards a warm summer, the month of May is here and with it comes another Featured Build of the month!

Today we present a well kept Supercharged E34 in Alpine White! This car belongs to Charlie Pearce from the UK and he supercharged it with the Hyde Motor Works a V3.62 Supercharger Kit. Seeing close to some 8PSI with an Air to Air intercooler, this car has a custom ECU setup, M50 Manifold as well as some other goodies.

E34 Supercharged Hyde Motor Works V3.62

The owner of this beautiful, Charlie sent us some details and here is his story,

“I decided to supercharge my E34 as I wanted to gain some power while retaining the original motor. I liked the idea of a supercharger kit, where everything was ready to bolt straight into the car without any major modifications being made. When I searched for supercharger kits for M50’s online, there was only one company which provided such kits, which was hyde motor works. Searching through the different available kits I decided on the V3.62. This kit seemed ideal as the eaton M62 was accessible to me, and it allowed me to run a supercharger at a boost pressure safe for a completely standard motor.“

Charlie further documents his build and installation process,

“As for the build itself it was very simple, the instructions easy to follow and everything fitted very well. The main challenge I came across while completing the build was finding space to mount an intercooler on the E34.

I ended up having to cut holes in the radiator supports in order to fit the pipework to and from the intercooler. Running the boost and intake piping was relatively simple, I did this with silicone couplers and in the future plan to upgrade to aluminium hard pipes. To compliment the V3.62 kit I purchased the 60mm reduced pulley which should see me to 8psi with an intercooler. I had access to a m50b25 intake manifold and throttle body, so I put this onto the car too in hope of some more air flow. For fueling I used the tre performance 440cc injectors from hyde and a walbro 255 pump. For engine management I’m using ecu master emu classic, with a m50 adaptor. Im going to have the car tuned in april, My goal is to see 250bhp.“

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Featured Supercharged Build of March 2025

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We start spring with a featured build, this torques E36 build with the Rocket Bunny body kit returns to the spotlight; and this time it’s featuring the the Hyde Motor Works Flagship M1 REV 2 Supercharger kit. 

The build was done by Preston Prentis from California, United States. This setup now capable of up to 45PSI also uses the Hyde Motor Works Air to Air Intercooler with a stock supercharger pulley. The boost is limited / regulated to be under 9PSI on the stock BMW M52 Engine. 

Preston, better known as Ory Hara, is an auto enthusiast and with his own YouTube Channel and Instagram Page where he likes to post videos and pictures covering his car builds as well as performance parts. In mid 2022 Preston had finished his first ever Supercharged BMW build that was Featured by us in December of the same year.

The following year he decided it was time for some more power and became applied with us to become a brand ambassador and got himself the flagship M1 REV 2 Supercharger Kit. The second iteration of his Supercharged torques E36 was finished in fall of 2024. He considers it a build that is constantly being upgraded.

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Featured Supercharged Build of August 2023

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This month’s Featured Build takes us to Calgary in Alberta, Canada! This wonderful 1995 BMW E36 Supercharged 318Ti was built by Mathew Schmor. Mat first reached out to us earlier this year, asking us of his intent to supercharge the stock 4 Cylinder BMW M42/M44 engine using the M45 supercharger found in the Mini Cooper.

We quickly settled on a V4 M.O.A.B. 500 Kit, which is based on the AMR 500 supercharger, as the WMD 45 kit that supports the M45 supercharger was not yet ready. The M.O.A.B. 500 kit produces just under 5 PSI of boost which translates an additional 40-50HP + to the stock engine. For a 4 Cylinder BMW engine such as the M44B19 or the M42b18, which hovers around the sub 150HP mark, this pushes it to the level of the 6 Cylinder variants nearing 200HP’s with a more aggressive power band.

“Well we had a successful Saturday morning including some challenges. AMR 500 is fully operational with 4 pounds of boost recorded. We did some short test pulls mainly rolling from 2000 rpm to 5800-6000 rpm second gear shifting into 3rd.

As mentioned before we live pretty high. This set up at Sea Level would probably be reaching closer to 5 pounds of boost.
Consistency hitting 4 lbs of boost. Closer to sea level this unit would really be something.

In reality I am hitting about 2.5 lbs of boost above stock and it is still making the car way more fun to drive and the noises make me grin.”  – Mat

The car has been to the European Car show in Calgary, and the build was well documented on the 318Ti Forums.

For those interested in seeing a few videos, we have put up a small compilation with clips from Mat.

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