{"id":1923,"date":"2020-09-30T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:29:52","slug":"bmw-factory-race-diesel-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/bmw-factory-race-diesel-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Factory race diesel engine."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get a tissue and drool on&#8230; here is a M57\/306D1 factory race diesel engine from a 2006 X-raid X3 Dakar race car<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"888\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123140-1024x888.jpg\" alt=\"BMW diesel race engine from the steyr factory, Dakar, range rover campervan\" class=\"wp-image-1929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123140-1024x888.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123140-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123140-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123140.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123123-1024x721.jpg\" alt=\"BMW diesel race engine from the steyr factory, Dakar, range rover campervan\" class=\"wp-image-1928\" width=\"584\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123123-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123123-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123123-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123123.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption>Alloy rocker cover, dry sump, special diesel pump&#8230;the list of mods is endless and expensive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123212-1024x908.jpg\" alt=\"BMW massive twin turbo diesel engine manifold\" class=\"wp-image-1926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123212-1024x908.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123212-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123212-768x681.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200929_123212.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just to give you an idea just how big the big turbo is, the small turbo is roughly the same size as the standard M57 turbo!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a tissue and drool on&#8230; here is a M57\/306D1 factory race diesel engine from a 2006 X-raid X3 Dakar race car Just to give you an idea just how big the big turbo is, the small turbo is roughly the same size as the standard M57 turbo!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dakar-tough","category-from-the-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}