It's time to meet the predecessor to many of today's modern BMW performance cars.
is the ancestor of all modern BMW performance cars, but there's always room for improvement. Dorian Hicklin tastefully restomodded this 1973 example and recently brought it along to Jay Leno's Garage.
The 2.0-liter inline-4 was bored out, received new carburetors, a more aggressive camshaft, heavy duty lifter springs and valves, and an Alpina exhaust system. Hicklin told Leno that he didn't want to go too crazy with the modifications, but still estimates an output of between 150 and 160 hp . That's a healthy increase over the roughly 100 hp of the stock version.
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