Car Spotlight>> Team Edlinger E30 Hillclimb Special

After reading some of the comments on this feature (yes I do read all of your comments). Jacek pointed me into the direction of this awesome Hillclimb car. I must say I was very impressed by this car and even more so after seeing this video. The car belongs to Team Edlinger and has been build by Koppe Engineering in Austria.

The base car is a BMW E30, but as you can see it has been transformed into a formidable racecar.

The aero modifications are insane and remind me of the DTM cars we see nowadays. Maybe it's because the driver Erich Edlinger is a former DTM driver. The entire bodykit has been designed with speed in mind. When climbing up a hill in car like this you need all the downforce you can get.

The rear of the car is dominated by this enormous wing.

The power source is a bit special, too bad that this was the only good picture that I could find. It is powered by a 3.5 liter V8 from a Indy Racing League car. It puts out 530bhp at 11.000rpm, yep that's right. The engine has been mated to a F1 six speed gearbox that was used in a car driven by Alain Prost. That combined with the amazing low weight of the car, 800kg, it is capable of amazing things.

Have you ever seen a interior this clean, especially considering this is a racecar.

The car runs thanks to a Motec management system.

Another great shot of the car running uphill, and just because it's so cool here is another video for you to enjoy.

Unfortunately after looking for more videos I came across this one, in which you will see that the car has been totaled after it burned down in the FIA historic Hillclimb in Sternbeck. A very sad ending of this amazing car. I really hope that the team is able to rebuild the car and will continue to attack the hills.

-Jeroen Willemsen

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1

That is a great example, nice work.

That must be super fresh especially since it's spotless and a hill-climber.

2

Here is another thing you have to post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zAFoklUr0

3

Oh my ... a video would be sweet, I wanna hear that thing!

I mean...a SPEEDHUNTERS video!!!!!

4

That's f...ing wild!!!

5

Sounds insane!! love it!





If you DO read all the posts you should check out this showpleaser..



Old vids from homepage: http://vsmotor.no/filmer.html



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AAN9CyJWUg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O473s7eSq1g&feature=related



6

That is a great car! Koppe Engineering builds some great stuff, and even built the Lamborghini GT3 engines we used in British GT last season. More wild hillclimb cars! Namely the blue and white E36 M3 from Germany I believe. Its about as ridiculous as this

7

great post!

8

OMG!!! I have seen this car all over the web but leave it to speedhunters to feature it correctly!! Way to go! officially my favorite car blog :)

9

wow thought this car had square lights from a sh!tty video haha. now that ive seen better pictures and got some facts about it im in love haha. only if it was black...

11

Its Sternberk, not Sternbeck.

12

hey didnt this car crash and catch on fire?

13

man im dumb nevermind

14

Thank you for this post. The pictures say it all :D (pictures + 2 numbers hp and kg ;-))

Just one thing, it's a a gearbox from Prost Grand Prix team (in F1 from 1997 till 2001), not from a car driven by Alain Prost.

15

That yellow one is clean and really ....." special " , but at my eyes , and i guess i'm not the only one , if you want to speak about BMWs and hillclimb , you just can't ignore Georg Plasa's monster !

I've never seen anything better ( and trust me ,i've seen a lot ! ).

The man designed his car , buid it and drive to many victories and podiums on the best Eurpean hillclimb races.

Be ready to cry a little bit , human reflex...:D)))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fth3QyRkxes

16

Markus beat me to it. That Judd powered BMW is simply amazing.

17

Talking of amazing BMW builds, here's another one:



http://www.bmw2002.co.uk/cotm/cotm_jun_07.html

18

Anyone have any idea what those wheels are? Almost look like old Enkei's, but with a way deeper dish...

19

Interior looks like a showroom!

20

Enkei's ? I see BBS e50 here , sure at 99.99%

24

IRL engine with F1 gearbox in an E30 - WIN!

25

that last picture would be an awesome desktop

26

so which came first... these colors or the Krohn colors?



haha

27

in deed the car is "dead" at the moment it would bee awesome to see it again, but i think the driver after the crash announced the end of is career...

28

woah! best e30 ever

29

530hp and still on four lug wheels. I found that funny.

30

absolutely nuts!

31

I want that interior. Super. Wheels are SSR Reverse Mesh. JDM y'all. LOL

32

Just a few more pics from ECCE Homo held in Stremberk, right before the car got burnt (malfunction of fueling system ) :

































33

Oi, I just messed up the whole thing - if anyone could please edit my post...

34

damn that interior just says RACE~!!!! as simple as can be.

35

id also like to say C'MON GUISE this isn't the show us cool videos you found on youtube comment section.



UNLESS you have a video OF THE CAR BEING FEATURED. LEAVE IT OUT, ANYONE AGREE?

before this place becomes spam central.



oh and, i thought hill runs were timed, like time trial, why is that guy drifting all over the road wasting time.

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Hi guys. Well thanks for the hundreds of comments that you've been passing in my direction. The response

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