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Fear the Low Thing in Las Vegas

It’s the nest of gleaming vipers that does it.

Wandering the halls of SEMA it’s easy to become overwhelmed, because the overall standard of quality among the hundreds upon hundreds of fresh project builds is just so ridiculously high; you’ll spy something that would easily scoop Car-of-the-Show at Players or Ultimate Stance, then Midge will go scampering off to the next hall because he’s spied something even better, before Jules drags everyone back as he’s found a car that’s properly next-level. It’s hard to take it all in. But the engine bay of this E30, that’s something which stopped us all in our tracks. Just look at those shimmering silver pipes, writhing and undulating like a clutch of malevolent serpents. The fact that this custom 8-into-1 system makes the small-block Chevy LS3 howl like a 1980s F1 car makes it doubly jaw-dropping. Oh yeah, there’s a V8 in there. And a custom widebody kit from Insta-legend design hero The Kyza. And…

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