I have decided on a diesel but I am unsure how a big E39 530D (190 bhp ish) or the 525D (160 bhp ish) would do as a occasional drift day car for a newbie? I would be thinking of remapping/chipping but thats about it. Are they to heavy to get sliding properly and not powerful enough? or are they not bad? I have seen stuff on youtube in the wet and snow just nothing in the dry???? Any advice would be good. Cheers
I am needing something that does half decent mpg (at least 30mpg combined) as I travel about 40 miles daily but want to attend the occasional drift day and not look a knob lol I am looking into petrol or diesel models that can do the job but not come across alot tbh.
530d manual if you want a diesel, not to commen and will more then likely feel like an oil tanker drifting. a 325/328 will do 30mpg driving normally, far more capable car easy to tune and lots of parts
You get about 50bhp and 70lbft from a remap on a 530D IIRC, and with a few more bolt-on tweaks people have seen 350bhp and 500lbft. Plenty. Jeek and others drift E39s no bother, not diesels, but so what.
If anything diesels are better than petrol for drifting because of the buckets of wheel spinning torques you have low down, just use a higher gear than normal n skid away!
Cheers guys....is there any truth to them eating clutches more than petrols due to the torque? I don't get what the 'big lol' means?
speak to rossco, hes building an e34 525td, not much power but hes managed to up the boost and apparently its mental now....lol oh and it skidded fine before he upped the boost...even if it was like the titanic
there was a 330d i saw few months ago for sale in poland! it was well setup for drifting and push over 400bhp ) amazing i'd love to have one like that! it had the strongest l6 diesel engine from bmw and some bigger turbo and other stuff over 400bhp, low fuel consumption & well setup = win
they drift shit, maybe if that engine was in smaller car then maybe but e39 530d 525d weight 1700kg so guess what you can do with that mass, fucking hell wonder why people want to have one car for everything even for drifting and economy driving lol or economy drifting - its not going to happen, why you not convert prius for RWD that will be doing 50mpg while sideways lol
Iv got a 530d for a daily, it's great for my budget good looking, comfy and fairly cheap to run. Felt horrible when it was sideways, I wouldn't want one as a drift car, you can get a good m5 for 3.5k these days....
He's a beginner, he doesn't need a caged, coilovered, mega lock, 600bhp Sbody with massive tyres. It'll do the job.
A lot of your are not getting the point.....I need a good mpg car cause of my mileage but I also want something I can make go sideways....I won't be stripping it and cageing etc I will do weight saving but back seats will be staying. If anyone has any other suggestions please tell but I'm not fussed about a e36 328 or 325 etc.
MX5, cheap to buy, cheap to insure, use not that much fuel, plenty of people using them so its a known quantity and plenty of scope for development if you later want to make it a skid only car. Trust me if you try to re-write the rule book with skid cars it will break and cost a fortune. Not to mention I cant see it being the best basis for going forwards. Also with something like and MX in time if you find you like it you can buy a 530D get a trailer license and trailer and they are great tow cars.
