Looking for a better motor, Advice?
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Never had that issue in either my E36s, both were precise and gave great feedback.
Orly?
My graph on a stock 1995 e36 328i says otherwise.
Actually no. Late models also came with LSDs. The prefacelift 328i is the 325i, the facelift came in 1995 and the 325i was dropped and the 328i came in instead. The Sport models from 95-98/99 came either with traction control or LSD, depends on what was specced.
The non Sport models in early form came with neither an LSD or traction control. TC came in around 97 on e36s and was not bad at all.
Without TC my 328i was capable of kicking out the back and holding a slide. With TC my 318iS (only 140bhp) was capable of kicking the back out, sliding and correcting via power drop. Without TC the 318iS would kick out and hold slides despite the lack of an LSD.
I found the 318iS was actually better to slide than the 328i (this may be down to confidence though).
At 14 years old being the newest e36, the stock suspension will be past it, I know it was on my 1998 318iS.
Incorrect. Have you seen the internals of the 328i backbox?
I currently can't find an image but I know it is on e36coupe.com
The box is a maze of pipework for both tailpipes.
I agree with this though, the Sport is the one to have unless you know your way around the cars and can/want to retrofit parts.
You just proved yourself wrong with that dyno plot. The engine revs to 6500 but is dead after 5000. With an M50B25 manifold on it, it pulls hard all the way to the limiter, totally different character.
The steering thing I'm not wrong about, driven a few of these and they are all the same, even ones with brand new wishbones, poly bushes and coilovers.
I'm not wrong about the LSD, my 328i is pre-facelift so they do exist and these are the ones with LSD. I think you will find there are no facelift models with LSD, all had ASC.
I've driven the ASC model and it is pony, only way to drift it is to go in fast, use weight transfer and pray. No good for a cheeky roundabout skid.
The steering thing I'm not wrong about, driven a few of these and they are all the same, even ones with brand new wishbones, poly bushes and coilovers.
I'm not wrong about the LSD, my 328i is pre-facelift so they do exist and these are the ones with LSD. I think you will find there are no facelift models with LSD, all had ASC.
I've driven the ASC model and it is pony, only way to drift it is to go in fast, use weight transfer and pray. No good for a cheeky roundabout skid.
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Most cars level off on torque and power high up in the rev range so it's pretty much a standard thing. The way you described, there would be a massive drop in torque.
You're wrong. E36 was facelifted in 1995, which is the correct facelift. This is when they changed the engines from the 2.5 to the 2.8 and the 318iS engines too, along with looks.
In ~1997 they revised the cars to have LSD or ASC, you can get 98/99 cars with LSD and no ASC.
Well you aren't that good at unsticking the rears then. As I say I easily unstuck sticky rubber on the 318iS at low speeds whenever I fancied, ASC on or not.
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Just lol
Fiesta ST? Nippy, not too stiff, lots of fun, looks great, lot bigger inside than some would think, very cheap to buy and run. (be cheaper to run than a e36 anyway)
Doesn't relate to a Beemer in any way, but at least u don't have to worry about coming back to the car to find someone has chucked a mattress on top of it, skip on wheels
... But this is coming from someone who doesn't like e36 bmws at all.
Doesn't relate to a Beemer in any way, but at least u don't have to worry about coming back to the car to find someone has chucked a mattress on top of it, skip on wheels
... But this is coming from someone who doesn't like e36 bmws at all.tbh whats the point? surely it eats tyres. If I use my gti-6s SICK cornering abilities to any amount it starts to say bye bye to sidewalls on any decent tyre and im not breaking traction. So purposely spinning the tyres whiole cornering surely eats the tyres dead. I only use michelins so its not terrible tyres at fault, although I do need a suspension refresh (Bought all the trick bits just need to book time off to put them on.)
As they're so much newer and a Ford for repair costs then it certainly wouldn't be a bad idea for the OP to consider something like the Fiesta ST. Doesn't seem to be the kind of thing he's looking for though.
There's something quite pleasurable about driving a skip on wheels though
There's something quite pleasurable about driving a skip on wheels though
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The 147 wont be quick enough
156 GTA would be a cracking car for someone who was
a) Brave / Daft (take your pick - my 2.0 156 was fine though) enough
b) not working part time and had the funds to maintain it properly
I had a 147 GTA for a day what a brilliant little motor that was
For somebody who has only ever owned a 1.3 Fiesta? Heck a milk float would offer a performance upgrade to one of those.
This combined with the fact he only works part time at Uni means that really 90% of the cars in this thread are masisvely OTT and not even needed.
The guy could buy a 2 litre Focus, run it comfortable and think he's driving a rocketship after the 54bhp Fiesta he has now.
There is simply no need to buy a millstone to hang around your neck, which is exactly what a performance car is when you are at Uni working 2 days a week.