Derek, the 540i seems to smoke the inside (right) rear tire every time it exits the buttonhook. Maybe that's what my car is doing when it feels like the rear wheel is hopping?
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Derek, the 540i seems to smoke the inside (right) rear tire every time it exits the buttonhook. Maybe that's what my car is doing when it feels like the rear wheel is hopping?
Good ol' open diff!! :D The 540i has 322ft-lbs of torque and when traction control is off, the torque just wants to spin that inside wheel!!
I do this all the time but I ease my throttle in so I don't waste one tire. LOL. LSD is on the list.Quote:
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He loves stepping on the car. LOL. That's how he wasted RE11 tires at $310 a pop. Funny thing is from a dig, the zhp keeps up until top of 3rd where the 540i slowly walks away. Luckily I'm lighter and out corner it ;)Quote:
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Yeah...my dad has a 540i and when I drive it, it just feel so buttery smooth at "rocketship" mode. Friends are amazed how quick a 540 is especially with that V8 growl. When my dad drives my car he thinks the 330's acceleration feels the same, if not more than his 540. It's an awesome road trip car. When I'm on the highway moving at 70MPH though...a quick WOT and you're moving into the 100+ range really quick. My little 330 wouldn't be able to keep up with that.
But I do fall asleep in the back of the E39 like a baby on road trips without the sucking the thumb part. :P
They are awesome. It is such a handsome car IMO. The reliability concerned me more than our 330s though. When I grow up I do want an m5 to tool around in though. :biggrinQuote:
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The e39 is my favorite 5 series. The one that started the whole angel eyes craze haha.
They accelerate very similar to a 330i on the freeway but once in 4th gear the 540i starts to walk away on the straight. I've sat in it while he threw the car around at the track and I must say he has to throw it around in order to get it to corner. He is good at it and it makes a nervous but exhilarating ride as a passenger. As a passenger in my car, I'm too consistent and it seems boring to them ha.
Rovert,
The videos all at the bumper position are all the same mods as far as sound/power-wise. I do tend to go a lot wider than my buddy does but I'm not sure that's always the quickest. It's definitely fun to chase him once in awhile but he sure makes my front end dirty!
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Haha...gotcha. Your car just sounds so nice and meaty...different than what mine sounds like from inside!
I have a feeling you're taking it tighter because you don't have the power to need to go that far out. The more furious the acceleration and weight...the wider line you need. I can take everything with squiggly lines with my E46...but when I drive my dad's E39, everything just seems to be a little bit wider. When I drive my mom's minivan....well all h#LL breaks loose and since it's AWD...it's pretty fun in the corners. LOL.
You're consistent with your experience and subconscious smoothness which means any panic situation on the street you'll react to in the best possible way your car can handle. :) The smoother you are the faster you are! My driving instructors pounded me on being smooth when I first learned how to drive good many many years ago. Now I can't be rough even if I try....but I can still throw my car around for style points! LOL
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One thing I do want to learn is drifting. Drifting is probably the best form of training for a spinout situation :D
It sure is...You've learned the dynamics of vehicle balance. That plays an important role in learning how to drift. Drift is not about pulling the e-brake and counter steering like so many young ones think, ending themselves on a curb or on a light post. You've got to know where your vehicles weight is going and how fast it is shifting to create that inertia to throw the vehicle's limits past the traction circle without overstepping them so much that it's 100% unrecoverable.
With your consistency I know you'd do awesome! I think that learning how to slide the rear end out is more easier with an LSD for sure. My friend's M3 can pull out of a slide really nice and smoothly. Get on the throttle and smoothly squeeze or release and you've got controllable loss of rear traction. Our open diff'ed non M's are rough! It takes a very wet/slippery surface to mask that one tire has just regained grip while the other is fighting to hold a slide. LOL. A really cool thing to try is driving a FWD car in the snow with snow tires on the front and all seasons in the back. You can just flick the steering wheel more than the rears can hold traction and you're drifting! Hit the throttle and the front will stay in front of the rear! So easy...hours of fun! Hahaha.
I remember spending time at Thunderbird Raceway in Phoenix on a skid pad using CTS sedans rigged with hydraulic training wheels:
http://imageshack.us/a/img264/7449/b...chool75oj0.jpg
Holy man that was a ride. I had way too much playing "on ice" when I was in Arizona. LOL.
The instructor had this at his control in the car:
http://imageshack.us/a/img140/1427/b...chool73rh4.jpg
Then I ended up doing this to the rear tire:
http://imageshack.us/a/img264/3773/b...chool72ng8.jpg
Can we rig something up like that for our car to play with? LOL